The popularity of ExerGaming™ is growing rapidly in schools,YMCAs, fitness clubs, and homes across the country. The significant rise in interest caused me towonder about the impact of this new trend on student motivation and teacher involvement in schools. My own first-handexperience with ExerGaming™ in an elementary setting gave me some preliminary answers to those questions. What Iobserved was incredibly…
Stall High School’s “Brain Room” looks less like a classroom and more like a first-class fitness center with $50,000 in workout machines and computers. But this is where Paulette Cryer takes her chemistry class to review for an upcoming test on the periodic table’s history and trends. One student pumps his legs on a StairMaster as he matches elements with…
Don’t tell Blake Squires his startup is only selling pedometers. Squires is one of several Cleveland-area investors behind a new company and product called MOVBand, a wearable digital-watch-like pedometer that uses an accelerometer to track a user’s daily steps. But MOVband is selling more than just the band itself. The key to MOVband’s value proposition is a fundraising program called the MOVBand…
The Meriden YMCA is very concerned with the rising rate of childhood obesity in Meriden. To address this problem, they have created the PACE (Physical Activity Changes Everything) Program to provide each family with the necessary tools to combat childhood obesity and lead healthy and active lives. When the Meriden YMCA was looking at innovative ways to incorporate kids’ fitness…
The 2011 PE4Life Resource Conference was held in Overland Park, Kansas on October10-11. School and Community representatives from 22 states attended this two-day event that featured Robyn Bretzing from Timpanogos High School from the alpine School District in Utah as the Keynote Speaker. Robyn challenged the audience to take their daily practice to the next level – from good to…
With the recent release of the 2011 Carol White PEP Grants wealways get asked the same question, how do you get the most out of your PEP Grant no matter what stage you’re in(year 1, year 2, year 3) and make the biggest impact on your community andstudents grades? Kenston Local Schoolsin Chagrin Falls, OH was posed with the same question. …
ESPN’s new original series RISE UP will be telling the story of four communities coming together torenovate their local high school’s athletic facilities. Theinspirational, four-episode series will showcase renovation projects from startto finish and will also focus on giving students advice, training, and toolsthat they can use to become better athletes. POWERADE® is asponsor of, providing hydrationproducts for the series. …
ExcitingNews! PE4life has had additional scholarships become available to the PE4life Resource Conference! We know that attending any event is a big commitmentas it requires time away from school and substitute pay on top of registration fees. To help off-set substitute fees, we are excited to offer 2 for 1pricing. That means two full days of presentations for two people…
When the YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids was looking to open their new Spartan Stores location they wanted to do it with a bang, enter Exergame Fitness. Through a lengthy consultation with Exergame Fitness, the YMCA was able to decide the Lightspace Floor would be the best piece of exergaming equipment to increase physical activity for their youth. At the YMCA…
Authors: Anderson-Hanley C, Tureck K, Schneiderman RL Published Date September 2011 Volume 2011:4 Pages 129 – 137 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S24016 Cay Anderson-Hanley, Kimberly Tureck, Robyn L Schneiderman Department of Psychology, Union College, Schenectady, NY, USA Abstract: Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that leads to impairment in social skills and delay in language development, and results in repetitive behaviors and restricted interests…
In 1998, Mrs. Joan Kroc, widow of McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc, donated $90 million to The Salvation Army to build a comprehensive community center in San Diego, California. Her goal was to create a center, supported in part by the community, where children and families would be exposed to different people, activities and arts that would otherwise be beyond their…
SportsOneSource Media Posted: 7/26/2011 SGMA reported that legislation to encourage increased physical activity in America will be re-introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives later today. Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX) will introduce the Personal Health Investment Today Act of 2011 (PHIT) in the 112th Congress. The PHIT Bill will be offered with strong bipartisan support. Congressmen Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Ron…
