Book by Morris, G. S. Don, Stiehl, Jim

Physical Education: From Intent to Action

Morris, G.S. Don

Stiehl, Jim

Medical Books

Merrill Pub. Co

Professionals in educational and recreational settings work hard to understand and address the problems faced by underserved youth. Yet the dedicated people in these institutions are often limited in what they can achieve because they tend to remain within the confines of their own work environment rather than sharing their expertise and resources.
Instead of accepting this as an unfortunate fact of life, the coauthors of this book see the situation as an opportunity to develop an approach in which the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts. In Youth Development and Physical Activity: Linking Universities and Communities, they draw on their considerable teaching experience to present innovative new ways to serve underserved youth. 
The book describes practical strategies for breaking down the walls between universities and communities so they can combine their strengths to improve young people's lives. You'll find a wealth of guidelines for creating physical activity programs that instill a sense of social and personal responsibility, including numerous real-life examples of successful programs.
Youth Development and Physical Activity: Linking Universities and Communities is divided into four parts, each enriched with the colorful “voices” and stories of real kids and youth leaders who have put these ideas into practice: 
-Part I provides a sobering look at the challenges today's young people face and introduces positive ways to improve physical activity youth programs so they're meaningful in today's world. 
-In Part II, you'll learn how to move from “how it is” to “how it could be,” using a breakthrough model for working with kids and building programs. Here the book provides a road map that shows the way for university students and faculty to connect with youth in their communities through service learning, internships, and other outreach programs
-Part III spells out how to develop a variety of proven youth physical activity programs—from adventure experiences and Coaching Clubs to mentoring and teen parent programs. You'll find many great ideas that work in virtually any setting, including public schools, alternative schools, recreation programs, youth service groups, and social agencies. 
-Part IV provides a variety of helpful tools for evaluating programs and improving outcomes, as well as insights on how professionals can develop the skills they need to respond to the changing demands on youth leaders. 
Written by professionals with a combined 70 years of experience working with underserved youth, this book is must reading for both professionals and organizations practicing in a world where youth too often slip through the cracks. It provides a clear and hopeful framework for improving the lives of kids as well as the communities in which they live.

Youth Development & Physical Activity: Linking Univ./Communities

Hellison, Don

Cutforth, Nicholas

Kallusky, James

Martinek, Thomas

Parker,Melissa

Sports & Outdoors

Human Kinetics

Climbing Walls is the complete guide for instructors, administrators, and anyone responsible for supervising an indoor climbing wall in their recreation center, school or university, camp, or community setting. Instructors and administrators can use this book to
- design and select equipment options for climbing walls based on up-to-date industry standards and guidelines;
- customize their walls to accommodate the needs of their sites or situations;
- operate and maintain their walls;
- develop and implement operating procedures; and
- teach basic climbing skills and 15 activities and games to diverse populations.
Climbing Walls also provides program leaders with information they can use to advocate for a climbing wall program: detailed descriptions of the health and social benefits of climbing wall programs and a wealth of reproducible forms that make it easy to administer the program for participants of all ages.
Instructors get information on responsibilities, equipment, and planning and supervising activities for a diverse clientele. Administrators receive not only the current industry standards and details about designing a spectrum of walls, but also practical guidance on cost considerations, administrators' responsibilities, staff training and supervision, and risk-management plans. 
Wall climbing is a thrilling fitness activity that strengthens the body, challenges the mind, and lifts the spirit. Climbing Walls provides instructors and administrators with all the information they need to create their own climbing wall programs and challenge participants.

