Fitness for Life provides teachers and students with the most comprehensive and current evidence- and standards-based content available to help students to become physically literate and to be physically active throughout their lives. The seventh edition of this Texty Award-winning text is based on established education theory and follows a pedagogically sound scope and sequence to enhance learning and help students take responsibility for their own activity, fitness, health, and wellness. New to This Edition Fitness for Life is more than a fitness education program-it's a conceptual physical education (CPE) program that addresses all national physical education standards. New features include the following: Fully updated content includes new videos, photos, and ancillaries. Universal design principles provide accessibility for all students. Reorganized chapters enhance content flow. New emphasis is placed on physical literacy and health literacy. There is expanded coverage of social-emotional learning. A modular approach and a comprehensive teacher's guide support different schedules and remote learning, in-class learning, and blended approaches. A new delivery platform, HKPropel, allows teachers to assign worksheets and projects, check on student progress, receive reports, and automatically scores tests. An online teacher training course, free to adopters of the student text, includes a test for those who want to earn a certificate of completion. Student and Teacher Resources Fitness for Life comes with an array of resources, including a print text and ebook with web resource, an interactive web text, and teacher ancillaries. The student text offers 21 chapters in seven units. Chapters include lesson objectives, vocabulary words, muscle art, and self-assessments. Other special features in the book include Tech Trends, Fit Facts, Science in Action, Academic Connection, Taking Action activities, and Consumer Corner. To assist students using the print book or ebook, the Fitness for Life, Seventh Edition, Web Resource features easy access to material referenced in the text, including vocabulary terms with English and Spanish definitions and audio pronunciations, worksheets, and chapter reviews. Fitness for Life, Seventh Edition, is also available as an interactive web text, which students can access from a computer, tablet, or mobile device. The student interactive web textbook contains the same content as the print book but uses interactive audio, video, worksheets, and other great activities to help students engage with the material and enhance learning. The interactive web textbook offers audio vocabulary and definitions in English and Spanish. Introductory videos at the beginning of each lesson help students assess their knowledge going in, while videos at the end of each lesson help students put what they've learned into context. Enduring Features of This Iconic Text Meets SHAPE America's latest grade-level standards and outcomes Employs Dr. Corbin's iconic HELP philosophy and Stairway to Lifetime Fitness, Health, and Wellness approach Helps students become informed consumers about physical activity and fitness Helps develop students' self-management skills Separates fitness facts from fiction With its updated content and its new online training course, delivery platform, and ancillaries, Fitness for Life, Seventh Edition, is ideally suited to instruction in a gym, outdoors, in a classroom, entirely online, or in a blended approach. Note: A code for accessing HKPropel is included with all new print books.

