Integrating academic core subjects into Physical Education classes is a passion for Melanie Champion. Watch the creativity and motivation that helped earn her NASPE Teacher of the Year honors! Champion steps out of the gym to the academic core teachers to find out what they are working on in the classrooms and then integrates and reinforces this into her Physical Education classes. The result: fun activities, skill development games, partner activities, fitness ideas and more that integrate the other core subject areas with the NASPE physical education standards. Chapman shares eight different integration activities and games that give examples of integrating anatomy, social studies, communication skills, math, the solar system, spelling, health and much more with our physical education curriculum. All of these imaginative and highly creative games can be adapted and applied to different grade levels and subject areas. Each exercise also reinforces important aspects of quality physical education: total participation, cooperation, leadership development, group problem solving, cardiovascular challenges and most importantly, FUN!
61 minutes. 2002.