~ edition Quality Lesson Plans for Secondary Physical Education ~
second. ~ Make teaching easier and more effective with Quality Lesson Plans for Secondary Physical Education! This cookbook-style guide contains more than 150 ready-to-use lesson plans--enough for every day of the school year. ~ These classroom-tested lessons with developmentally appropriate activities enable middle school, junior high school, and high school physical educators to greatly reduce their planning time. ~ Undergraduate students in professional practice will also benefit--reduced planning time means they can concentrate on refining their teaching skills. ~ You'll find four sections in Quality Lesson Plans for Secondary Physical Education: physical fitness, major sports, minor sports and activities, and single-day lessons. ~ The fitness unit gives you a progression of lessons designed to improve cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility. ~ It includes protocols for AAHPERD's Physical Best and the Prudential Fitnessgram youth fitness tests. ~ These 12 lessons can be used as a several-week unit emphasizing fitness or can be used periodically throughout the year to maintain an ongoing commitment to fitness. ~ The major sports units include traditional activities: badminton, basketball, dance, flag football, soccer, softball, tennis, and volleyball. ~ For each you'll find 10 or 11 developmentally appropriate lessons that progress from beginning to more advanced skills. ~ The minor units include more innovative activities: bowling, floor hockey, golf, jumping rope, orienteering, pickle-ball, speedball, team handball, and ultimate frisbee. ~ Four to seven lessons for each unit give students a solid introduction to each sport or activity. ~ The single-day activities include 18 lessons perfect for rainy days or as breaks between the major and minor units. ~ Fun and challenging activities such as bocce ball, cricket, tinikling, and folk dances give students a change of pace and a brief look at alternative physical activities. ~ Each lesson includes information on the purpose of the lesson, equipment and facilities needed, appropriate warm-ups, skill cues for students, teaching cues (where appropriate), main activities, and closure. ~ All the activities in Quality Lesson Plans for Secondary Physical Education are designed to maximize students' time on task and cut down on waiting. ~ All have been tested in actual programs to ensure that they'll work well as is--no extra planning time needed! And the wide range of activities help edition; second; book; education; physical; planssecondary; lesson; quality;