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A collection of resources for all areas of Physical Education from fitness to body image & self-esteem, P.E. portals to sports measurement, games to playground fun covering all levels. They should be taken in conjunction with resources found on the Health, Nutrition and Sports pages.
Remember many sites are not Australian. Check carefully to be sure they conform to Australian requirements before use, e.g. spelling, Mathematical formatting, terminology, … .
Listed individual resources are suitable for teacher use with all education levels unless specifically indicated otherwise.
Australian Sites
- 1Seven
[Move More, Eat Well]
‘1Seven program targets children 5 to 12 years old and derives its name from the call for children to participate in at least one hour of moderate to vigorous physical activity, and eat up to seven serves of fruit and vegetables every day’. - ACHPER South Australia : Links
A collection of links to bodies and activities. Not restricted to South Australia. - ACHPER
Australian Council for Health, Physical Education & Recreation. Resources for Physical Education, Health, Dance, etc.. Fee-based. Relates to the curriculum, provides detailed assistance.
Highly recommended. - Aussport
Information on Australian sporting organisations, sporting business, businesses linked to sport. - Centre for Health Promotion
Promotes children’s health in school communities. Some are specifically South Australian. Asthma, nutrition, healthy canteens, active living, professional development, sun protection, more.
Previously listed as Children’s Health Development Foundation. - Completely Gorgeous
Looks at body image and self-esteem. Activities, information, teacher resources. Based on an Australian book of the same name. - Curriculum Press - Professional Resources for Teachers
Select Health & PE from the areas listed under Learning area in the top menu. Among the options are resources for Personal Growth and Life Skills. - Cyberschool - Health and Physical
Education
Annotated links for PE and Health, University of Queensland Library Cyberschool. - Ethics in Sport
‘Sport serves as a vehicle for education, health, leadership and fair play - but the fact is, that these values are not automatically transmitted in sport. It all depends how sport is managed, taught and practiced’. Australian Sports Commission. - Health, Physical and Sport Education
Resources
Victorian Education Department. - Improving your Health - Nutrition
Health NSW. Links to information as diverse as Healthy School Canteens and Quick Meals for Kooris. - Kew Volleyball
Useful for those in the relevant Melbourne area. The largest volleyball association in Australia. - Learning Technologies and …
The Health & Physical Education Learning Area. West Australian DET. ‘Investigates and illustrates the use of learning technologies in enhancing teaching and learning in the Health & Physical Education Learning Area’. Outcomes, integration of learning technologies, how to use them. - Let’s Get Physical
‘Confused about how much exercise you really need. ABC Health Matters sets the record straight’. - Measurement in Sport
Tabbed directories on key text, glossary, activities, further reading, links. Printer friendly version. Nova Science, Academy of Australian Science. - Narcotics Anonymous
They give school presentations dealing with drugs and their dangers. Links to other groups within their organisation. - National Heart Foundation
Information on being healthy with a healthy heart. Information for planning health lessons. - New Safety Guidelines for
Children and Young People in Sport
‘The Australian Government has moved to make sport safer for young Australians with the launch of new national guidelines to promote safety in sport and a national sport injury prevention program’. - School Sport Australia
‘The organisation and conduct of a broad range of school sporting programs for all students commensurate with their age and ability’. Find what they do, how they do it, what results from this. - Smartplay
‘South Australian initiative to educate children playing sport, to warm up, gear up and drink up’. Designed to keep them safe and healthy. Information for parents, students, teachers, coaches. Available Nationally, with links to all states. - The Human Race
South Australian site suitable for all but especially families and, more particularly, those in Adelaide. - Veto Sports
Coaching material, resources for all aspects of football, equipment, resources to clothing supplies. - Wellbeing Plan for Children
‘Developed by CSIRO to help parents make healthy eating and physical activity a higher priority for families’. 10 sections included. - Working Wonders
Royal Children’s Hospital, Queensland. Provides a Fit4Fun program Free to Queensland Schools. Indoor and outdoor exercises, other material. If not in Queensland you may be able to negotiate its purchase. Funds raised help children at the hospital.
Primary
Other Sites
- 13 Ways Parents Can Help Children Be More Physically Active
Article by physical educators. Common sense approach. - Ace Fitness
American Council on Fitness. Free exercises to help effective exercise. Designed to ‘create your own workout depending on the amount of time you have and the equipment available to you’. - Amanda Chambers’ Nutrition and Foods WebQuest
Webquest on nutrition and food. Everything included from the Task through standards as they develop foods for a fast-food franchise. Worth checking. - ChooseMyPlate.gov
Developed by a US government agency. Plan and tracker are designed to help attain better nutrition. Includes Health and Nutrition Information for Educators, Health & Nutrition Information for Children over Five and Preschoolers [2-5 Years] as part of their presentation.
