Workshop Resources & Handouts

2011 Conference Notes

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Childhood Health and Wellness Program (PPT)
Balance your Fitness Night Directions (PDF)
Ball Control (PDF)
Ballroom Dance - Oh, Yes You Can (PDF)
Banking on Fitness (PDF)
ATM Card Banking on Fitness (PDF)
Catch Nets (PDF)
Cookie Jar Fitness #1
Cookie Jar Fitness #2
Early Field Day Card 2005 (PDF)
Early Field Day Card (PDF)
F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future (PDF)
Field Day Activities Grades 3-4 (PDF)
Field Days and More (PPT)
Fostering the healthy development of youth and over time the community (PPT)
Health Activities for High School (PDF)
Individual Fitness Goals and Plans (PDF)
Jump Rope Tasks (PDF)
Minute to Win It! (PDF)
Minute to Win It! - Tuesday Night (PDF)
Minute to Win It! Score Sheet (PDF)
Our Teens' World in the Year 2011 (PPT)
Pal Patterns #2 (PDF)
Pal Patterns #3 (PDF)
Parachute Central Activities (PDF)
PE2theMAX - Revisited (PDF)
PE2theMAX - Behavior and Classroom (PDF)
PE2theMAX - Fitness War (PDF)
PE2theMAX - Head Honcho (PDF)
PE2theMAX - Hula Hut Relay (PDF)
PE2theMAX - Hula Hut Throw Down (PDF)
PE2theMAX - Roll With It (PDF)
Prize Tickets (PDF)
Secondary Circuit Training I - Strength and Aerobic Capacity Intervals (PDF)
Secondary Circuit Training II - Core, Balance, and Flexibility (PDF)
Aerobic Capacity AT Circuit Cards (PDF)
Small Sided Games (PDF)
So You Think You Can't Teach Dance (PDF)
Task Sheets for Kids of All Ages (PDF)
The Funnest Way to Teach PE (PDF)
Timer Tops (PDF)
Tosser Scarves (PDF)
What Are We Learning in PE Today (PPT)
What Are We Learning in PE Today - Handout (PDF)
Yoga Anatomy (PDF)

2010 Conference Notes

Amazing Race Task Cards - 5x7 (PDF)
Amazing Race Questions for Task Cards - 5x7 (PDF)
Backpacking (PDF)
Best Games Ever! (PDF)
Building a Foundation for Fitness (PDF)
Daily Fit Log - Overview (PDF)
Easy Badonk (PDF)
Field Hockey Basics 1 (PDF)
Field Hockey Basics 2 (PDF)
First Tee (PDF)
Fitness Currency Handout (PDF) and Original Money Sheet
Hole Sets (PDF)
How To Pack A Backpack (PDF)
iPE 2010 (PDF)
iPE 2010 Equipment Recommendations (PDF)
iPE 2010 - PowerPoint on Your iPod (PDF)
JD Hughes, PE2theMax
Kayaking and Canoeing (PDF)
Kayaking Terms (PDF)
Kayak Web Links (PDF)
Leave No Trace Principles (PDF)
Mmmmm... good! Mixing a Mishmash of Merry Melodies and Music with Movement (PDF)
Noodle Mania - Fitness and Fun for All 2010 Handout (PDF)
Orienteering Beginner's Info Sheet (PDF)
Orienteering Course Clues and Controls (PDF)
Orienteering Equipment and Supplies (PDF)
Orienteering Map Reading (PDF)
Peanut Butter Jelly Time (PDF)
Portfolios in PE (PDF)
Re-Think Your Drink (PDF)
School Division-Wide Physical Activity Community Event Planning 1 (PDF)
School Division-Wide Physical Activity Community Event Planning 2 (PDF)
Snack Smart (PDF)
TAG... Just Tag (PDF)

2009 Institute Sessions

K-8 Games and Activities to Build Basic Skills (PDF)
Cowboy Boogie (PDF)
Easy Badonk (PDF)
Flying Discs (PDF)
Health Alive! (PowerPoint)
Fitting In Fitness (PDF)
Jump Rope Challenges (PDF)
Badminton Striking Skills: "It's Quite a Racket!" (PDF)
Noodle Mania (PDF)
Quality Physical Eduation on a Budget (PDF)
iPE (PowerPoint)
iPE Equipment Recommendations (PDF)
Quick Start Tennis (PDF)
Tchoukball Handout (PDF)
Tchoukball Lead-up Activities (PDF)
The Big Ball (PDF)
Ball Chart (PDF)
Catch Me If You Can! - Games to develop catching skills (PDF)
Core Circuit (PDF)
Dance Steps (PDF)
Fitness Games and Activities (PDF)
Elementary Nutritional Concepts though Games/Activities (PDF)
Rated R: dances All Adults Should Know (PDF)
Resistance Tubing - A Multi-use Fitness Tool (PDF)
Tube Chart (PDF)
Sleep and Our Health (PowerPoint)
Games From Different Times and Cultures (PDF)
Game On! - Chart (PDF)
Game On! - Intro Sheet (PDF)
Speedminton - Flier (PDF)
Speedminton: Anywhere, Anytime (PDF)
Speedminton - Teacher Guide (PDF)
Making Fitness Fun (PDF)
Personal Fitness Goal Setting (PDF)
Girls (and Boys) Just Wanna Have Fun! (PDF)
Marker Cone Game Cards (PDF)
Pedometer Log (PDF)
Fit For Life Questionnaire (PDF)
Fit for Life Cafe Project Directions (PDF)
- Coconut Canaba Cafe Invitations (PDF)
- Menu for the Coconut Cabana Cafe (PDF)
- Nutrition Cafe Ad Project (PDF)
- Comment Cards (PDF)
Challenge Cards
- Baby Rescue (PDF)
- Flying Frogs (PDF)
- Flying Frogs - Partners (PDF)
- Flying Frogs - Groups (PDF)
- Hole in One (PDF)
- Indiana (PDF)
- Jumping Machine (PDF)
- Pirates (PDF)
- Raise the Roof (PDF)
- Stepping Stones (PDF)
- The Maze (PDF)
- To The Moon (PDF)
- ALL of the above Challenge Cards in one file (PDF)
SPARK: Sports, Play & Active Recreation for Kids (PPT)
SPARK-UP Your Elementary Methods (PPT)
Universities Using Spark (PDF)

