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  Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance


[Button] The American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance - AAHPERD
http://www.aahperd.org
Has links to various activities of the AAHPERD, such as legislative action it is watching. Also includes links to related websites and the state association websites.

[Button] An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/dihome.html
"An American Ballroom Companion presents a collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress. The list begins with a rare late fifteenth-century source, Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (c.1490) and ends with Ella Gardner's 1929 Public dance halls, their regulation and place in the recreation of adolescents. Along with dance instruction manuals, this online presentation also includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, and items from other conceptual categories. Many of the manuals also provide historical information on theatrical dance. All illuminate the manner in which people have joyfully expressed themselves as they dance for and with one another."

[Button] Basketball drills
http://www.degerstrom.com/basketball/drills
587 free basketball drills in 14 different categories.

[Button] Dance Support Organizations
http://www.artslynx.org/dance/organizations.htm
"Professional, scholarly, recreational, educational, and discipline based organizations, all ready to help you and to nurture your options as member of a COMMUNITY of artists. These are listed in alphabetical order. Each link was hand chosen on the basis of site content and usefulness."

[Button] Dance/USA
http://www.danceusa.org/
"Dance/USA advances the art form of dance by addressing the needs, concerns and interests of the professional dance community."

[Button] Educational Resources in Physical Education
http://www.cln.org/subjects/pe.html
Sponsored by the Community Learning Network, "a site designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into the classroom." This portion of their site includes: Curricular Resources (Information/explanations for students and teachers wishing to learn more about Physical Education), Instructional Materials (Lesson plans and teaching tips/ideas for Physical Education teachers), and Theme Pages (Curricular resources as well as Instructional Materials on specific Physical Education topics).

[Button] NCAA Online
http://www2.ncaa.org/
An important site with statistics, NCAA polls, regional rankings, employment opportunities, and information on rules inforcement, infractions, broadcast events, and much, more more.

[Button] The National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
"The Visible Human Project®...is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies. Acquisition of transverse CT, MR and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers has been completed. The male was sectioned at one millimeter intervals, the female at one-third of a millimeter intervals."

[Button] PBS TeacherSource: Health & Fitness recommended links
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/recommended/rec_links_health.shtm
Has links to many related sites on topics such as: Addiction, Boys and Girls, Disease, Emotional Health, Family Living, General Health, Nutrition, Recreation and Physical Education, and Safety. These are not necessarily related to programs on PBS.

[Button] PE Central: The Web Site for Health and Physical Education Teachers
http://www.pecentral.org
Includes lesson ideas, professional information, and links to other resources on the Web.

[Button] PELINKS4U: Physical Education, Health, Fitness & Sports Information
http://www.pelinks4u.org
Has many different sections: Elementary Physical Education, Secondary PE, Health, Fitness, & Nutrition, Technology and Physical Education, Coaching & Sports, Interdisciplinary PE, and Adapted Physical Education. These are changed monthly and edited by different experts.

[Button] Sports Media: Physical Education Lesson Plans for Everyone
http://www.sports-media.org
Contains interactive discussions, PE quizzes, a lesson plan database, and links to other Web resources, both national and international.

[Button] Sportscience
http://www.sportsci.org
A peer-reviewed site for sport research. Has information on such topics as: Sports Medicine, Sport Nutrition, Statistics, Jobs and Careers, Training Info, and links to journal homepages.

[Button] U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
http://www.hhs.gov
Information on a wide variety of topics, including safety & wellness, drug & food information, aging, and diseases & conditions.

[Button] Women's Sports Foundation
http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/cgi-bin/iowa/index.html
A comprehensive site on issues dealing with women and sports. Includes sports & fitness, particular athletes, and different issues such as discrimination, coaching, and parents & family.
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