Fitness for Life provides teachers and students with the most comprehensive and current evidence- and standards-based content available to help students to become physically literate and to be physically active throughout their lives. The seventh edition of this Texty Award-winning text is based on established education theory and follows a pedagogically sound scope and sequence to enhance learning and help students take responsibility for their own activity, fitness, health, and wellness. New to This Edition Fitness for Life is more than a fitness education program-it's a conceptual physical education (CPE) program that addresses all national physical education standards. New features include the following: Fully updated content includes new videos, photos, and ancillaries. Universal design principles provide accessibility for all students. Reorganized chapters enhance content flow. New emphasis is placed on physical literacy and health literacy. There is expanded coverage of social-emotional learning. A modular approach and a comprehensive teacher's guide support different schedules and remote learning, in-class learning, and blended approaches. A new delivery platform, HKPropel, allows teachers to assign worksheets and projects, check on student progress, receive reports, and automatically scores tests. An online teacher training course, free to adopters of the student text, includes a test for those who want to earn a certificate of completion. Student and Teacher Resources Fitness for Life comes with an array of resources, including a print text and ebook with web resource, an interactive web text, and teacher ancillaries. The student text offers 21 chapters in seven units. Chapters include lesson objectives, vocabulary words, muscle art, and self-assessments. Other special features in the book include Tech Trends, Fit Facts, Science in Action, Academic Connection, Taking Action activities, and Consumer Corner. To assist students using the print book or ebook, the Fitness for Life, Seventh Edition, Web Resource features easy access to material referenced in the text, including vocabulary terms with English and Spanish definitions and audio pronunciations, worksheets, and chapter reviews. Fitness for Life, Seventh Edition, is also available as an interactive web text, which students can access from a computer, tablet, or mobile device. The student interactive web textbook contains the same content as the print book but uses interactive audio, video, worksheets, and other great activities to help students engage with the material and enhance learning. The interactive web textbook offers audio vocabulary and definitions in English and Spanish. Introductory videos at the beginning of each lesson help students assess their knowledge going in, while videos at the end of each lesson help students put what they've learned into context. Enduring Features of This Iconic Text Meets SHAPE America's latest grade-level standards and outcomes Employs Dr. Corbin's iconic HELP philosophy and Stairway to Lifetime Fitness, Health, and Wellness approach Helps students become informed consumers about physical activity and fitness Helps develop students' self-management skills Separates fitness facts from fiction With its updated content and its new online training course, delivery platform, and ancillaries, Fitness for Life, Seventh Edition, is ideally suited to instruction in a gym, outdoors, in a classroom, entirely online, or in a blended approach. Note: A code for accessing HKPropel is included with all new print books.

This "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" classroom guide contains everything you need to deliver standards-based wellness lesson plans to kindergarten students. The guide and its DVD-ROM include the following:

- Daily lesson plans for class discussions and activity breaks, which take only a few minutes, fit easily into your schedule, and integrate with other subject matter areas (such as math, social studies, music, and art)

- Over two hours of fun plug-and-play video routines (featuring embedded wellness messages) for activity breaks, plus instructional videos to teach the movements

- Over 150 printable resources, including full-color signs that reinforce wellness messages, signs and worksheets to decorate, and newsletters to send home to families

About the "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" Program

The award-winning "Fitness for Life" middle and high school programs now have an elementary school companion program. "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" is a coordinated program that promotes wellness, physical activity, sound nutrition, and healthy lifestyles throughout your entire school. It facilitates total involvement by using physical education lessons, classroom activities and discussions, recess, before- and afterschool activities, cafeteria events, family nights, and more. The program also incorporates nutrition guidelines associated with MyPyramid and introduces the new Physical Activity Pyramid for Kids. All components work together to reinforce targeted educational themes and messages from week to week.

The "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" program enables you to do the following: Teach essential health-related concepts of fitness, physical activity, nutrition, and wellness Meet local and state requirements for daily and weekly physical activity Implement easy-to-follow lessons that are standards based and developmentally appropriate Enhance academic performance and help fight childhood obesity Coordinate efforts among classroom teachers, physical educators, other school personnel, before- and afterschool program leaders, and parents Meet recommendations and standards from CDC, USDA, and NASPE, among others

With its integrated lesson plans, activities, videos, and resources, "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" can provide the foundation for a new coordinated school health program or greatly enhance an existing program.

This "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" classroom guide contains everything you need to deliver standards-based wellness lesson plans to first-grade students. The guide and its DVD-ROM include the following:

- Daily lesson plans for class discussions and activity breaks, which take only a few minutes, fit easily into your schedule, and integrate with other subject matter areas (such as math, social studies, music, and art)

- Over two hours of fun plug-and-play video routines (featuring embedded wellness messages) for activity breaks, plus instructional videos to teach the movements

- Over 150 printable resources, including full-color signs that reinforce wellness messages, signs and worksheets to decorate, and newsletters to send home to families

About the "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" Program

The award-winning "Fitness for Life" middle and high school programs now have an elementary school companion program. "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" is a coordinated program that promotes wellness, physical activity, sound nutrition, and healthy lifestyles throughout your entire school. It facilitates total involvement by using physical education lessons, classroom activities and discussions, recess, before- and afterschool activities, cafeteria events, family nights, and more. The program also incorporates nutrition guidelines associated with MyPyramid and introduces the new Physical Activity Pyramid for Kids. All components work together to reinforce targeted educational themes and messages from week to week.

