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National PE Standard
Standard 5
The physically literate individual
recognizes the value of physical activity
for health, enjoyment, challenge, selfexpression, and/or social interaction.SHAPE America

http://www.shapeamerica.org/standards/pe/

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Readability: Flesch-Kincaid 1.8
Suitability: Pre-K or Elementary
This book tells the story of how all the letters of
the alphabet climb up the coconut tree, but once
they all get to the top, the tree breaks and they
all fall off. This book is awesome at teaching
young readers the letters of the alphabet,
especially the order of the alphabet. It is very
simple to read but still fun because it has
imaginary words that are fun for kids to sign
aloud as they read through it!

Lesson Plan
Readability: Flesch-Kincaid 8
Suitability: Elementary or Middle
The purpose is to allow students to apply what they have learned
about chasing/fleeing/dodging in a game situation. (Kimball, 1).

This lesson plan was awesome at explaining the activity but in terms of
a description that would be mainly for a teacher. If they wanted to carve
it down and include a diagram it would probably be easier for a handout
or to post in the classroom for that days objective or plans. It also
sounds like a really fun game that elementary students would love!

Kimball, R. (2001, March 17). 3-5 PE Lesson Ideas. Retrieved March 23,
2015, from http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?
ID=691#.VRAfr1PF84Q

Holes
Readability: Flesch-Kincaid Level 4.6
Suitability: Middle
The main character Stanley, goes to a boys
detention center where the boys dig holes because
it builds character. Along the way, Stanley bonds
with another outcast named Zero and work
together to break what seems to be a family curse
that has a connection between the boys, the camp,
and a hidden treasure. This leads directly into the
benefits or risks of physical activity, especially
when used as a punishment.

Lesson Plan
Readability: Flesch-Kincaid 9
Suitability: Middle
The purpose is to work on students fitness levels using the Presidential
Fitness Testing Challenge. (Dorozynski, 1).

Not only did this lesson plan include homework, researching about the country
each student is assigned, it included different activities that tested students
on agility, muscular endurance, muscular strength, and cardiorespiratory
endurance. The lesson plan is mainly for the teachers to use as an outline in
helping plan for the class. But, it could be cut-down and placed on the wall
or handed out so students could read the plans for the class that day.

Dorozynski, D. (2002, August 16,). Middle School PE Lesson Ideas. Retrieved

March 23, 2015, from http://www.pecentral.org/LessonIdeas?ViewLesson.asp?
ID=3088#.VRAbsIPF84Q

Dare to Dream
Documentary
Readability: Flesch-Kincaid 6.9
Suitability: Middle and Up
HBO Sports Dare to Dream is one of the greatest untold sports stories
of the 20th century, the story of the remarkable group of athletes who
struggled for years to earn an audience, and succeeded in lifting the
aspirations of young women throughout the world. (Dare to Dream)

This documentary is a true story of the underdog US Womens National

Soccer Team and their challenges to earn their place as a recognized,
competitive sport. The movie flips between the farewell send-off of those
players who paved the way for future generations and the story of their
journey of making the game what it is today. It truly is an awe-inspiring
story that shows what you can do if you have the dream, but also is a
huge motivator and inspiration for young girls who are chasing their
dreams of becoming professional athletes.
Dare to Dream [Motion Picture]. (2007). HBO Video.

Physical Best
Activity Guide
Readability: Flesch-Kincaid 12.1
Suitability: Middle and Up
This comprehensive health-related fitness education program
is back and better than ever! Developed by top-level
educators, this third edition will help students gain the
knowledge, skills, appreciation, and confidence they need to
lead active, healthy lives, regardless of physical and mental
abilities or disabilities.

Carpenter, J. (2005). Physical Best Activity Guide: Middle and

High School Levels (3rd ed.) (C. Sinclair, Ed.). Champaign, IL:
Human Kinetics.

Looking For
Alaska
Readability: Flesch-Kincaid 8.1
Suitability: High
Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words- and tired of
his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek
what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the Great
Perhaps. Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska
Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will
pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great
Perhaps. (Green, back cover).

