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• Get up to speed on the use of heart rate monitor technology in high school physical education and health instruction.
• Teach students about lifelong heart fitness.
• Help students individualize their fitness goals and assess their own progress.

Veteran physical educators Deve Swaim and Sally Edwards introduced middle school teachers to heart rate monitors in Middle School Healthy Hearts in the Zone (published in 2002). Their latest book focuses on the unique needs of high school teachers and is designed to make it easy for you to use this technology in your high school curriculum.

How is High School Healthy Hearts in the Zone different from Middle School Healthy Hearts in the Zone? The book provides additional worksheets and workouts for high school students, expanded coverage of the health benefits of heart fitness, in-depth technical information on heart rate monitors, and guidelines for using the technology in sports.

Learn how to
• easily use heart rate monitors—even if you’re a novice,
• incorporate heart rate monitor technology into your high school curricula,
• facilitate experiential learning that helps students see and feel how heart health fitness fits into the curriculum,
• add variety to your teaching to keep students interested, and
• provide athletes with a new way to monitor their progress.

The text explains the rationale behind using heart rate monitors and heart zone training in high school curricula. It provides 46 lesson plans that emphasize self-directed learning, goal setting, and self-motivation. It also presents 72 pull-out, reproducible student worksheets and pull-out log and journal pages.

Whether you’re new to heart rate monitor technology or you’re already using the device, you need High School Healthy Hearts in the Zone—everything you need to succeed is here. ... Read more

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Catastrophic Injuries in High School and College Sports provides extensive recommendations for reducing catastrophic injuries, preventing deaths in athletic programs, and making sports safer and more enjoyable.

Data compiled for the first time in one convenient source, this timely resource is based on results of more than 10 years of study by the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research. The authors discuss what types of injuries are most prevalent, who sustains the injuries, and why and where they occur. Unlike most of the material available in this area, Catastrophic Injuries in High School and College Sports includes both men's and women's individual and team sports.

The authors bring reality to the statistics by presenting case reports of catastrophic injuries at the high school and college level. Readers will learn

- how head and spine injuries occur;
- the frequency and causes of deaths in athletes;
- catastrophic injury data in football;
- how injuries are sustained in team sports--soccer, basketball, ice hockey, baseball, and lacrosse;
- the incidence of injuries in individual sports--gymnastics, swimming, wrestling, track and field, and cheerleading; and
- general guidelines for injury prevention as well as sport-specific recommendations.

Each chapter concludes with helpful references and tables of relevant statistics.

Catastrophic Injuries in High School and College Sports is the eighth volume in the HK Sport Science Monograph Series.

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• Boost self-esteem and promote understanding of other cultures

• Teach responsibility, social skills, and respect for differences through fun activities

• Hold students’ interest with fresh content—even with large groups

If you teach physical education at the middle or high school level, you know that holding students’ interest can be a challenge. Teens don’t want to repeat the same old games they’ve been playing since grade school. What if you could introduce new activities that would renew your students’ interest, improve their self-esteem, and help them gain a better understanding of other cultures?

A Multicultural Approach to Physical Education enables you to do just that. This book offers the following:

• 70 games and activities from 24 cultures

• The authors’ new teaching strategy—a step-by-step process that tells you exactly how to teach games and sports from other countries

• Activities that don’t require any special equipment, so you can implement them even if you’re on a limited budget

• Easy-to-use assessment strategies

This book is the result of extensive field testing. You’ll find it especially helpful if you teach classes of large group sizes, where it is often difficult to provide a quality physical education experience. The activities are intended not only to help your students become more active physically but also to increase their interactions with other students and to teach them to work together to reach common goals. The activities encourage responsible personal and social behavior and help students develop understanding and respect for differences among people—two important NASPE standards for physical activity.

The first section of the book is devoted to teaching strategies. You’ll find everything you need to adopt a multicultural approach: implementation processes for individual and group activities, teaching practices designed to increase participation, and tips for presenting skills, concepts, and activities.

The second section presents the two types of games and activities: those for increased individual interactions and those for increased group interactions. An Activity Finder makes it easy to select the activities that fit the needs of your class size and agenda. You can choose games according to the country you’re studying or the desired outcome.

The book’s final section presents ideas for assessing outcomes and expanding the curriculum. You’ll find three sample rubrics that you can use to assess each lesson’s multicultural outcome. You’ll also find a variety of ideas and techniques that you can use to enhance the students’ learning environment—for example, the NASPE content standards and charts listing common English words and their foreign-language equivalents.