The "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" program enables you to do the following: Teach essential health-related concepts of fitness, physical activity, nutrition, and wellness Meet local and state requirements for daily and weekly physical activity Implement easy-to-follow lessons that are standards based and developmentally appropriate Enhance academic performance and help fight childhood obesity Coordinate efforts among classroom teachers, physical educators, other school personnel, before- and afterschool program leaders, and parents Meet recommendations and standards from CDC, USDA, and NASPE, among others

With its integrated lesson plans, activities, videos, and resources, "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" can provide the foundation for a new coordinated school health program or greatly enhance an existing program.

A winner of the Texty Award for textbook excellence with its first edition, Fitness for Life: Middle School is even stronger in its second edition. Fitness for Life: Middle School is thoroughly updated to address the new national physical education standards, physical activity guidelines, FITT formulas, and USDA nutrition guidelines. In addition, it is greatly expanded and offers plenty of new material: New material on coordinated school health, nutrition, skills, and safety (making the book easy to use in schools with combined PE/health classes) New integration of fitness concepts into math, science, and language arts New technology sections that engage students in applying technology to their fitness A new student interactive web textbook A new teacher online bundle New Interactive Web Texts Offer Great Benefits The student interactive web textbook contains the same content as the print book but uses interactive audio, video, worksheets and other great activities to help students engage with the material and enhance learning. The interactive web textbook offers audio vocabulary and definitions in English and Spanish. Introductory videos at the beginning of each lesson help students assess their knowledge going in, while videos at the end of each lesson help students put what they’ve learned into context. (The interactive web text is available to schools that adopt the hardcover student textbook, or as a stand-alone product. Please contact your Human Kinetics K-12 sales representative for details or to request a price quote.) The teacher online bundle provides teachers with all the materials they need to teach the course—lesson plans, worksheets, rubrics, quizzes, slides, newsletters, and other supporting resources. Teachers can easily access the materials on their computers, laptops, or mobile devices, and they can print whatever they need for use in the classroom or in activities. Loose-Leaf Packs Available Teachers also have the option of purchasing binder-ready resources. This loose-leaf pack includes all the resources from the teacher web text except the slides and the test bank. The loose-leaf pack allows teachers to have all the printable resources already printed for them on hole-punched paper, ready to be put in a binder in any order they choose. They can even leave some material out and add materials of their own. Flexible in Its Application Fitness for Life: Middle School, Second Edition, is the middle school version of the award-winning Fitness for Life, Sixth Edition. As such, it is a great bridge to the high school program. Teachers can use the units and chapters in a fitness unit, a single-semester class, or a yearlong course, with any configuration of days, in either a gym or a classroom. One of the only personal fitness textbooks available for middle schoolers, Fitness for Life: Middle School, Second Edition, offers a foundation for students to get physically active and remain active throughout their lives.

