Intramural leaders interested in starting or improving an intramural program in any school setting will find the most practical and easy-to-use information in Intramural Recreation: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating an Effective Program. This must-have guide comes complete with ready-made checklists and forms, a tournament selection guide, sample budgets, planning calendars, and numerous creative promotional ideas, making it an excellent resource for physical education teachers or other recreation leaders at any level—from elementary school settings to university environments.
Author John Byl, PhD, a physical education teacher and professor with more than 20 years of experience, takes an organized and logical approach to programming throughout the text, guiding readers step by step through every component of effective intramural planning and implementation. Using pedagogical aids such as chapter objectives, key terms, chapter summary exercises, and a glossary, the textbook promotes learning and retention and leaves readers with a comprehensive intramural handbook when all is read and done.
The three-part text includes these features: - Numerous creative promotional and award ideas—from banquets to seasonal activities—that are virtually guaranteed to spur or heighten interest and participation in intramurals
-Extensive discussion of key details in policy, budgeting, planning, promotion, management, administration, and evaluation to help any intramural leader operate any type of program
-Variations on traditional intramural games and activities, including different rules and equipment, that will level the playing field for program participants
-Practitioner perspectives from leaders in the intramural field, giving readers examples of tested methods that work
Part I, “The Idea,” helps readers determine what they want their intramural program to be. Covering a range of topics from the history of intramurals to the benefits of participation, this section leads readers through the process of developing a clearly written mission statement for their program.
Part II, “The Plan,” focuses on the details—everything a reader needs to know about planning an effective intramural program. Chapters help define program structure and leadership requirements as well as develop policies that make intramural programs fair and safe for everyone involved.
Part III, “The Program,” examines program implementation and evaluation, guiding readers through the process of creating the program envisioned and planned in parts I and II. The final chapter helps readers construct a comprehensive intramural handbook.
The author's tried and true techniques and tips make this text an absolute must-have for anyone interested in starting or improving an intramural program in any school setting—from a grade school with virtually no budget to a well-financed, multi-staff university.

Intramural Recreation: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating an Effective Program

Byl, John

Sports & Outdoors

Human Kinetics

The challenges of school can be stressful for children. That's why games are an important part of each school day. They're an excellent way to help students “chill out”—that is, when the games are chosen and taught well. Co-Ed Recreational Games provides you with more than 200 fun games that help students drop their inhibitions, put aside their worries, and just play! 
This easy-to-use book features games that accommodate students of all ages and skill levels so that everyone can enjoy participating. They help students get acquainted, foster camaraderie and cooperation, and maximize time spent being physically active. Developed by a physical education teacher with more than 20 years of experience, the games run the gamut from icebreakers and traditional games to familiar games with a unique twist, like “scooter basketball.”
The format of the book makes the games easy to present for new or veteran teachers. Each game comes with a consistent guide to implementation that includes the following: 
 -Number of participants
-Age level
-Recommended equipment
-Setup
-How to play
-Safety considerations
-Tips for teaching and organizing the games 
A handy Game Finder grid enables you to quickly locate and select appropriate games based on the number and ages of participants and the facility and equipment available. You'll also find a Game Generator that walks you step by step through the process of creating entirely new games on your own. 
Co-Ed Recreational Games can help you turn your class into the most enjoyable part of the day by creating a fun environment where kids can forget about the tensions of school.

Co-Ed Recreational Games

Until now, warming up and cooling down have been seen as drudgery—a boring start to a game or class. But not anymore.
101 Fun Warm-Up and Cool-Down Games provides the antidote to the age-old warm-up and cool-down routines of jogging and stretching. When students take part in these games, they will be fully engaged, having fun, and effectively preparing their minds and bodies for the game or activity that lies ahead.
This innovative book provides complete information for implementing 101 core games:
-The theory behind warm-ups and cool-downs (why they're important and what they should consist of) 
-41 fun games that can be used in a variety of situations
-60 sport-specific games in 7 sports (badminton, baseball, basketball, football, hockey, soccer, and volleyball)
-113 variations of the core games to help leaders shape the activities to their group's needs
-An easy-to-follow format with illustrations for the more complicated games to ensure proper setup and understanding of the game
-A game finder to help leaders easily locate games and determine which are suited to their needs
The game descriptions include group size, age, and skill level, making it easy to find the game that's just right for your group. They also can be used as stand-alone activities that promote fitness and fun. And the sport-specific games help kids warm up while working with the ball or equipment that they'll use in their games.
The variety of games, the sport-specific applications, the adaptability to different groups, and the multiple uses of the games make this book a valuable resource for any leader working with students or athletes. The illustrations and easy-to-use format make it straightforward and reader-friendly. These games are so engaging that students and athletes will hardly know they're warming up or cooling down. Come game time, they'll be charged up and ready to go. And after the game, they won't mind cooling down.