No other book offers a multicultural approach that explains how to teach older students in multiethnic physical education settings and how to expand all students’ understanding of international games and sports. Use this integrated teaching approach to enhance your students’ knowledge and ability in sports and their understanding and appreciation of other cultures. ... Read more

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. JUDO ... FENCING ... ARCHERY ... BIATHLON ... SOMEONE WANTS TO WIN -- AT ANY COST!The combat sports training facility has just opened in Bayport, and the Hardys are on hand to check it out. They can practice judo, fencing, archery, and biathlon, and meet ... Read more

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okay, not very exciting
i've always loved the hardy boys books but these newer ones are not very good. there really isn't much mystery or action left in them. i was also a little surprised to see that they brought iola back into them, she died in the casefiles, why bring her back? i've been disappointed lately at how downhill the books have gone, same as the nancy drew series. i think from now on i'll stick to the older books and actually read something entertaining ... Read more

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Coaching a Championship High School Track & Field Team
Very practical information regarding track and field precedures, workouts and the technicalities of performance for young athletes.

Great book - Will give you the power to change lives.
I got goose bumps as I read Dick Collins' book. Collins' is right on target as to how to build the heart and soul of a High School track program. If you're a track coach; BUY THIS BOOK - get to work and startchanging lives. Winning will be a by-product. ... Read more

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University of Chicago, IL. Second edition of a text on athlete injuries in adolescence. Previous edition 1991. Discusses training, rehabilitation, surgical treatment options, decision making, postoperative rehabilitation, and the return to sports. Halftone illustrations. 55 contributors, 51 U.S. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office. ... Read more

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In this book, the author explains how to get the best performance from a horse. It provides advice on conformation and choosing the right breed, feeding and nutrition, early training and a general conditioning programme to bring the horse to a basic level of fitness. ... Read more

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Written for coaches, this work presents more than 180 baseball games and activities for young children and adolescents, focusing on teaching, improvement of skills and enjoyment. Games emphasizing baserunning, bunting, catching, fielding, hitting, throwing and pitching are covered. Each section reviews fundamentals, introduces creative skills and drills for group practice, and details the age group, objective, equipment and rules for each activity. ... Read more

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Part of a series of stories and activities centred on a "real" neighbourhood, Wellington Square, and the people who live there. From "Level 3" onwards, the stories also contain supplementary materials and suggestions dealing with non-fiction texts. ... Read more

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Through the new Physical Best Activity Guide: Middle and High School Level, Second Edition, teachers can do the following:• Implement ready-to-use activities based on the latest national guidelines from NASPE• Provide appropriate activities for students of all abilities• Save time and program funds by using reproducibles from the CD-ROM

This revised activity guide provides a comprehensive collection of health-related physical fitness activities—more than 50—that cover aerobic fitness, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition. The new edition offers exciting, teacher-tested activities to help rejuvenate existing programs or develop new programs that encourage lifelong participation in health-related physical activity.

The Middle and High School Level Activity Guide includes four new chapters on activities that incorporate components of health-related fitness and emphasize lifetime physical activities such as climbing stairs, gardening, dancing, housework, and adventure pursuits. This material also is fully compatible with the award-winning Fitness for Life student text by Charles B. Corbin and Ruth Lindsey (now in its fifth edition and available from Human Kinetics).

In addition, the Middle and High School Level Activity Guide it comes with a CD-ROM containing PDF versions of numerous reproducibles, including posters, worksheets, station signs, flash cards, and other things to make the teacher’s job easier and the activities more fun.

The activity guide helps teachers do the following:• Meet the specific needs of the age groups they are teaching• Benefit from the real-world experience and fresh ideas of seasoned physical educators• Assist students in making informed health-related physical fitness choices beyond the classroom setting

Designed to stand alone or be used in conjunction with Physical Education for Lifelong Fitness: The Physical Best Teacher’s Guide, Second Edition, this cutting-edge resources will enliven programs, save time, and help teachers motivate students to become fit for life. ... Read more

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Introduces the techniques, equipment, rules, and safety requirements of baseball. ... Read more

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Easy-to-read and very practical in approach, this text provides prospective middle and secondary school physical education teachers with the skills and knowledge to develop, implement, teach and maintain a concepts-based fitness course within their physical education course. It doesn't just tell teachers what to teach, but also how to teach it, while altering the students' behavior to include activities for a lifetime of fitness.

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Written for the latest specifications, in a clear and user-friendly style, and highly illustrated, the new edition of this textbook should appeal to students of all abilities. ... Read more

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Saint Peter’s Preparatory School (or simply "Prep") is New Jersey’s only Jesuit high school. A community of learners that seeks to find God in all things, Prep prides itself on molding young men of competence, conscience, and compassion. The school has created an iconic football program that is annually ranked as one of the best in America, and is the subject of Richard Corman’s Prep: The Spirit of a High School Football Team. Corman’s photographs document the collective journey of Prep’s football team, the Marauders, through the 2007–2008 school year. With a cinematic flair, he presents striking shots of the team in action, quiet landscapes of the fields of play, candid snaps of passionate fans, and tender portraits of individual players. Peppered throughout are quotes from their fearless leader, the remarkable Coach Rich Hansen, who holds the record for the most wins in the school’s history. It all comes together to reveal a poignant story about a group of young men playing football and experiencing adolescent life before our eyes, a story of "men for others" in the true Jesuit tradition. ... Read more