This innovative new textbook, with a full suite of related resources, has been created to support student development and enhancement of healthy behaviors that influence their lifestyle choices and fitness, health, and wellness. A key feature of this curriculum is the complete integration of physical education and health concepts and skills to maximize student interest, learning, and application. This objective was accomplished by combining the expertise of our author teams from two related textbooks--Fitness for Life, Sixth Edition, and Health for Life. This is not just a health textbook with a few physical education concepts thrown in. School systems that want a single textbook to help them address both physical education and health education standards will find that this book provides them a unique and cost-effective option. Health Opportunities Through Physical Education is available in print and digital formats, including an iBooks interactive version for iPads plus other e-book formats that students can use across a variety of platforms. Part I, Fitness for Life, will help students become physically literate individuals who have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to enjoy a lifetime of healthful physical activity. The book will guide students in becoming informed consumers on matters related to lifelong physical activity and fitness, taking responsibility for setting individualized goals, and making their own plans for active living. To accomplish this overarching goal, they learn a variety of self-management skills, including self-assessment. The program is based on established educational theory, which is outlined in the teacher web resources. And they learn all of this through a combination of classroom and physical activity lessons that meet national, state, and local physical activity guidelines and help instill a love for lifetime fitness activities. Part I also enables students to achieve the following goals: * Meet college and career readiness standards by learning and using critical thinking, decision making, and problem-solving skills * Use the Stairway to Lifetime Fitness concept, created by author Chuck Corbin, to encourage higher-order learning (move from dependence to independence) * Perform self-assessments, including all tests in the Fitnessgram battery and the Presidential Youth Fitness Program Part I includes many features that actively engage students by allowing them to: * Assess their own fitness and other health and wellness factors to determine personal needs and assess progress resulting from healthy lifestyle planning. * Use Taking Charge and Self-Management features to learn self-management skills (e.g., goal setting, self-monitoring, self-planning) for adopting healthy lifestyles. * Learn key concepts and principles, higher-order information, and critical thinking skills that provide the basis for sound decision making and personal planning. * Do reading and writing assignments as well as calculations that foster college and career readiness. * Try out activities that are supported by lesson plans offered in the teacher web resources and that can help students be fit and active throughout their lives. < * Take part in real-life activities that show how new information is generated by using the scientific method. * Become aware of and use technology to learn new information about fitness, health, and wellness and learn to discern fact from fiction. * Use the web and the unique web icon feature to connect to relevant and expanded content for essential topics in the student web resource. * Find Academic Connections that relate fitness topics to other parts of the curriculum such as science, language arts, and math. * Use other features such as fitness quotes, consumer corner, Fit Facts, and special exercise features (including exercise and self-assessment videos) that promote higher-order learning. * Focus their study time by following cues from Lesson Objectives and Lesson Vocabulary elements in every chapter. * Use the chapter-ending review questions to test their understanding of the concepts and use critical thinking and project assignments to meet educational standards, including college and career readiness standards. Part II, Health for Life, teaches high school students the fundamentals of health and wellness, how to avoid destructive habits, and how to choose to live healthy lives. This text covers all aspects of healthy living throughout the life span, including preventing disease and seeking care; embracing the healthy lifestyles choices of nutrition and stress management; avoiding destructive habits; building relationships; and creating healthy and safe communities. Part II also has an abundance of features that help students connect with content: * Lesson Objectives, Lesson Vocabulary, Comprehension Check, and Chapter Review help students prepare to dive in to the material, understand it, and retain it . * Connect feature spurs students to analyze various influences on their health and wellness. * Consumer Corner aids students in exploring consumer health issues. * Healthy Communication gets students to use and expand their interpersonal communication skills as they share their views about various health topics. * Skills for Healthy Living and Making Healthy Decisions help students learn and practice self-management so they can make wise choices related to their health and wellness. * Planning for Healthy Living assists students in applying what they've learned as they set goals and establish plans for behavior change. * Self-Assessment offers students the opportunity to evaluate their health habits and monitor improvement in health behaviors. * Find Academic Connections that relate fitness topics to other parts of the curriculum such as science, language arts, and math. * Take It Home and Advocacy in Action prepare students to advocate for health at home and in their communities. * Health Science and Health Technology focus on the roles of science and technology as they relate to health and where science and technology intersect regarding health issues. * Living Well News challenges students to integrate health literacy, math, and language skills to better understand a current health issue.

This "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" physical education guide contains everything you need to deliver wellness lesson plans to K-6 students. The "Physical Education Lesson Plans" book and the two DVDs, resource CD-ROM, and music CD contain the following:

- Standards-based lesson plans that are packed with activities and that coordinate with lessons used by classroom teachers

- Over four hours of video content, including fun plug-and-play routines (featuring embedded wellness messages) and instructional videos that teach the movements

- Hundreds of printable resources, including full-color activity cards and task cards, signs that reinforce wellness messages, worksheets, and newsletters

- Music tracks with silent intervals for use with station activities and cadence tracks for use with fitness assessments

About the "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" Program

The award-winning "Fitness for Life" middle and high school programs now have an elementary school companion program. "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" is a coordinated program that promotes wellness, physical activity, sound nutrition, and healthy lifestyles throughout your entire school. It facilitates total involvement by using physical education lessons, classroom activities and discussions, recess, before- and afterschool activities, cafeteria events, family nights, and more. The program also incorporates nutrition guidelines associated with MyPyramid and introduces the new Physical Activity Pyramid for Kids. All components work together to reinforce targeted educational themes and messages from week to week.

