Our goal with this page is to provide you with some great ideas for times of the year. On the right, you will find some fantastic sites that we find helpful year-round. Below, you will soon find active links to each season (and maybe a few others as we get going) that we find inspiring during the season. Enjoy!

• Fall (September-October)
• Winter (November-January)
• Pre-Spring (February-March)
• Spring Fever (April-May)
• Summer (June-August)
• Resources for Curriculum Review--NEW!

Other Cool New Sites to Try:

• A Running Start Youth Coaching Resources. New York Road Runners Launches Free Coaching Tools--A Running Start offers a FREE online collection of 83 coaching videos developed by New York Road Runners to teach the fundamentals of running. Created with a team of expert youth coaches and exercise physiologists is designed for coaches and PE teachers who want to teach kids how to run. Check out this great website that already has things organized by elementary, middle, and high school levels and then segmented into Warm-up and Cool-down, stretching and strength training, form, pacing, and games!

• Ready to start the school year with your students discussing some issues like bullying and taking a stand? Need some new ideas on character building and doing the right thing? Check out the resources from NEA for all levels!

• DASH to information to promote Health Enhancement!

  The CDC Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) promotes the health and well-being of children and adolescents to enable them to become healthy and productive adults.  To access this site and position papers on child obesity, nutrition, physical activity and safety: http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/about/index.htm

  To go directly to information linking student health and academic achievement: http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/health_and_academics/index.htm#3

• The Gateway:  The Gateway expands educators' capability to access Internet-based lesson plans, instructional units and other educational materials in all forms and formats. The Gateway's goal is to improve the organization and accessibility of the substantial collections of materials that are already available on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites. Go to www.thegateway.org now!

• Getting excited for that first day of school? Check out this link from PE Central on Classroom Management: http://www.pecentral.org/climate/index.html

• If you haven't checked out the Let's Move site, you need to! Titled "America's Move to Raise a Healthier Generation of Kids", it has some great resources on a great-looking, user-friendly site. Go to www.letsmove.gov and read all about it!

• The President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition has been revamped and is also looking stellar, with links to some antional guidelines and initiatives. Go to www.fitness.gov to see what's new!

• Get Outdoors USA is helping to spark the national movement to "help our children seek out healthy, active outdoor lives and to embrace America's Great Outdoors--our parks, our forests, our refuges and other public lands and waters." What Montanan doesn't like the sound of that? Check it out at www.getoutdoorsusa.org.

Know of a great site that you think belongs on our list? Email us today and let us know!