Welcome to weissice.com, an educator's source for physical education games.

My name is Howie Weiss. I am dedicated to promoting best practices in physical education. I believe that all physical education lessons should start with fun, include fitness and social education and help instill a love for life long movement. It is my hope that you will find this web site an outstanding resource for your physical education program.

I love to create physical education games. I have been devising exciting physical education games for the past 30 years. I also believe with the help of this web site and my book, you too will be able to create your own standard based physical education games. I will be sharing my expertise on my web site and in my book: Fun, Fitness, and Skills - The Powerful Oringinal Games Approach." You can find my book on the Human Kinetics Web Site. Just follow this link:

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Please e-mail me at weissice@aol.com

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May and June brings many field days. Here are some ways to structure a successful field day and ten of my favorite games. Ten Favorite Field Day Games

Pre-K Physical Education Primer helps teach physical education in the early childhood years. Contains games and activities for Pre-k and K students.

Target Ball is a throwing and movement game with lots of variations. This game can be modified so that any age may derive benefits, while the teacher is free to help and/or assess individual students.

Here is an stimulating original standards based tag game. There are many more exciting physical education tag games in my book - each is a full lesson plan. Poly Spot Tag

View some selected standards based physical education games from the New York State AHPERD convention at Turning Stone in November. Games

Holiday games are extremely motivational. To see some great holiday games, click on the Games link above. There are also many more standard based holiday games in my book Powerful Original Games

In the category: Physical Education Invasion Games. Wonderful for upper elementary and middle school students. Even high school students will love this game. Roller Ball

Name Games - Name games are great back to school icebreakers. These games include some aerobic and skill benefits as well. To find these games, click on the Games link above or Click here

Can your students create their own standards based games? To help them achieve the goal of creating games, I have invented a game appropriately titled: Games, Games, Games. To find these games, click on the Games link above or Click here

The New York Times Play Magazine has an informative article on stretching and its relationship to games and workouts. Click here

More Powerful Original Games

Sample Volleyball Games and Activities- Here are many games and activities for volleyball. You can also substitute many other kinds of balls and use many of these games for teaching other sports skills.

I presented two workshops at the DuPage County Institute in Naperville, Illinois on February 29th 2008. You can find all of my handouts under PE News. All the handouts have some really excellent standards based games. You can also view a picture from one of these workshops under Great Links. New: check out the latest in easy to play standards based physical education games - Click Here If you were not at this conference, and would like a further explanation of any of these games, please e-mail me with your request.

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Read all about the theory of playing great games with my guest writers Gerry Cernicky and Todd Keating. Check PE Views

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