101 Fun Warm-Up and Cool-Down Games

If you have ever looked for a collection of great schedules and brackets that can be easily tailored to your events, then look no further—Organizing Successful Tournaments is the one resource that will put an end to your search!
Whether you are running a three-team league, a huge tournament, or anything in between, the most competitive and fair schedule or bracket is at your fingertips in this comprehensive package. More than 1,000 Microsoft Word templates provide the framework for virtually any tournament format and are programmed to automatically create draw sheets for competitions based on your input of divisions, seeds, locations, dates, and times.
Every major type of competition—single elimination, double elimination, multilevel, round robin, ladder, pyramid, and level rotation—is thoroughly explained to help you determine the type that best suits your needs. You'll also find information on assigning seeds, awarding byes, and establishing proper tiebreaking procedures. With Organizing Successful Tournaments, you will enjoy the event as much as the competitors will.

Organizing Successful Tournaments - 3rd Edition

Business & Money

Industries

Most Christian college instructors have taught health and wellness from books that are not God-centered, simply because they have had no choice. Thanks to the development of Christian Paths to Health and Wellness, instructors can empower students to take responsibility and initiative for their own health, fitness, and wellness as part of their daily lives—while offering that instruction in a Christian context. 
Driven by 1 Corinthians 3:16 (“Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?”), this practical text is based on sound, cutting-edge scientific research and Christian principles. As such, it provides an exciting new approach to teaching health and wellness to help meet part of the Christian college mission. Students will glean these benefits from the text: 
-A solid foundation in health and wellness theory and research 
-Multiple Christian perspectives that create a balanced approach to health and wellness across a broad spectrum of Christian beliefs
-Study aids, including vocabulary lists, glossary definitions, chapter-opening objectives, and chapter-ending questions, which foster learning and application of the material 
In addition, Christian Paths to Health and Wellness comes with many instructional aids that are free to course adopters, including Web support with sample course syllabi, a presentation package, and a test package. These aids will help instructors streamline their preparation time while teaching and managing their courses.
Written by six contributing experts and edited by two highly respected Christian college instructors, this book stems from the contributors' own experiences in meeting the challenges of teaching in today's Christian colleges. It includes point/counterpoint discussions examining issues students face today, and it provides hope, practical tools and methods for change, and a comprehensiveness that enables students to make gradual and significant permanent change through the wisdom of education and the power of the Holy Spirit.
The book focuses on four major themes: how we are made, how we are made to move, how we are to be nourished, and how we are to behave in restful ways. In part I, students are introduced to biblical reasons to value their wellness and examine God's purpose and their own life's mission. They explore body image, eating disorders, and weight management in part II. In part III, students learn about the basics of fitness, including cardiorespiratory, muscular, and flexibility assessment and training. Part IV focuses on nutritional and emotional health and wellness and also looks at wellness as it relates to sleep habits and personal relationships. Part V encourages students to develop a comprehensive strategy to maintain personal wellness in a relationship with God.
Through Christian Paths to Health and Wellness, students will learn about and practice making choices that have positive effects on their lifelong fitness and wellness. Students will become aware of physical wellness issues and develop a passion for proactive and permanent lifestyle changes. And they will do it all with a God-centered approach.

Christian Paths to Health and Wellness

WALTERS, PETER

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Chicken and Noodle Games: 141 Fun Activities With Innovative Equipment will help you
-offer a variety of games that will keep everyone participating, 
-provide inclusive and nontraditional games in which no player starts with an advantage, 
-adapt games to various settings and occasions, and 
-increase players' physical activity. 
Take this book, add rubber chickens, pool noodles, tennis balls, sponges, and bolts, sprinkle in kids, and what do you get? A recipe for pure, unadulterated—and wacky—fun!
Written by game masters John Byl, Herwig Baldauf, Pat Doyle, and Andy Raithby; Chicken and Noodle Games: 141 Fun Activities With Innovative Equipment is your ticket to promoting fun and active participation for all involved. The games use easy-to-find equipment in nontraditional ways—which means no player will start with an advantage. In addition, the equipment is inexpensive and allows you to provide a diverse selection of innovative games for very little money. The unusual equipment will capture participants' interests, and the fun games in this book will keep them coming back for more. And some games call for no equipment at all.
The games require little organization and provide great opportunities to include children of all ages and abilities. The activities present fun motivators for increasing physical activity, and they help release tension and excessive energy, assist with personal self-control, and encourage social growth. They also
-enhance perceptual motor development;
-assist with focus, attention span, concentration, and perseverance;
-develop the thinking process; and
-enhance physical fitness and physical abilities.
The games are divided into seven categories: games using rubber chickens, foam pool noodles, and tennis balls; games of tag and rock, paper, scissors; games with equipment bought at dollar stores; and games with equipment bought at hardware stores. Games are laid out for you to quickly grasp the game play and facilitate the game with a minimum of preparation time. Each game includes an objective, the number of players and type of equipment needed, setup, and rules. Many games come with variations to make them more suitable for your group—and the authors encourage adults and children to come up with their own variations as well.
Chicken and Noodle Games will satisfy your appetite for new, different, and definitely fun games using ordinary and unusual equipment in extraordinary ways. In doing so, it offers oodles of choices for kids of all abilities to have fun while increasing their physical activity. When they take part in these games, kids are actively engaged and developing both physically and mentally. But if you ask them about it, they'll just say they're having fun.