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2008 Institute Sessions

Get the Picture: Help Students Achieve Physical Education Standards Using Digital Historical Images! (PDF)
Boiler UP! Moving On Down the Track with F.A.S.T. Physical Activity (PDF)
Move to the Groove (PDF)
Getting Adminstrators Onboard (PDF)
A Healthy Dose of M and M's (Music and Movement) (PDF)
Developmentally Appropriate Progressions (PDF)
Intro to PE 101 (PDF)
Intro to PE 101 Part 2 (PDF)
Line, Square and UN-Square Dance (PDF)
Child Abuse (PPT)
Child Abuse - The Face - An Easy Target (PDF)
Throwing Patterns (PPT)
Hoop Ball (PPT)
Pilates in the Gym (PDF)
Pilates (PPT)
Aerobic Capacity and Fitnessgram (PDF)
Muscular Fitness and Fitnessgram (PDF)
Flexibility and Fitnessgram (PDF)
K-12 Curriculum (PPT)
Bridgewater Field Day (PPT)
Bucket Stack Activities (PDF)
GeoMat Station (PDF)
Indoor Field Day Letter (PDF)
Parent Field Day Letter (PDF)
Save the Farm Field Day (PDF)
Station Rotation (PDF)
To-Do Sheet - Field Day 2008 (PDF)
Sports Medicine - Injuries For Physical Educators (PPT)
Google Docs - A Tool For Data Collection (PPT)
Physical Fitness Data Reporting Directions (PDF)
Google Docs Physical Fitness Data Reporting Directions (PDF)
Healthy Kids, Healthy Virginia (PDF)
Ross - Games and Activities (PDF)
Personal Fitness (PPT)
Proper Fuel (PPT)
Giddy Up: Having Fun with Jump Rope (PDF)
Every Jump Counts (PPT)
GeoFitness Lesson Plan - Day 1 (1-2 grade) (PDF)
GeoFitness Lesson Plan - Day 2 ( 1-2 grade) (PDF)
GeoFitness Lesson Plan - Day 1 (3-5 grade) (PDF)
GeoFitness Lesson Plan - Day 2 (3-5 grade) (PDF)
Noodle Mania (PDF)
Tchoukball - flyer (PDF)
Tchoukball - handout (PDF)
Adventure Activities to Achieve Fitness (PDF)
Adventure Activity List (PDF)
Cowboy Boogie (PDF)
Easy Badonk (PDF)
Partner Activities (PDF)
Poppers 101 (PDF)
Problem Solvers (PDF)

2007 Institute Sessions

Rock This Party! (PDF)
Omnikin Ball Information and Omnikin Ball Games (PDF)
Just For Kicks Presentation (PPT) and Just For Kicks Games (PDF)
Strategies for Positive Behavior Management (PPT)
Positive and Not So Positive Discipline Techniques (PDF)
Socci Sport Alternative Games (PDF)
Creative Dance For Dummies (PDF), Curriculum Unit Framework (PDF) and Creative Dance slides (PPT)
Noodle Mania (PDF)
Pilates in the Gym (PDF) and Pilates slides (PPT)
Cooperative and Adventure Games Workshop (PDF)
Stretching It to the Limit (PDF)
PECAT (PPT)
Omnikin Order Form (PDF)

2006 Institute Sessions

Geo-Fitness (PDF)
C.A.N. Do!
Omnikin Cooperative Games (PDF)
KIN-Ball Sport (PDF)
Health-Enhancing Responses to Bullying
Ping Pong (PDF)
Come Play with David Hunt (PDF)
Strategies for Large Groups (PDF)
PE Initiatives for Stations (PDF)
The Ultimate Game (PDF)
Critical Thinking
How to Use Your Noodle (PDF)
Preventing Risk Behaviors
Getting Them Moving & Breathing Hard (PDF)
Intervals handout (PDF)
Intervals Presentation (PPT)

2005 Institute Sessions

Courses

PowerPoint Presentations