“Math, English, Science, and History departments,” the speaker announced. “Your PBL training will begin at 1:00 in the media center. P.E. will be collaborating down in the locker room.” It’s a common enough scenario, a segregation of subject areas that does a disservice to one of the most engaging classes in school, Physical Education.

But I want to push back on this scenario in a big way because P.E. can easily bring Project Based Learning into our schools’ fitness labs, gyms, and onto our fields. After all, PBL is all about meaningful learning, and what is more meaningful to our students than how their own bodies operate and how their own health is maintained?