Chicken and Noodle Games: 141 Fun Activities With Innovative Equipment

Baldauf, Herwig

Doyle, Pat

Raithby, Andy

Christian Paths to Health and Wellness Presentation Package

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

It makes sense: Kids, balls, bouncing, laughter, and fun all go together. And in Having a Ball: Stability Ball Games, author John Byl shows you how to get kids bouncing, laughing, moving, and having great fun—all as they improve their fitness skills. 
Having a Ball features -73 stability ball games, with variations, that teach balance and coordination; -a great variety of challenges, races, relays, and team games for all participants; -a game finder that helps you quickly find the right activity for your group; and -games that work for youth in fitness centers, schools, park departments—wherever it is you work with kids.
The book is organized into seven chapters based on the nature of the activities and the number of players involved. There are games for partners working together to complete a challenge; for individuals, pairs, or groups to complete tasks as quickly as possible; and relays involving teams of three or four players each. There are also chase games, games for larger groups, and activities that pit two teams against each other. 
Each game lists an objective and notes the equipment, number of players, and setup required. Instructions take you sequentially through explaining the game to your players. The games come with variations, and you and your players are encouraged to add to those variations to make the games work best for your particular situation.
Whether you're using these games in a fitness center, recreation program, or school, they'll be a hit with kids because the games are a blast—and using nontraditional equipment helps to level the playing field so everyone gets to participate equally.

Having a Ball: Stability Ball Games

In his book A Brief History of Time, the famous Cambridge cosmologist Stephen Hawking held out the prospect of a complete theory of the universe by means of which we would know'why it is that we and the universe exist...then we would know the mind of God.' Christian mathematicican John Byl disagrees: 'Hawking overestimates the value of a Theory-of-Everything, while underestimating the content of God's mind.' We already have in Scripture a source of knowledge superior to all other sources and already know 'the mind of God'. so far as He has been pleased to reveal it to us. On this basis, Byl questions much of modern cosmology, including the Big-Bang theory of origins. He deals with the limitations of human knowledge, biblical teaching relevant to cosmology, the quest for extra-terrestrial intelligence, the existence of the spiritual realm, heaven, angels, life after death, and much else. Byl's approach is a refreshing counter to the dreary and ultimately meaningless outlook of modern cosmology.

God and Cosmos: A Christian View of Time, Space, and the Universe

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Banner of Truth

Christian Paths to Health and Wellness, Second Edition, offers a unique, faith-based perspective on the pursuit of wellness for body, mind, and spirit. Written for undergraduate students attending Christian universities, this updated edition also serves as a reference for anyone seeking God-pleasing guidance to make positive life changes. 
Christian Paths to Health and Wellness will help you 
 • develop cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, and flexibility; 
 • apply principles of good nutrition; 
 • manage stress and better understand other issues affecting emotional wellness; 
 • learn the importance of regular, sound sleep; and 
 • understand how to develop and maintain healthy relationships. 
 In this new edition, you’ll find the latest research on nutrition and fitness woven into an engaging narrative complemented by true stories of personal empowerment. This inspiring book will help you take charge of your health, learn about the importance of physical wellness to the whole person, and apply aspects of behavior modification in reaching your goals. 
 Like the first edition, Christian Paths to Health and Wellness, Second Edition, draws on the expertise and perspective of a team of Christian academics engaged in teaching health and wellness courses with a Christian foundation. Learning features in the text, including chapter outcomes and review questions, offer guideposts for retaining and referencing information. Application activities help you reflect on chapter content as you consider, through exercises and written reflections, how to translate what you’ve learned to your own life. “Point/counterpoint” discussions give you a forum for discussing a topic from alternative perspectives. In addition, a glossary defines new terms, which are highlighted in bold type throughout the text and included in lists of key terms in each chapter. For instructors, free access to online ancillaries, including an instructor guide, presentation package with image bank, and test package, offer comprehensive support for course delivery and assessment. 
 Psalm 119 reminds us that God’s word “is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.” In this way, the second edition of Christian Paths to Health and Wellness considers how scripture speaks about caring for your whole being and encourages you—through tools, information, and strategies—to live a focused life fixed on godly physical goals.

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Intramural Recreation: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating an Effective Program

Co-Ed Recreational Games

101 Fun Warm-Up and Cool-Down Games

Organizing Successful Tournaments - 3rd Edition

Christian Paths to Health and Wellness

Chicken and Noodle Games: 141 Fun Activities With Innovative Equipment

Christian Paths to Health and Wellness Presentation Package

Having a Ball: Stability Ball Games

God and Cosmos: A Christian View of Time, Space, and the Universe

Christian Paths to Health and Wellness