Character Education

Character Education book cover

43 Fitness Activities for Community Building

by Donald Glover and Leigh Ann Anderson
$25.00
For Middle Level & Elementary • K-8

Foster emotional and social connections in physical education classes with the activities presented in Character Education: 43 Fitness Activities for Community Building. This book takes the idea and practice of team building to a higher level while helping teachers meet National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) standards in physical education.

  • Improve cooperation, problem solving, sporting behavior, and empathy in the physical education setting.
  • Meet standards 5, 6, and 7 of the NASPE standards.
  • Learn effective tools for class management.
  • Gain assessment techniques for demonstrating achievement of standards


Don Glover, a widely known authority on community-building and team-building strategies, shares his insights using an easy-to-understand approach. The book includes the following teacher-friendly features:

  • More than 40 illustrated, field-tested team fitness activities for community building
  • Key terms and chapter highlights at the beginning of each chapter
  • Reproducible sample forms for introducing and implementing portfolio assessment, such as self-evaluation forms, parent and peer evaluation forms, fitness goal maps, sample rubrics, and goal and baseline sheets


Human Kinetics, 2003, 256 pages, paper
ISBN: 073604504X