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Iowa Association For Health, Physical Education, Recreation And Dance (IAHPERD)

Association Sites:

Central District Association web site
The CDA Web site is designed to keep interested professionals informed on what is happening at the district level and within our nine states.
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance web site
AAHPERD is the largest organization of professionals supporting and assisting those involved in physical education, leisure, fitness, dance, health promotion, and education and all specialties related to achieving a healthy lifestyle.

Athletic Training / Injury Prevention
- Research: Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center
- Practice: ACC (NZ) SportSmart
- Practice: California State Univ. Chico Athletic Training Homepage
Biomechanics
- Biomechanics Homepage
  coaches'inforservice wonderful for biomechanics information that is sport specific.
Nutrition
- Australian Institute of Sport/Nutrition
- Gatorade Sports Science Institute
Outdoor / Adventure Education
- Association for Experiential Education Home Page
  The Association for Experiential Education (AEE) is a not-for-profit, international professional organization with roots in adventure education, committed to the development, practice, and evaluation of experiential learning in all settings.
Physical Activity / Sport Specific
- National Center for Bicycling and Walking
- Analytic Cycling provides technical methods for evaluating and estimating cycling performance and parameters. It makes extensive use of differential equations and advanced numerical methods.
- The National Center on Physical Activity and Disability (NCPAD) www.ncpad.org encourages persons with disabilities to engage in regular physical activity so as to maintain good health and prevent the development of secondary conditions
Physical Education

Model School Wellness Policies
In the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004, the U.S. Congress established a new requirement that all school districts with a federally-funded school meals program develop and implement wellness policies that address nutrition and physical activity by the start of the 2 school year.

PELINKS4U is a non-profit program of Central Washington University dedicated to promoting active and healthy lifestyles
Sports Media - http://www.sports-media.org - is an interactive international PE Curricular Web site dedicated to providing lesson plans, tips, drills, activities and other teaching aids for the physical education teacher.Sports Media feels that the use of ICT by learners offers enormous potential to enhance learning in all subjects - also for physical education & sports.Sports Media has members who are nationally- and internationally-recognized experts in physical education, sports, fitness, coaching, health and nutrition. Sports Media is developed and maintained by an international association of professors and p.e. teachers.

Physiology and Medicine
- Stephen Seiler's Master's Athlete Physiology and Performance
- Merck Manuals: Diagnosis/Therapy and Med Info
- Karolinska Institute's Resources
- Medline at Medscape (needs registration)
Sport History / Philosophy
- ISHPES home page
  The International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport (ISHPES) is the umbrella organisation for sports historians all over the world.
Sport Management
- Kinesology- Related Jobs
- Sport Management Info. Centre at UNB
Sport Science General
- SIRC Home Page
  Sport Information Resource Centre provides a world of sport information at your fingertips. SIRC produces the SPORT Database, publishes a thesaurus, bibliographies , maintains a current awareness publication , provides document delivery services and works with the International Rugby Football Board as the International Rugby information Centre
- Sport Science
  The premier Web Site for Sport Scientists.
- National Library of Medicine/Journals
Sport Technology
- Sports Technology Hotlist