Physical and

health
education
Health and physical education provides students with the
knowledge and skills that will enable them to achieve and
maintain a physically active and healthful life, not only during their
time in school but for a lifetime. Health and physical education are
integral components of a balanced educational program.

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.
Health and Physical Education is important because it will help our
students live longer, healthy lives.

Physical health can be defined as the normal functioning of the

body. Representing one dimension of total well-being, it's about
how your body grows, feels and moves, how you care for it, and
what you
put into it.
 Importance Of Physical
Education
“Physical education plays a critical role in educating the whole student.
Research supports the importance of movement in educating both mind
and body. Physical education contributes directly to development of
physical competence and fitness. It also helps students to make informed
choices and understand the value of leading a physically active lifestyle.
The benefits of physical education can affect both academic learning
and physical activity patterns of students. The healthy, physically active
student is more likely to be academically motivated, alert, and successful.
... Throughout the school years, quality physical education can promote
social, cooperative and problem solving competencies.
“Physical education hopes to accomplish, to engage all
students, not just the athlete elite, in fun activities that
will instill a lifelong commitment to fitness.” (Johnson,
264). Physical education in the classroom can be a vital
steeping stone to the way that teenagers think about
fitness. Lifelong fitness is something that everyone should
be guaranteed, it mainly depends on the experience
that a teenager has. Like many other subjects in school,
the experiences that a teenage gains during physical
activities and education can be just as essential as
math.
“Physical fitness is not only the vital keys to a healthy
body; it is the source of active and creative intellectual
movement. Surprise! Why health-alert person pay so
much awareness to their regular exercises and their
foods? Well, if you have been neglecting the suggestion
of others on the significance of physical fitness and are
unwilling to abandon your inactive lifestyle and
unhealthful eating practice, it is time to awaken and
smell the coffee.
Physical Education should be a class students should
take every year because it increases performance.
“Increased time in PE classes can help children's
attention and concentration andachievement test
scores,” says writer Nanci Hellmich. When students are
doing a physical activity, it wakes them up more, and it
helps with performance in classes that don’t involve
physical activity.
The definition of physical education is the educational
process that includes physical activity to help
individuals retain skills, fitness, knowledge, and attitudes
that help lead to optimal development and well-being.
Physical education can cover many different things, like
the health and well-being of individuals, how to
maintain a healthy life, and how to maintain or start
healthy habits. In a class room setting it can simply be
teaching students how to be coachable, how to play a
sport, or how to take care of your body. Two careers in
this field of study could be a gym teacher, or a
recreation worker. A gym teachers overall description
could be “To develop in each student an understanding
of the relationship of body function
Did you know that “one out of three children in the
United States is considered overweight”? (Miller). In
today’s society, more and more students are gaining
excessive weight which can lead to even worse internal
problems like heart disease which can drastically
shorten their life span. With school budget cuts and
limited time available for the class, physical education
has slowly become more obsolete in today’s
educational requirements. If students cannot get the
minimum time needed to burn the extra energy found in
today’s foods and drinks, the extra fat adds up, and can
create a buildup extra weight. With the rise of obesity,
simply learning healthy eating and exercises can lead
to a better life style later on in life.
Physical activity enhances children’s quantitative
development within middle childhood, supporting growth
toward healthy strong people, physically and psychology.
Middle childhood i documented as being between the
ages of six to ten years old. A lack of physical activity
affects children across all areas of development; it is not
restricted within the domain of physical development.
Discussed within are the expectations of motor
development within middle childhood, the benefits of
physical activity and the consequences of prolonged
inactivity. Along with how a student’s physical development
facilitates or restricts development in other areas and how
the learning environment can accommodate and support
the physical needs of students.
Physical activity should be encouraged at an early age. It would
be best to make physical education a required school curriculum.
A student taking a physical education class will have many
benefits. For example, a child taking a physical education class
will learn about proper exercising. It would also be wise if the
instructors integrated information about healthy eating habits
into the curriculum to further increase a child?s knowledge on
good dieting. This will help a child develop physically more in
strength and endurance which in turn will build healthy bones,
muscles, and muscle development. Furthermore, at the same time
a child will maintain a healthy weight from eating a nutritional
diet. Having studied some physical education classes from
personal experience, the coach was very passionate about
being healthy. Before leaving P.E. class everyday, he would
review all the major food groups and stress that the students stay
away from fried foods and consume more fruit in their diet.
John F Kennedy once said, “Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to
a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.” He believed
that a person who has conditioned their body will exceed when striving towards
intellectual achievements. Parents across America have seen the influence that physical
exercise can have on students. After school physical education programs, such as sports,
not only condition the students to maintain physical health, they also work with teachers
to make sure the mind is also being conditioned through learning. Students who
participate in school sports are required to maintain their grades to academic
standards to be able to participate in the activity. Even though many people would
agree that physical education is important to a student’s health and learning process,
schools across America are still suffering budget cuts that directly affect the physical
education programs and hinder the amount of resources schools have to educate
students about physical education. In some cases programs have been removed from
schools entirely due to the tremendous cuts in school funding. Physical education
programs in schools should not suffer from budget cuts because they support making
positive life choices, the exercise is good for an active brain, and being physically fit is
important for children as they grow into adults.
 Types of health
Health education is a profession of educating people about health.
Areas within this profession encompass environmental health,
physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health,
and spiritual health, as well as sexual and reproductive health
education.
Models and approaches
to health education:
1. medical
2. behavior change
3. educational
4. empowerment
5. social change
 4 elements of physical
change:
It promotes weight loss, strengthens muscles and bones, keeps the
heart and lungs strong, and helps to protect against chronic
disease. There are four essential elements of physical fitness:
cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance,
flexibility, and maintaining a healthful body composition.