These tools allow students to keep records, graph progress, create simulations and compare performance to national statistics. On-line services provide added information about health issues and fitness. Technology provides students with tools comparable to those used in the professional fitness and health fields. Learn and contribute productively as individuals and as members of groups. Students learn to recognize individual strengths, resolve differences and use teamwork as a necessary tool for working with others.
Teamwork is also integral to many sports.
Sports in turn teach the elements of teamwork in other fields. One overall goal of physical development is to give students the knowledge and skills necessary for working on teams to achieve specific objectives or a common goal. Recognize and apply connections of important information and ideas within and among learning areas. The quality of students' physical fitness and health is an important factor in their readiness to learn. In addition to creating the physical conditions for learning, the subject areas of physical development and health directly relate to other academic content.