Links: Top Sites for Physical Education

Comprehensive Physical Education Sites                                                       

CALIFORNIA PHYSICAL EDUCATION RESOURCES
The California Physical Education Home Page began in 1990 as an electronic bulletin board, and over the years it has been transformed into this home page. The purpose of this site is to provide information that is current and relevant to K-12 physical educators specifically in California, but also across the nation.

Physical Education at TeacherVision
TeacherVision.com is an online community of teachers providing information and resources as well as tools for building classroom web pages. Designed by teachers, for teachers.(Note: This site paid for a top search page listing).

Game Central Station
This web site has been created as a resource for Physical Educators, recreation specialists, parents or anyone working with children. There are over 245 games for preschool through 12th grade currently in the fully searchable database and more are being added all the time. You can search the database using any combination of game name, grade, skills, related sport, and location.

P.E. Central
Welcome to the ultimate Web site for physical education teachers, students, interested parents and adults. Our goal is to provide the latest information about contemporary developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children and youth.  Lesson Plans

HEALTHwindows.com - your window to good health. HEALTHwindows for Kids is designed to be a commercial-free Internet website where children can search for health and wellness information without being bombarded by advertising. Students can learn about their changing bodies, nutrition, fitness, and safety.

Organizations                                                                                              

AAHPERD: Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
AAHPERD is a non-profit, educational organization whose mission is to promote and support creative and healthy lifestyles through high quality programs in health, physical education, recreation, dance and sport, and to provide members with professional support.

NASPE National Association for Sport and Physical Education

American Running Association Official web site of this organization.

National Association for Physical Education in Higher Education
Mission Statement: The National Association for Physical Education in Higher Education (NAPEHE) is an organization for professionals in higher education who have a variety of teaching, research, coaching and management responsibilities in physical.

NASPE Listserv National Association for Sport and Physical Education listserv.

Fitness                                                                                                            

President's Physical Fitness Challenge Homepage
This well organized and informative site features information about the Presidential Physical Fitness Test. Visitors can learn how to administer each test, see the actual qualifying standards for awards for both boys and girls, and you can order a free brochure to get more information. Additionally, you can order the actual awards and other items from the site using a credit card. However, the online forms provided are not encrypted for secure and safe credit card anonymity. To contact them an email address (preschal@indiana.edu) and their postal address is included.

Mayor's OlympiKids for Fitness
At this Web site teachers and parents can register students with the United States Olympic Committee which will allow them to keep track of their fitness participation. According to the Web site the program "provides educators a tool to assist in increasing kids' awareness, interest and participation in cardiovascular activities. The ultimate goal is to assist children in developing healthier bodies and daily practices that will affect their personal lives." They stress that this is a non-competitive program and most looked like it was but we question several of the games and activities they have chosen as "relays" are not developmentally appropriate. They do provide all of the forms necessary for kids to track their physical activity time.

California Physical Fitness Testing
Includes descriptions of the tests, information on the Fitnessgram and the latest available scores.
Scores area available for every reporting school and District as well as for Counties and the State as a whole.