Climbing Walls: A Complete Guide

Ramsey, Tim

Mountaineering

This book will help you get participants enthused about physical activity by giving them ownership. Teaching Physical Activity: Change, Challenge, and Choice guides you in designing activities and games through which you can meet your objectives while engaging all the participants in your class or group.
You engage all participants by creating healthy learning climates where everyone feels safe, capable, successful, motivated, and connected to others, and where they have a sense of ownership in the activities. And that's exactly what Teaching Physical Activity: Change, Challenge, and Choice helps you do. That ownership comes from the choices that participants make: First, participants choose from challenges that you offer them, which allow them some self-directed behavior. Second, at a more advanced level, participants can choose among options they generate themselves, imparting a greater sense of autonomy—and with it, a willingness to participate in a more personal and appropriate manner. 
These choices result in changes—changes to games and activities and changes in the ways participants view being physically active. Kids will no longer fear being embarrassed in front of their peers; instead, they will welcome the challenges of a safe and fun learning environment and become more fully engaged. These ideas of choice and change are key ingredients in this book.
Other key ingredients include 
-foundational material on teaching activities and games, -45 ready-to-use games and activities to get you started right away, and -numerous tips, ideas, and strategies to help you fully understand and implement this approach.
Part I lays a foundation for changing activities in ways that afford proper challenges to participants. It focuses on ways to maximize participation by relating participants' needs to the program goals, and it explores strategies for introducing change, challenge, and choice into your program. It also guides you in the type of communication necessary for successful implementation, and it details the steps involved in sharing decision making with participants. Part II includes 45 activities that feature change, challenge, and choice strategies you can apply with your participants. The activities span a variety of physical activity pursuits, such as dance, adventure, and sports.
Written by the leaders of the “changing kids' games” movement, Teaching Physical Activity: Change, Challenge, and Choice will help you engage all the participants under your charge, regardless of their levels of skill, fitness, and motivation. Your participants will benefit now, and the experience will pave the way for a lifetime of healthy physical activity.

Teaching Physical Activity: Change, Challenge, and Choice

Education & Teaching

Sinclair, Christina

Morris, Don

Schools & Teaching

Traversing Walls will help you
-provide core activities to physically prepare participants to climb,
-challenge participants' bodies and minds at the same time,
-select activities to meet your group's needs and levels, and
-find activities that meet NASPE standards.
Traverse wall climbing—in which most of the climbing is done horizontally—is quickly growing in popularity because it is exhilarating, challenging, and fun. Yet, specific games and activities for traverse walls have been hard to find—until now.
Traversing Walls provides you with 68 engaging activities that you can use to implement traverse wall climbing. Included are these features:
-Core strength activities to help kids physically prepare to climb
-Dome cone and other lead-up activities to keep kids active even when they're not climbing
-Traverse wall activities with cross-curricular connections that will stimulate your participants' bodies and minds at the same time—so the kids are thinking and learning while having fun on the wall
The authors provide numerous suggestions for expanding on the games and ideas presented in the book, too. In fact, virtually any intellectual ability, academic task, popular game, or equipment can be incorporated into climbing activities, and many teachers have combined the activities with other subject matter, such as math and geography.
The book contains dozens of activities and variations, including well-known games and those that incorporate numbers, letters, math, and words. Some games reinforce health concepts, such as nutrition and the MyPyramid food chart, muscles and exercise, human body systems (muscles and organs), human skeletal system, and appropriate health behaviors. All of the activities promote healthy, fun, and productive learning in which everyone can succeed. The ground-level and traverse activities will help your class meet NASPE standards
So go encourage your participants to climb the wall! They'll encounter physical and intellectual challenges along the way, gain strength and confidence as they acquire new skills, and have loads of fun that is connected to learning.

Traversing Walls: 68 Activities On and Off the Wall

Business & Money

Chase, Dan

Industries

The first edition of Changing Kids' Games broke new ground-it changed attitudes about physical education by showing teachers how to modify games to suit all children's developmental needs. Kids love it. Teachers know it works. Now, the new edition of this cutting-edge guide keeps its basic approach while providing updated content to meet the needs of today's physical education classes.This expertly illustrated, easy-to-follow book helps you select, plan, modify, present, and evaluate movement games to fit your purposes, values, teaching styles, and resources. But most important, it helps you meet the needs, abilities, and interests of your players-especially children ages 5-13.This valuable resource presents a wealth of games, all of which use movement as either the primary ingredient or motivator. The book shows you how to• recognize when it would be useful to modify a game,• customize any game to suit any group or kid in almost any situation,• develop game creation into a 3-step process that anyone can do,• create games that teach specific skills, and• teach sports by analyzing the skills needed.Changing Kids' Games includes 20 tables that readers can use to simplify the process of games analysis and modification. It also describes 5 tools you can use to help students learn to modify games.Part One outlines step-by-step procedures for modifying games and shows how to involve others in games-changing efforts. It also presents the "Games for Understanding" approach, which uses game strategy analysis to motivate kids to master required skills. This part includes practice games that illustrate how to develop the Games for Understanding method.Part Two offers 39 more games and possible variations of those games. Many new games are included in the categories of adventure games, academic games, international games, and old favorites.

Changing Kids' Games

Human Kinetics Pub

Helps physical education teachers plan, modify, present, and evaluate movement games for children of all abilities in grades K-8. Outlines step-by-step procedures for modifying games, shows how to involve others in games-changing efforts, and gives instructions on some 40 games in chapters on adventure, academic, and international games, and old favorites. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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