Studies suggest that physical education curricula can provide health benefits to students, and the Institute of Medicine even recommends schools provide at least 60 minutes a day of ...

Adding more physical education classes in grades one to nine could help lower the prevalence of obesity among school-aged children, according to a study published in Obesity. From 2011 to 2018, ...

Share on Pinterest Researchers say exercise programs at schools can help with childhood obesity. Rob and Julia Campbell/Stocksy Researchers say a school-based physical activity program in Slovenia has ...

This week’s “question-of-the-week” is: What is the single most effective instructional strategy you have used when teaching physical education? This post “wraps up” a longer series of questions and ...

An organized intervention program in pre-pubertal children based on increased physical education and activity together with nutritional advice to the children and their families may prevent obesity.

The statistics show a significant rise in participation, with over 155,000 Australians playing, and school programs driving ...

1 Hunter New England Population Health, Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia 2 School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia 3 Hunter Medical Research ...

At the beginning of the school year, Mallory Stiff had no idea how to ride a skateboard. But after recently taking a course that included a skateboarding unit at Minnesota State University, she’s not ...