Physical Activity And Physical Education

Physical activity is important to the short term and long term health and well being of children. In the short term physical activity helps children to build muscle, develops the skeletal frame, develops the heart and lung function and helps prevent obesity. If children have enough physical activity a day which is said to be up to an hour it can help children get to sleep easier and sleep for longer periods of time. This can lead onto long term benefits as if the activity is outside it will also help to build up a good immune system so they are less

First of all, students do not have much knowledge about the different fitness components; they do not understand the relation between the fitness components and health. If students acquire the background knowledge about fitness, it could improve the class engagement and motivation, and increase the independent drive to exercise. Second barrier to students’ achievement is the lack of motivation to be active, and even more difficult, to specific fitness activities, such as sit-ups and push-ups. In today’s society, students spend more time sitting in front a screen and less time moving. Parent and school today have more responsibility making sure the children get enough physical activity. According to the New York Times (2016), “early school physical education (PE) programs can make a significant difference, and the earlier these routines are learned the more likely they will be carried forth into a healthy adulthood”. Another barrier that prevents students’ success is the loss of instructional time due to discipline problems. The classes are too big, with many diverse students with individual problems, which are difficult to address when these issues are from very different backgrounds. Finally, there is not enough support from home affecting not only physical education, but

Physical activity is an integral part of health and well being in children.Our bodies also require physical activity in order to be healthy.Understanding and supporting physical activity, will help children have the right foundation for a healthy and happy life.Positive experiences with physical activity at a young age promotes the growth if strong bones and muscles, help to develop good posture and balance, obesity risk and chronic disease risk infection are reduced.

Physical education classes are not enjoyed by all, in fact, some students do their best to get out of the class each day, but without this class, students would sit in school for seven hours a day with the only exercise being walking from class to class. While changing clothes and possibly getting sweaty may not seem productive for students who have spent an hour doing their hair, or feel awkward changing in front of others, this class provides positive ways of fighting obesity, releasing energy, retaining more academically, and learning discipline. Thus, students should be required to take physical education courses in high school.

Thus, if the child’s experience was not perfect then that may lead to a negative impact or image in this child, which might lead him to quite that specific sport again. Nonetheless, a new research by the Canadian institute of health research in British Columbia discovered that increasing the gymnasium class frequency, or soft drinks consumption would not reduce or affect the body mass weight (BMI) in youth. Then, the child’s diet and food preference creates all the difference. However, teenagers and youth develop food preferences are based on the advertising they see which, unfortunately, aim for the high calorie and sugar laden drinks and snacks. I still cannot remember a time in my semester long physical education when I was taught to choose a healthy diet, rather the 110 hour class focused on taking action in the gymnasium and ensuring that a minimum of 55 hours of out of school activity are logged by the end of the course. So the key component here is the relationship between the teacher and the student. In other words, if the teacher took the time to alter his program to adapt to the present day student, then the program will be more effective and it will establish more interests. Surprisingly, Canadian kids and youth are ranked the fourth globally in obesity levels; we are almost beating the United States not in the positive way but in the negative one, good job Canada! This however reveals certain connections to

School is filled with many extracurricular activities, such as clubs, F.B.L.A, F.C.A, and of course, sports. There have been many remarks from people worldwide about the fact of sports should be banned from schools and just be about learning. Teachers and parents say sports are a distraction from the real reason student are at school, to learn. Other opinions, as well as mine, might disagree from the previous statement. Sports allow students to get in shape, be healthy, and interact with many other different people.

physical education is one of the best ways I know to commit to the community. Which is why I chose physical education to represent this vaasomway. The reason I think physical education is a great choice is because of how the coaches work hard to make sure that their community is fit and healthy. Other than that P.E helps those who want to do well in sports or other activities. There are many challenging obstacles in P.E such as concentrating on your stamina, breathing, body pain, and the workouts in general. But I think anyone can overcome those obstacles if they train and work hard