The "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" program enables you to do the following: Teach essential health-related concepts of fitness, physical activity, nutrition, and wellness Meet local and state requirements for daily and weekly physical activity Implement easy-to-follow lessons that are standards based and developmentally appropriate Enhance academic performance and help fight childhood obesity Coordinate efforts among classroom teachers, physical educators, other school personnel, before- and afterschool program leaders, and parents Meet recommendations and standards from CDC, USDA, and NASPE, among others

With its integrated lesson plans, activities, videos, and resources, "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" can provide the foundation for a new coordinated school health program or greatly enhance an existing program.

This "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" classroom guide contains everything you need to deliver standards-based wellness lesson plans to second-grade students. The guide and its DVD-ROM include the following:

- Daily lesson plans for class discussions and activity breaks, which take only a few minutes, fit easily into your schedule, and integrate with other subject matter areas (such as math, social studies, music, and art)

- Over two hours of fun plug-and-play video routines (featuring embedded wellness messages) for activity breaks, plus instructional videos to teach the movements

- Over 150 printable resources, including full-color signs that reinforce wellness messages, signs and worksheets to decorate, and newsletters to send home to families

About the "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" Program

The award-winning "Fitness for Life" middle and high school programs now have an elementary school companion program. "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" is a coordinated program that promotes wellness, physical activity, sound nutrition, and healthy lifestyles throughout your entire school. It facilitates total involvement by using physical education lessons, classroom activities and discussions, recess, before- and afterschool activities, cafeteria events, family nights, and more. The program also incorporates nutrition guidelines associated with MyPyramid and introduces the new Physical Activity Pyramid for Kids. All components work together to reinforce targeted educational themes and messages from week to week.

The "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" program enables you to do the following: Teach essential health-related concepts of fitness, physical activity, nutrition, and wellness Meet local and state requirements for daily and weekly physical activity Implement easy-to-follow lessons that are standards based and developmentally appropriate Enhance academic performance and help fight childhood obesity Coordinate efforts among classroom teachers, physical educators, other school personnel, before- and afterschool program leaders, and parents Meet recommendations and standards from CDC, USDA, and NASPE, among others

With its integrated lesson plans, activities, videos, and resources, "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" can provide the foundation for a new coordinated school health program or greatly enhance an existing program.

This "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" classroom guide contains everything you need to deliver standards-based wellness lesson plans to kindergarten third-grade students. The guide and its DVD-ROM include the following:

- Daily lesson plans for class discussions and activity breaks, which take only a few minutes, fit easily into your schedule, and integrate with other subject matter areas (such as math, social studies, music, and art)

- Over two hours of fun plug-and-play video routines (featuring embedded wellness messages) for activity breaks, plus instructional videos to teach the movements

- Over 130 printable resources, including full-color signs that reinforce wellness messages, worksheets that reinforce concepts, and newsletters to send home to families

About the "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" Program

The award-winning "Fitness for Life" middle and high school programs now have an elementary school companion program. "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" is a coordinated program that promotes wellness, physical activity, sound nutrition, and healthy lifestyles throughout your entire school. It facilitates total involvement by using physical education lessons, classroom activities and discussions, recess, before- and afterschool activities, cafeteria events, family nights, and more. The program also incorporates nutrition guidelines associated with MyPyramid and introduces the new Physical Activity Pyramid for Kids. All components work together to reinforce targeted educational themes and messages from week to week.

