Physical Education at
the High School Level
By Josh Morning and Adam Knies
Technology In Education II

• The following slides contain
information that should be
used to help teach physical
education at the high school
level. The
websites, videos, etc. have a
lot of information on
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American Alliance for Health, Physical
Education, Recreation, and Dance
(AAHPERD)
• Vision
AAHPERD envisions a society in which all
individuals enjoy an optimal quality of life
through appreciation of and participation in an
active and creative, health-promoting lifestyle.
Members of AAHPERD and its national, district,
and state associations are recognized as dynamic
role models in the realization of this desired
future. Members and staff are fully committed
to accepting responsibility for continued
determination of this future.
http://www.aahperd.org/

What Does AAHPERD Do?
• Mission is to promote and support
leadership, research, education, and best
practices in the professions that support
creative, healthy, and active lifestyles.
• National Associations are active with
students, and providing guidelines and
position papers supporting best practice
in the professions served by AAHPERD.

PE4Life
• Mission
PE4life advocates for improved
fitness, social behavior, and
learning readiness of children by
inspiring, empowering, and
educating schools and their
community partners to be
catalysts for change in advancing
quality physical education.
http://www.pe4life.org/about-us/

• This short video is a quick glance
at the ideas that PE4Life can
provide you.
http://www.pe4life.org/video.php

The Four Aspects of P.E.
• Physical
– A student who actively takes part in physical education
will develop and maintain a good health and sense of
physical fitness.
• Mental
– P.E. provides an opportunity for the students to learn
how their bodies work and why they do the functions they
do.
• Emotional
– Offers opportunities to for self-expression and
emotions, which include courage, determination, self
confidence, and self control
• Social
– Chance to develop desirable social traits that are needed
in everyday life. This include
friendliness, respect, honesty, and sportsmanship

The Importance of P.E.
• Developing one’s motor skills
– By staying active the kids build motor skills that
they can use in everyday life. Also by building
these motor skill the kids are staying in shape and
feeling good about themselves’.

The Importance of P.E.
• Fueling self-confidence
– Physical education also help with self-
confidence. By being active the body stay in
shape and give the kids the self-confidence
to do what they want to do with out
everyone looking at them.
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• Learning right and wrong with food types
– The importance of teaching students good
types of food helps them to stay activated
and to know how to stay fit by eating right.

Importance of P.E.
• Friendship
– P.E. is also a way that kids can make
friend. By making these friend the
stress of school goes down because
they have more people to talk to
about what is going on in school.

Importance of P.E.
• Hygiene is everything
– Not all class stress on this but it help
with make they get in to the habit of
making shore they are clean and fresh
everyday.
• Relieves stress
– Physical education can be a method of
stress relief from school homework,
part-time job, and peer pressures