In your own opinion, why it is important to teach physical education and health education in

Elementary Grades?

Physical education and Health education are both important, students can get a lot of benefits
from this classes. Physical education teaches the importance of keeping the body active and
moving. It teaches students to improve the quality of their life. Focusing only on school work
can make their life boring and motionless which in turn can cause depression and failure.
Physical education aims to make students physically strong, well-poised, mentally alert and
active, and emotionally tempered and well-balanced. Every level takes different program such
as sports, and dancing. While Health education helps to teach one how to stay well and things
that they should and should not do their bodies.Health education motivate and help the
students maintain and improve their health, prevent disease, and to avoid health related risk. It
is designed to keep student informed with health concerns and issues.Including Proper hygiene,
First aid and nutrition. All of this aim to lead the students to adopt a healthy lifestyle and helps
to improve their over-all thinking ability, To make them better students in classroom. Health
and Physical Education is important because it will help our students live longer, healthy lives. I
believed that Physical Education is an opportunity for students to learn about the importance of
being active and healthy, and what is required of them to do so.

We need Health and Physical Education in our schools so students can begin to practice a
healthy lifestyle and to continue the lifestyle in their futures. We want kids to enjoy being
active and to attain the required skills to help them be active, and physical education will help
achieve this. Health offers students the opportunity to learn about which foods to eat, how to
take care of themselves, which relationships are healthy, and about what their body goes
through as they grow older. Physical education offers students the opportunity to not only be
physically active, but it helps students to build confidence, to learn different movement skills,
and it helps them to work as a team.