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Building Communities Through Outdoor Recreation

How to host an outdoor festival insights. Online book in PDF with extra budget file from Sustainable Pittsburgh.

Sites

Physical Education Fun - share among areas of physical education with lesson plans, pictures of hand-made equipment, song library from a teacher in San Diego.

A teacher page from ST.JOSEPH , CORAOPOLIS , PA, presents http://members.tripod.com/igreen/index.html - More than 350 games activties and lead up team sports including seasonal activities, games of low and high organization, presentations, slideshows and classroom management techniques.

Events

Earth Day

NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH WEEK

APRIL 7 - 13, 2003, AMERICA, GET IN SHAPE FOR THE FUTURE! Promote Healthy Eating and Active Living

Led by the American Public Health Association and providing an opportunity to spotlight issues of overweight and obesity. To educate Americans about the health risks associated with the growing epidemic of obesity, and to present communities and individuals with ways to "get in shape for the future." An important component of this campaign is increasing physical fitness opportunities and providing more nutritional meals for our nation's children.

Turn Off the TV Week April 21-27, 2003

Television watching is a sedentary behavior. The more a child watches television, the greater the child's risk of becoming overweight. Limit TV viewing time (as well as time spent using the computer and playing computer games).

Virginia Parks and Recreation Society

The annual conference had a deadline for proposals of May 3, 2002. The conference is September 21-24 in Portsmouth, Va. The programs tracks are listed below. If you are interested in submitting a proposal please send me an e-mail so that I may send you the forms.

Program Tracks:

1. Program Development and Delivery -Resource building leadership development, education, problem-solving, partnerships and collaboration, strategic plans, developing community, model programs, how-to's
2. Parks, Facilities and Open Space - Conservation, stewardship programs, best practices, maintenance and operations, education, urban issues, collaborations, multiuse and special use, access
3. Current and Future Trends - Economic, demographic, health/wellness, home-based recreation, tourism, politics, lifelong learning, environment
4. Technology - Managing the workforce, network/internet security, project management, support systems, resources, communications
5. Professional Development - Communications, image development, benchmarking, research development, performance measures, college/university curriculum, policy development, certification/standards
6. Marketing - Needs assessments, program design, publicity, image development, strategic marketing plans, target markets, customer service
7. Strategies for Success - Communicating the vision, forming partnerships, expanding professional competencies, strengthening the parks and recreation ethic, demonstrating results, documenting best practices, impacting public policy, expanding resources
8. Boards, Commission and Administrative Issues - Legislative issues, resource building, foundations, succession planning, organizational culture
9. Core Competencies - Strategic Thinking, leadership, multidisciplinary skills, research, evaluation, outcome management, prevention models

Scope and sequence activities for K-5

Get Graham/Holt-Hale curriculum guide, Children Moving!

Karen Teske's Assessment Guide on PE Central has a great way to begin and simplifiy GLE's, and assessment with lots of room for your own individual priorities to be added. Use both as a core. Children Moving is through Human Kinetics, The Assessment Guide is on PE Central.