The "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" program enables you to do the following: Teach essential health-related concepts of fitness, physical activity, nutrition, and wellness Meet local and state requirements for daily and weekly physical activity Implement easy-to-follow lessons that are standards based and developmentally appropriate Enhance academic performance and help fight childhood obesity Coordinate efforts among classroom teachers, physical educators, other school personnel, before- and afterschool program leaders, and parents Meet recommendations and standards from CDC, USDA, and NASPE, among others

With its integrated lesson plans, activities, videos, and resources, "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" can provide the foundation for a new coordinated school health program or greatly enhance an existing program.

This "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" classroom guide contains everything you need to deliver standards-based wellness lesson plans to kindergarten fifth-grade students. The guide and its DVD-ROM include the following:

- Daily lesson plans for class discussions and activity breaks, which take only a few minutes, fit easily into your schedule, and integrate with other subject matter areas (such as math, social studies, music, and art)

- Over two hours of fun plug-and-play video routines (featuring embedded wellness messages) for activity breaks, plus instructional videos to teach the movements

- Over 130 printable resources, including full-color signs that reinforce wellness messages, worksheets that reinforce concepts, and newsletters to send home to families

About the "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" Program

The award-winning "Fitness for Life" middle and high school programs now have an elementary school companion program. "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" is a coordinated program that promotes wellness, physical activity, sound nutrition, and healthy lifestyles throughout your entire school. It facilitates total involvement by using physical education lessons, classroom activities and discussions, recess, before- and afterschool activities, cafeteria events, family nights, and more. The program also incorporates nutrition guidelines associated with MyPyramid and introduces the new Physical Activity Pyramid for Kids. All components work together to reinforce targeted educational themes and messages from week to week.

The "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" program enables you to do the following: Teach essential health-related concepts of fitness, physical activity, nutrition, and wellness Meet local and state requirements for daily and weekly physical activity Implement easy-to-follow lessons that are standards based and developmentally appropriate Enhance academic performance and help fight childhood obesity Coordinate efforts among classroom teachers, physical educators, other school personnel, before- and afterschool program leaders, and parents Meet recommendations and standards from CDC, USDA, and NASPE, among others

With its integrated lesson plans, activities, videos, and resources, "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" can provide the foundation for a new coordinated school health program or greatly enhance an existing program.

This "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" classroom guide contains everything you need to deliver standards-based wellness lesson plans to kindergarten sixth-grade students. The guide and its DVD-ROM include the following:

- Daily lesson plans for class discussions and activity breaks, which take only a few minutes, fit easily into your schedule, and integrate with other subject matter areas (such as math, social studies, music, and art)

- Over two hours of fun plug-and-play video routines (featuring embedded wellness messages) for activity breaks, plus instructional videos to teach the movements

- Over 130 printable resources, including full-color signs that reinforce wellness messages, worksheets that reinforce concepts, and newsletters to send home to families

About the "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" Program

The award-winning "Fitness for Life" middle and high school programs now have an elementary school companion program. "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" is a coordinated program that promotes wellness, physical activity, sound nutrition, and healthy lifestyles throughout your entire school. It facilitates total involvement by using physical education lessons, classroom activities and discussions, recess, before- and afterschool activities, cafeteria events, family nights, and more. The program also incorporates nutrition guidelines associated with MyPyramid and introduces the new Physical Activity Pyramid for Kids. All components work together to reinforce targeted educational themes and messages from week to week.

The "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" program enables you to do the following: Teach essential health-related concepts of fitness, physical activity, nutrition, and wellness Meet local and state requirements for daily and weekly physical activity Implement easy-to-follow lessons that are standards based and developmentally appropriate Enhance academic performance and help fight childhood obesity Coordinate efforts among classroom teachers, physical educators, other school personnel, before- and afterschool program leaders, and parents Meet recommendations and standards from CDC, USDA, and NASPE, among others

With its integrated lesson plans, activities, videos, and resources, "Fitness for Life: Elementary School" can provide the foundation for a new coordinated school health program or greatly enhance an existing program.