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HK’s top TGFU Titles

Pub Date: 2005

ISBN 13: 9780736045940

Price (Cdn): $31.95

Binding: Paper

Pages: 248

Size: 7x10

Pub Date: 2010

ISBN 13: 9780736083348

Price (Cdn): $30.95

Binding: Paper

Pages: 296

Size: 7x10

  A comprehensive review of the TGfU model, detailing the history, theory, research, and practice of the approach.

  Explores why and how to involve students in the construction of games, how to use the model in curriculum at the elementary and secondary levels and in teacher education programs, and how assessment is included.

  Multiple perspectives from 17 contributors in 6 countries.

  Practical application of TGfU within the PE curriculum.

  This new book is based on the Fourth International TGfU Conference held in 2008 and includes all-new chapters with entirely new material.

  Features various models of practice for sport and games education, how to facilitate flow motion in games and sports, and how to modify games to enhance learning and achieve learning objectives.

  How to move from a traditional to a tactical games teaching approach with detailed unit and lesson plans, a DVD-ROM with video clips and reproducibles, and a Game Performance Assessment Instrument (GPAI)

  Contains more than 330 ready-to-use lessons to help teachers apply TGfU

  Elementary lessons teach basic concepts and tactics by sport type (Invasion, Net and wall, Striking and fielding, Target sports)

  Lessons for middle and high school students delve more deeply into 12 sports (Soccer, Basketball, Lacrosse, Rugby, Flag Football, Volleyball, Badminton, Tennis, Softball, Cricket, Golf, Bowling)

  Focusing on tactical awareness helps students develop problem-solving skills through game play. The tactical approach also allows teachers to individualize instruction for novice, developing, and advanced performers by either reducing or increasing the challenge of the tasks involved.

Pub Date: 2013 Binding: Paper

ISBN 13: 9781450411226 Pages: 672

Price: $63.95 CAD Size: 8.5x11

HK’s top TGFU Titles NEW

  A foundational university text for “teaching sport education” courses or related games-teaching courses, and a reference for K-12 PE teachers.

  Offers theory and application for games, sports, and fitness activities, as well as online teacher resources that make it easy to prepare for, administer, and assess the program.

  New edition features even more practical examples and real-world applications from both elementary and secondary levels, including a series of team practice cards that teachers and team coaches can use to plan practices, and templates that allow teachers to choose among several game-play performance indicators (techniques and tactics, rules and strategies, fair play, and so on).

  A greater emphasis on activity and fitness, showing how the Sport Education model is appropriate for various activities such as swimming, weightlifting, aerobic routines and hiking.


ISBN 13: 9780736098380 Pages: 224



  This flexible model of sport pedagogy can be applied as a whole or one element at a time, with a thorough analysis of skilled performance and an outline of the conditions under which people best learn.

  Over 130 illustrations and photos demonstrate specific approaches, ideas that can work for multiple sports, and ways to apply the approach with beginners through elite players.

  It also shows how the strategies of simplifying, shaping, focusing, and enhancing can help you create situations to maximize learning and positively influence the attitudes of learners.

  Covers a wide range of team and individual sports, including archery, table tennis, flag football, snow skiing, cricket, and track and field.

  Two bonus chapters about the origins, evolution, and theoretical bases for Play Practice are available free for download at HumanKinetics.com/PlayPractice.


ISBN 13: 9780736097000 Pages: 256


HK’s top TGFU Titles NEW

  This book offers great tools for teaching attack and defense games. Kids learn attack and defense tactics, team formations, and man-to-man and zone defenses.

  Includes an introduction to using generic games to develop key skills and tactics, and sample games that you can use to develop gross motor skills and tactical understanding.

  Sport-specific sections have ideas for games you can use with children in teaching traditional school sports including Basketball, Badminton, Netball and Football (Soccer).

  Features questions and coaching points you can use at key moments in teaching tactics and strategies as the kids play the games.

  Support materials are provided for authentic assessment that enhances rather than intrudes on the learning experience.


ISBN 13: 9780736075183 Pages: 152



  Guides teachers and students from early elementary school through college design games that are inclusive, creative, educational, and fun. Students can adapt games they already play or create new ones with templates.

  Allows students to develop tactical understanding as they design games; instill a sense of ownership of the games, and therefore greater motivation to take part; feel included because they have a voice in the scoring, equipment, space, and rules, all of which are limited only by their imagination and available resources; and learn how to respect competitors and work toward common goals with partners.

  The games can all be connected to standards for becoming physically educated as defined by local, national, and international organizations.

  Includes ready-to-use assessments and rubrics so that teachers and students can evaluate the game-making process and the quality of the games created.


ISBN 13: 9780736085908 Pages: 192

Price: $26.95 CAD Size: 7x10


  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.

  Includes warm-up, circuit, and station activities; physical fitness challenges, relay races, and literacy and drama activities; and cooperative games. All are adaptable for a range of ages, abilities, and skill levels.

  A special Eco Thoughts feature offers simple takeaways with each activity, and the game finder helps you quickly choose the right one for each class.

  The activities can be played in the gym, classroom, or outdoors and require little or no equipment. Many activities repurpose everyday recyclable items for play, such as cards from recycled paper, balls from socks, and bowling pins from plastic bottles.

  An active learning approach to environmental stewardship, by Canadian authors.


ISBN 13: 97814504199901 Pages: 128


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  An easy-to-use reference that helps physical educators deliver effective outdoor activities.

  Each chapter presents the purpose of the lessons, the learning outcomes, equipment required, operating principles, skill sets, and risk management. This overview is followed by a series of detailed lesson plans.

  Features 21 units with 140 sound lesson plans that are field tested and flexible—meaning they can be adapted for any leader’s use.

  The CD-ROM offers printable lesson plans, worksheets, assessment tools, and more, and contains all the units featured in the book 8 additional units that are not included in the book.

  Features units such as camping, navigation, environment ethics, hiking/backpacking, archery, snowshoeing, mountain biking, fishing, canoeing/kayaking, skiing, risk management, weather and outdoor survival.


ISBN 13: 9780736071314 Pages: 448


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  A comprehensive multimedia resource package filled with great ideas for getting groups moving and having fun, and promoting daily physical activity.

  This resource is packed with teacher-tested ideas for activity in limited space such as hallways, classrooms, and utility rooms (or in the expanse of the great outdoors), with limited equipment.

  Features a teacher guide with 54 fun fitness activities, 32 moving-to-music activities, 14 choreographed line dances, tips on training leaders, and 9 keys to implementing a daily physical activity program

  A CD is included with 80 minutes of music for use with fitness station activities, aerobics, and 3- to 10-minute dance routines.

  The DVD-ROM includes over 90 minutes of video showing 14 dance routines with over 100 selected moves and breakdowns of routines, as well as more than 230 reproducible PDF activity cards.


ISBN 13: 9780736082310 Pages: 256



  The games use easy-to-find and inexpensive equipment in non-traditional ways to provide a diverse selection of innovative games for very little money. The unusual equipment will capture participants’ interests, and some games call for no equipment at all.

  The games require little organization and provide great opportunities to include children of all ages and abilities. They are also adaptable to various settings and occasions, and inclusive so that no player starts with an advantage.

  Divided into seven categories: rubber chickens; foam pool noodles; tennis balls; tag; rock, paper, scissors; games with equipment bought at dollar stores; and games with equipment bought at hardware stores.

  Presented for quick understanding to allow facilitation with a minimum of prep time. Each game includes objective, number of players, type of equipment needed, setup, and rules.


ISBN 13: 9780736063920 Pages: 264



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