Previously listed as MyPyramid. - Cool Food Planet
‘Nutritional information and quizzes for children and adolescents’. Section for schools & parents. Well presented. - Dole
US children’s health and nutrition site. Emphasises eating of 5-9 servings of fruit and vegetables a day. Resources in the Teacher’s section, Reference Centre, activities, more. - Field Day Activities
Running a PE Field [curriculum] Day ? PE activities successfully used for this. Each done in detail, so adopt or adapt as needed.
Primary - First Grade Plus
Resources for teaching drug education in Primary. Follow the adventures of the people from Tuckertown. - Fitstats Web
‘Easy to use and fully customizable. Designed for physical educators, school administrators, FitStats Web allows teachers, school and district administrators to review student results from anywhere using a web browser’. Fee-based, online program. - Functional Fitness Training Exercises for
Beginners
‘Learn basic functional fitness training exercises in this free video series featuring personal trainer Carey Kepler’. There are 16 videos in thye series. - Games Kids Play
‘Looking for kids games ? How about rules for playground games, verses for jump-rope rhymes, more ?’
Primary - Healthy Meals Resource System
United States Department of Agriculture. While US-based, there are sections of value, e.g., Nutrition Education, Recipes & Menu Planning, … . - Lesson Plans
Lesson plans - Pre-School, Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12. Each has annotated links providing title, grade level, description, users rating. Minor and major games. Link to other curriculum areas. Now directed to A to Z Teacher Stuff. - Ophea
‘Website with all kinds of great activities designed to teach kids games by playing games ! Allows you to search for activities based on the equipment you have, the skills you want to teach, the complexity of the game or the space you have available’.
Previously listed as PlaySport. - Physical Education : Links, Adapted
American-based. Links include Physical Activity, Government sites, Disability Culture, Resources, more. Some of assistance in Australia. - Physical Education Primary
UK site with material for use with younger children. It is Fee-based [at this time about AU$320 a year], but could be considered by a school or group. Lesson plans, activities, downloads, covers all relevant areas of physical education. Worth consideration.
Primary - Physical Education Resources
‘Content, lesson plans, information and forum for teachers of primary physical education’. From Scotland. The Content section includes a wide range of games and fitness activities, -
Physical Education Resources [pe-lessons.ch]
Lesson Plans, Skills and Games. Select Free Lessons from the menu on the Home Page, then Lessons from the menu on the next page for a significant range of material from the Swiss site. Other PE information also available on the site.
Physical Education Software
Commercial software. For Freeware, check the Education Software page.
- Movin’ On
‘Curriculum management program that provides a library of gym exercises for primary school students. Designed for specific pieces of gym equipment and grouped into individual, partner, small group exercises’. - Pajama Sam 3
- teAchnology
Shareware and commercial programs, primarily for the Mac platform.
- Physical Education Update
‘Shows you the secret tricks of the trade that help PE teachers improve sport technique, keep classes fun, jazz up lesson plans, get kids fit and much, much more ! PE Update’s condensed, illustrated article format, videos and super-fast article abstracts allow you to learn what you need’.
You need to be a member to access the materials. Membership is not Free, but is quite cheap. - Playground Fun
‘Find out how you and your children can use Playground fun as a learning tool at home or the classroom, with our articles and teaching materials’. Traditional playground games from the UK.
Primary - Preschool Physical Education [PE Central]
‘Information that should be helpful to those who are responsible for providing movement programs for young children’. Instructional videos, lesson plans, homemade equipment, articles, FAQs, books, more. - Primary Resources
British site. Warm-up activities, dance & gymnastics, games. - Reedswain
‘Soccer coaching, entertainment products at reasonable prices’. DVDs, Books, Software, Equipment. The American site, as the Australian one seems to have disappeared. - Resources
California Physical Education-Health Project. Annotated links for PE & Health, Outdoor Recreation, PE Software, PE Publishers, Health & Nutrition. Some may not be relevant to Australian. - SPORTQuest
‘Browse and search our sport-related website links, visit the Sports area to list by sport, visit the Topics area for other subject headings such as sports science, fitness, Olympic games, other non sport-specific areas of interest’. - Sports Media
Belgian site. Lesson plans [Free registration], links for sports, skills, Ask the Expert [responses and further links], general education, more. If you speak a European language you can extend your usage. - The Physical Educators’ Resource
‘Links to highly informative physical education and physical activity resources from all over the world’. Annotated links to specific sites are included in directories from Individual to Dance, Gymnastics, Outdoors, Sports/Games, Other. Within each are specific groupings. Each link clearly annotated. Canadian.