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12 game resources under $35 to encourage youth to be physical active

12 game resources under $35 to encourage youth to be physical active

Searching for awesome resources under $35 to get kids excited about staying active? Look no further! Whether you’re gearing up a PE program, homeschooling, or simply a parent wanting to keep your kids on the move, we’ve got the perfect picks to inspire endless fun and fitness! 

Playing Fair

 

Playing Fair helps you create a learning environment in which your students can grow as problem solvers, decision makers, and team players. Theories and constructs for games help students learn skills, strategies, and concepts that apply both to other games and to other life situations.

 

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Team Building Through Physical Challenges

 

Team Building Through Physical Challenges explains the concepts involved in team building, shows how to set up teams to facilitate growth, and provides 67 mentally and physically challenging games and activities that will foster team building and the development of numerous social-emotional skills.

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Chicken and Noodle Games offers a variety of games that will keep everyone participating. Provide inclusive and nontraditional games in which no player starts with an advantage, adapt games to various settings and occasions, and increase players' physical activity.

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Building Character, Community, and a Growth Mindset in Physical Education offers more than 60 large-group warm-up activities, character-building activities, and team-building challenges. The book, which comes with a web resource, will help you prepare students for success in college and beyond.

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The Get-Outside Guide to Winter Activities

 

The Get-Outside Guide to Winter Activities offers a wealth of ideas, activities, games, and tips for leaders of wintertime outdoor groups. The activities are safe, age appropriate, and easily modifiable for varying skill levels and designed for a range of locales.

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50 Games for Going Green: Physical Activities That Teach Healthy Environmental Concepts is a collection of easy-to-present activities that educate students in the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling as well as concepts of carbon footprint reduction, climate change, and global warming.

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Geocaching for Schools and Communities includes 41 learning experiences for all ages. Take either a high-tech approach (using triangulation to locate latitudes and longitudes) or a low-tech approach (involving maps) to find a cache. Learn how to develop events and programs and use the games as interdisciplinary learning experiences.

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Games for Motor Learning provides you with 111 field-tested games your students will enjoy. These games integrate the schema theory of discrete motor skill learning, cooperative learning, and brain research on emotions and learning into a unified teaching concept.

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Youth Strength Training guides readers in developing safe, effective, and enjoyable training programs for ages 7 to 18.

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Physical Literacy on the Move is a practical resource to help you guide students toward physical literacy. The book’s 120 games and activities are suitable for a variety of settings, are broken into four progressive levels, and are adaptable to optimize both the instruction and the fun.

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Physical Education for Homeschool, Classroom, and Recreation Settings

 

Physical Education for Homeschool, Classroom, and Recreation Settings offers 102 games and 10 dance and gymnastics activities specifically designed for small-group settings. 

 

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Physical Activities In the Wheelchair and Out

 

Physical Activities In the Wheelchair and Out is packed with over 450 activities and helps you create physical activity options that encourage success by honoring the capabilities of each person under your care. By suggesting ways that familiar games and activities might be modified, this reference offers opportunities for those with severe or multiple disabilities who may or may not use wheelchairs to participate on their own terms.

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