“Physical education hopes to accomplish, to engage all students, not just the athlete elite, in fun activities that will instill a lifelong commitment to fitness.” (Johnson, 264). Physical education in the classroom can be a vital steeping stone to the way that teenagers think about fitness. Lifelong fitness is something that everyone should be guaranteed, it mainly depends on the experience that a teenager has. Like many other subjects in school, the

My issue I have chosen to focus on is physical education (PE) and gender in upper key stage 2. This is because 39% of children across the United Kingdom have a poor attitude towards any sort of physical activity by 11 years old (Harris, 2015). My aim is to mainly focus on why some girls do not like the thought of taking part in a PE lesson and what we can do in school to help. Mason (2014), found that some girls do not join in any activity in or out of school due to what they experience in school PE lessons. Supporting evidence shows how physical activity attitudes are linked back to our experiences throughout school (Griggs, 2015). It is important to ensure what children experience through school during physical education is consistently positive and enjoyable to encourage physical activity within and outside of school too. There may be many reasons for why children do not enjoy joining in PE lessons and the excuses to avoid them can vary. However, it is important as a country that physical exercise is encouraged to ensure children are remaining active. I find it interesting that it is mainly girls who are wanting to avoid PE, therefore my aim is to find a way to overcome this problem by implementing strategies that will give children, especially girls, the best experience in school PE lessons possible, in order to encourage them to participate.

Almost every college and university require their students to take a physical education class. College students disagree with the idea because the class it either to active for them or the will become less presentable (sweat and stink). Physical education classes are not hard and some relatively does not require a lot of activity. Although college students feel that they should not be required to take physical education class, college students should be required to take a physical education

Physical Activity is undeniably good for everyone, not only does it keep you fit and healthy but when started at a young age, it can set up good habits for life. Sometimes however, people do not take care of their physical wellbeing, resulting in obesity and other eating disorders which can be detrimental to their health.

Throughout history, a proverb was written, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” but through physical education, also known as PE, Gym, Gym class, or Physical training, is an educational course related to maintaining the human body from simple physical exercises to “training in hygiene, gymnastics, and the performance and management of athletic games,” as written in the Merriam Webster. The evolution of physical education had just begun from Greece in 386 BC at Plato’s school, known as Akademia, or “The Academy.” Sooner or later, after the end of Civil War, school systems implemented physical education programs and enacted laws that would make physical education programs compulsory in all public schools. Since then, during World War II, physical education programs became more common due to the physical fitness requirement for military service and manual labor jobs. Until 1975, the United States House of Representative amended the Federal Education Act to grant women in school physical education programs to compete in athletic programs at high schools and colleges. Although physical education may be compulsory in most schools, physical education should be compulsory in all schools.

I interviewed Larry Becker, one of my high school football coaches and also PE teacher, to see what he thought were the major concerns and dilemmas facing Physical Education. I talked to him about going into Physical Education as my major because I want to be a coach. He said probably the biggest misconception is that people go into Physical Education to be a coach or just a PE teacher and they do not really realize that not too

There is nothing more important than health, especially in this day and age. It’s concerning that only 29 percent of high school students surveyed by the CDC (2011) had participated in at least 60 minutes of physical activity on all seven days before the survey. The CDC also noted that only 31 percent of these high school students attended physical education class daily. Only 8 percent of elementary schools, 6.4 percent of middle schools, and 5.8 percent of high schools provide daily physical education to all of its students (SHPPS, 2000). The government is missing the fact that physical education can actually improve test scores, not the opposite.

In the modern schools, too many elementary schools are so centered academics and don’t focus on the well-being of the students. The school systems also don’t realize that physical activity can help students perform better in the classrooms. In the recent years, there has been a worldwide tendency to reduce school-based physical education in favor of academic subjects. Given the beneficial effects of exercise and the disadvantages of a sedentary lifestyle, cutbacks in physical education lessons are not near as productive as people think. Systematic reviews provide clear