Jeff Mendel

SLM 521

September 17, 2005

PE Central- The premier Web site for health and physical education teachers, parents, and students. Our goal is to provide the latest information about developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children and youth.[from site] 9/17/05 http://www.pecentral.org/

Physical Education Lesson Page- This page has an extensive ist of lesson plans post by Physical Educators for all over the world. The activites cover a wide variety of subject matters including sports, fitness and just fun active games. 9/17/05 http://members.tripod.com/~pazz/lesson.html

Physical Education Lesson Plans- This page contains a small amount of very detailed lesson plans for units in ice skating, gymnastics, football, aerobics, and basketball 9/17/05 http://www.usask.ca/education/ideas/tplan/pedlp/physed.htm

TeAchnology-The web porthole for educators - TeAchnology.com offers teachers FREE access to 27,000+ lesson plans, 6,350+ printable worksheets, rubrics, educational games, teaching tips, advice, education news, teacher downloads, web quests, 256,000+ reviewed web sites and teacher tools for creating exciting classroom instruction. 9/17/05 http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/physical_ed/

The Educators’s Reference Desk- The Educator's Reference Desk builds on over a quarter century of experience providing high-quality resources and services to the education community. From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on. 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses 9/17/05 http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Physical_Education

Lesson Plans Page- This page has Physical Education and Health Lesson Plans, Ideas and Activies broken down by grade level from prek-high school. It as has teacher forums and discussion boards 9/17/05 http://www.lessonplanspage.com/PE.htm

The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) -sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, are now available for free. ERIC is moving forward with its modernization program, and has begun acquiring materials for addition to the database.[from site] 9/17/05 http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=Home_page

Teachers.net – This site has a huge bank of lesson plans for a every subject. You can browse the bank of over 3000 enteries by grade level or subject. 9/17/05

Game Central Station - Latest ideas, tips, coaching cues and research on sports, fitness and physical education topics from around the world.[from site] Also contains links teamwork, teambuilding and motivation. 9/17/05 http://www.gamecentralstation.com/

How to tie climbing knots- This site contain everything you need to know to get started learning to tie climbing knots. What to know about knots, 5 essential knots, as wellas hitches and bends. 9/17/05

Team Building Ideas and Tips- This site has a large list of games and initiatives for use in school setting from elementary to high school. It also describes therory and presentaion tips for how to start and lead teambuilding groups 9/17/05 http://www.businessballs.com/teambuilding.htm

OutdoorEd- This page contian a small list of outdoor education lesson plans. The site contains a great deal of information dealing with the field of outdoor educationincluding trainings, technology, risk management and research. 9/17/05 http://www.outdoored.com/curriculum/list.asp

Association for Challenge Course Technology (ACCT)- This organization sets the standards for use and construction of challenge courses in the United States 9/17/05 http://www.acctinfo.org/

Project Adventure- This organization started what is now known as adventure-based learning/ropes courses in 1971. It is a good reference to learn more about adventure based learning and to purchase equitpment and books. It aslo contains CircleUp, the site for Project Adventure members, provides free activities, resources, discussion forums, and articles to help you expand your Adventure Education experience.

Wilderness Education Curriculum- This site has to complet e curriculums, one for k-8 and one for 9-12. These are extensive curriculums with activities, lesson plans and information, broken down to relateto traditional subjects(Social Studies, History, English, Art,Scienceand Math). http://carhart.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=curriculum

GORP (Climbing How to)- This site has a wide variety of information about rock climbing from beginner to advanced. It includes information about technique and training as well as information about taking kids climbing. GORP.com is your encyclopedic resource for outdoor recreation—hiking, biking, rafting, camping, fishing, and more. With information on attractions, outdoor gear, adventure travel, and national parks and wilderness areas, GORP.com is the web's best place to start your journey into the great outdoors. [fromsite] 9/17/05 http://gorp.away.com/gorp/activity/climb/cli_howt.htm

Guide to developiong a outdoor education lesson plan – A step by step format on how to develop a outdoor activity lesson plan in a tradion Physical education setting. 9/17/05 http://www.isu.edu/outdoor/OutLabLesson.htm

Fitness Fundamentals- Describes and Defines aspects for physical fitness 9/17/05

Fitness encyclopedia- This site is an encyclopedia style describing aspects of physical fitness and fitness styles.9/17/05

APA Citation Style- This is a quick and clear list of all possible sources one might come across and how to site them. It breaks down every park of the citation by color, very easy to use. 9/17/05 http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citapa.htm