Teaching Health-Related Exercise at Key Stages 1 and 2 Book (Copyright 1997, 160 pages)
Filled with ready-to-use lesson plans and proven activity ideas, this book explains how to effectively and safely deliver the health-related exercise (HRE) component of the National Curriculum for England and Wales. Experienced physical education teachers Jo Harris and Jill Elbourn have played a key role in the success of the health-related exercise movement in Britain. Their in-service courses and resource materials have helped teachers recognize the need for HRE and learn how to teach it. In Teaching Health-Related Exercise at Key Stages 1 and 2, they share a variety of ways in which HRE can be organized and delivered within the curriculum, enabling teachers to determine which methods of delivery are most appropriate for their pupils. Teaching Health-Related Exercise at Key Stages 1 and 2 translates National Curriculum theory into practice and links its physical education and health education requirements. Covering everything from planning to assessment, this indispensable guide: addresses safety considerations for children's exercise; examines successful programs that schools have adopted for promoting exercise among their pupils; presents ideas that use simple, readily available equipment; provides detailed lesson examples that address the key issues of progression, differentiation and assessment and describes 19 practical activities that can be incorporated into health-related PE lessons. Comprehensive and easy to understand, this resource gives teachers everything they need to promote active lifestyles through the primary curriculum. About the Author Jo Harris and Jill Elbourn have played a significant role in the success of the health-related exercise movement in Britain. From 1987 to 1993, they were involved in the Health and Physical Education national project at Loughborough University, which required them to actively promote the teaching of health-related exercise in schools across the country. Since 1988, they have been delivering in-service training courses in health-related exercise for primary and secondary school teachers. Harris and Elbourn have also collaborated on several health-related exercise books and articles, including Action for Heart Health, Further Activity Ideas for Heart Health and Warming Up and Cooling Down. Harris has been a lecturer in physical education at Loughborough University since 1990. Prior to that, she was involved in teacher education in Cheltenham for two years and taught physical education and health edu