Green, J. (2005). Looking for Alaska: A novel. New York: Dutton

Childrens Books.

Lesson Plan
Readability: Flesch-Kincaid 8.4
Suitability: High
The purpose of the activity is designed to give students a variation on
indoor soccer. It combines aspects of indoor soccer and basketball and
allows learners that are not well practiced in either sport to be successful.
(Kruk, 1).

The lesson plans really good background on each sport individually before
combining the two sports. As is, the lesson plan could be posted in the
classroom or given as a handout before playing or practicing the game and
the students would be able to understand it.

Kruk, K. (2009, November 11). High School PE Lesson Ideas. Retrieved March
23, 2015, from http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?
ID=9242#.VRAilFPF84Q

Effect of a Sport Education

Program on Motivation for
Physical Education and
Leisure-Time Physical
Activity
Readability: Flesch- Kincaid Level 20.1
Suitability: College Students
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a high school sport
education curriculum program on students motivation for physical
education and leisure-time physical activity. (Garn, Vidoni, and Wallhead,
pg. 1)

Sport education facilitates more internalized forms of student motivation

in required physical education programs, but without the provision of an
appropriately designed extracurricular outlet, the potential of transfer to
leisure-time physical activity may not be achieved. (Garn, Vidoni, and
Wallhead, pg. 1).

Garn, Vidoni, and Wallhead, pg. 478-487

College Athlete Summer

Conditioning Program
Readability: Flesch-Kincaid 4.7
Suitability: Middle and Up
The purpose is a conditioning program that describes the drills
under the categories of ball control and agility, technical
speed/pure speed/ and endurance, strength and flexibility, and
shooting and heading. While the description and the actual
reading of the program is not written in a challenging way,
being able to understand what to do in each drill and then
putting it all together and having it flow and actually challenge
the athlete would be pretty challenging. In addition to that,
being able to set up the drills in a connecting way and running
someone through the drills would take a very good
understanding of what the each individual drill requires in terms
of what it wants to get out of the athlete.

Works Cited
Carpenter, J. (2005). Physical Best Activity Guide: Middle and High School Levels (3rd ed.) (C. Sinclair,
Ed.). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. (n.d.). Retrieved March 21, 2015, from http://englogs.weebly.com/log-2picture--books/chicka-chicka-boom-boom

Dare to Dream [Motion Picture]. (2007). HBO Video.

Dorozynski, D. (2002, August 16,). Middle School PE Lesson Ideas. Retrieved March 23, 2015, from
http://www.pecentral.org/LessonIdeas?ViewLesson.asp?ID=3088#.VRAbsIPF84Q

Green, J. (2005). Looking for Alaska: A novel. New York: Dutton Childrens Books.
Holes, Summary and Reviews. (n.d.). Retrieved March 23, 2015, from
http://www.booksbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm/book_number/1747/holes#about

http://readability-score.com
Kruk, K. (2009, November 11). High School PE Lesson Ideas. Retrieved March 23, 2015, from
http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=9242#.VRAilFPF84Q

Kimball, R. (2001, March 17). 3-5 PE Lesson Ideas. Retrieved March 23, 2015, from
http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=691#.VRAfr1PF84Q

National PE Standards. (n.d.). Retrieved March 23, 2015, from

http://www.shapeamerica.org/standards/pe/

University of North Carolina Women Soccers Summer Skill/Conditioning Program. (n.d.). Retirieved
March 23, 2015, from
http://www.district196.org/evhs/athletics/fall/girlssoccer.com/PreparationForNextSeason/UniversityofNort
hCarolinaWomenSoccer.pdf

Wallhead, T., Garn, A., & Vidoni, C. (2014). Effect of a Sport Education Program on Motivation for
Physical Education and Leisure-Time Physical Activity. Research Quarterly for Exercise & Sport, 85(4),
478-487. Retrieved March 23, 2015, from JMU Libraries.