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This text combines the principles of fitness and walking as a vehicle for games. It provides 40 walking games and activities ranging from learning activities that reinforce basic health, nutrition and safety concepts to games that emphasize co-operation and highly aerobic games. As well as improving fitness, the wide range of games and activities presented are designed to improve participant numeracy, vocabulary and communication skills. Each of the 40 activities includes detailed instructions and teaching tips, worksheets for students to complete, as well as detailed teaching instructions, pre-planned units and mini-lectures on topics such as walking form and nutrition. The volume also contains tips for inclusion to show how everyone can have fun and benefit from walking, as well as sample walking units for primary school children through to college students.

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June I. Decker is a professor and chair of Wellness and Movement Sciences at Western New Mexico University. She has taught walking for 10 years and has been a competitive race walker for 15 years. Decker received a PhD in curriculum and instruction in physical education from the University of New Mexico in 1985. A member of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD), she is former secretary of its Southwest District and a member and former president of the New Mexico Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (NMAHPERD). In 1999 Decker received the Southwest District AAHPERD Honor Award and the NMAHPERD Professional Achievement Award. She is also chair of the board of directors for the New Mexico Senior Olympics. Decker has delivered numerous presentations at the local, state, regional, and national levels--but she believes that her most important accomplishment is her teaching. A resident of Silver City, New Mexico, she enjoys hiking and playing golf and tennis. Monica G. Mize is a professor of health promotion and human performance and director of the physical education teaching program at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. She has been a walking for fitness instructor for six years and has taught physical education for 22 years at every level from kindergarten through university. Mize holds a PhD in physical education with an emphasis in curriculum and instructional strategies, which she received from Southern Illinois University in 1977. AAHPERD's Southwest District has presented her with an Honor Award (2000) and President's Service Award (1998), and she has received multiple awards from the AAHPERD state associations in Utah and Arizona. Mize has served as president of all three organizations. She also received Grambling State University's College of Education Research Award, Teaching/Service Award, and Teacher of the Year Award in 1988. An advocate for physical education and active lifestyles, Mize has made individual and joint presentations on walking at local, state, district, and national conferences. In her spare time she enjoys walking, hiking, backpacking, and playing golf.

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