High Activity Solutions for a Low Activity World

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High Activity Solutions for a Low Activity
World

• Presented for OAHPERD
• Salem Oregon, October 2007
• By Paul Rosengard
• Executive Director, The SPARK Programs
• San Diego State University
• Education Studies Program
• University of California, San Diego

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• We understand the problems in our low activity
  world

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related to physical activity
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related to nutrition
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related to technology
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related to school environments
Winners of the tobacco prevention poster contest!
Whats wrong with this picture?
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• We (physical educators) provide the high activity
  solutions!

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High Activity Solutions

• 1. Talk Less

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SPARK Activity Straddleball

• Instruction
• Object is do that by
• 80-20 Rule
• Be a plumber, fix leaks

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High Activity Solution

• 2. Differentiate and Disguise

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SPARK Activity Grab the Apple

• Instruction
• Phraseology
• Nutrition reinforcement
• Teach in levels

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High Activity Solution
3. Modify Traditional Sports
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SPARK Activities Throw and Run, Strike and Run

• Instruction
• Change boundaries, rules, equipment
• Shrink groups, equalize touches and trials, teach
  in levels

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Lets Add It All Up!
1 2 3 MVPA

• 5 min MVPA each day 25 week
• 100 month (10 month school year)
• 1,000 year
• 1,000 more minutes 33 more 30 min. classes and
  that
• 1.5 more months of PE!

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Call To Action!

• Think MVPA
• Visit www.sparkpe.org (click on conferences, then
  OAHPERD) for handout and powerpoint
• Rejoice!

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In Closing
A Thought to Live By
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal
itself, art cannot become manifest, strength
cannot be exerted, wealth becomes useless, and
reason becomes powerless.
Herophilus, 300 B.C.
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VISIT ME
At the SPARK booth!
Website www.sparkpe.org E-mail
spark_at_sparkpe.org Phone 1-800sparkpe