Joe Deutsch

Since 1985, the United States has celebrated Park and Recreation Month in July to promote building strong, vibrant and resilient communities through the power of parks and recreation and to recognize the more than 160,000 full-time park and recreation professionals – along with hundreds of thousands of part-time and seasonal workers and volunteers – who maintain our country’s local, state and community parks. Parks are at the center of so many of our experiences and memories.

If you are planning to run away to the circus, why not take your elementary students along for the ride? A circus unit in physical education is one of the greatest gifts you can give a child. It is impressive how a circus unit opens up their creativity and self-expression skills, builds their self-esteem and provides them with a unique way to stay physically active (Price, Citation2012).

Open AccessArticle by Jenny Linker , Bradford Strand , Joe Deutsch , Seungmin Kang , Kelsey Slater , Alaina Driscoll and Ryan McGrath * Department of Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108, USA * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.