Lessons from the Heart: Individualizing Physical Education with Heart Rate Monitors [Paperback]

Beth Kirkpatrick (Author), Burton H. Birnbaum (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0880117648 | ISBN-13: 978-0880117647 | Publication Date: March 1997

Presents 37 practical lesson plans that help teachers enrich and individualize physical education through the use of heart rate monitors (HRMS). Each lesson in the text lists goals, key concepts, materials needed, a description of the activity and teaching tips.

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About the Author

With 20 years’ experience teaching health and physical education at the middle school level, Beth Kirkpatrick is dedicated to preparing children to have the mental, physical, and emotional health to withstand lifestyles beyond the year 2000. Her excellent teaching methods have earned her many awards, including NASPE Teacher of the Year, Governor’s Cup for Outstanding Secondary Physical Education Program of Iowa, and U.S. West Outstanding Teacher of Iowa. In 1988 she became the only physical educator to receive the U.S. Department of Education’s Christa McAuliffe Fellowship.

Kirkpatrick’s physical education program has been featured in Life Magazine, Newsweek, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Arnold’s Fitness for Kids, and on the NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw. Active in professional organizations, she is a member of the PE/TV Board of Advisors and a former chair of NASPE’s Middle and Secondary School Physical Education Council. She has also been a keynote speaker to national and state AHPERD conventions and to more than 300 other conferences, workshops, and conventions nationwide.

A recipient of the 1993-94 Emens Distinguished Professorship at Ball State University (Muncie, IN), Kirkpatrick lives in Grundy Center, Iowa.

Burton H. Birnbaum is vice chairman of Polar Electro, Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of heart rate monitoring, registering, and evaluation equipment. He designed the first pulsemeter, which was introduced to the sporting goods industry in 1977. Since then, he has been instrumental in developing programs for the use of heart rate monitors in education and has been a key supporter of incorporating technology into physical education.

A member of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Birnbaum holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from New York University and an MBA from Bernard Baruch College. He is a resident of Woodmere, New York.

Product Details

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers (March 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0880117648
• ISBN-13: 978-0880117647
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,036,220 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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