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PE Central (pecentral.org) is the most widely used Web site for health and physical education teachers, parents, and students. Resources on the site include over 2000 physical education and health lesson ideas and Best Practices, Professional Development online courses and on-site workshops, a growing media center including 100+ videos, and a series of programs designed to motivate children to improve their fitness levels (Log It), activity skills (The PE Central Challenge) and their health and nutrition knowledge. PE Central began back in 1995 as part of a doctoral seminar taught by Dr. George Graham at Virginia Tech. There were ten doctoral students sitting around a conference table and Dr. Graham asked us to come up with an idea that we are going to work on for the rest of the year. He strongly suggested that we do something that involves the “Internet”. We brainstormed and one of the 15 ideas we came up with was to build a website that housed free lessons and assessments for K-12 p

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