教材插图是与其文字部分互为表里的“第二语言”，是学科教学与思政育人同向同行的重要媒介。从课程思政育人的角度来说，初中体育与健康课程学生用书（七年级全一册）（简称为初中体育新教材）的插图是塑造初中学生价值观、辅助初中学生学习运动技能、促进初中学生弘扬体育精神、引导初中学生形成健康生活方式的有效载体。然而，当前的初中体育新教材的插图设计存在对初中学生身心发展特点把握不准、思政元素融入生硬、中华优秀传统体育文化挖掘有限、缺少交互体验设计的问题，其原因是插图创作设计理念有待更新、插图创作机制不够完善、插图创作时投入的必要资源不足、数字化制图技术应用程度较低。据此提出改进路径：1）进一步促进教材插图的有效组合和优化；2）构建科学合理的教材插图评价标准；3）推动数字化制图技术的使用；4）组建多方参与的教材插图创作团队；5）建设和使用教材插图资源共享平台。

Textbook Illustrations are the second language that complements the textual content, and it is an important medium to realize the same direction of subject teaching and ideological and political education. From the point of view of curriculum-based ideological and political education, the illustrations in the student book for junior high school Physical Education and Health courses serve as effective vehicles for shaping junior high school students’ values, facilitating the acquisition of motor skills, expressing promoting sportsmanship, and fostering healthy lifestyles. However, the current illustration design of the student books for the junior high school Physical Education and Health course has the problems of inaccurate grasp of students’ physical and mental characteristics, rigid integration of ideological and political elements, limited exploration of excellent traditional Chinese sports culture, and the lack of interactive experience design, which is attributed to the fact that the illustration design concepts need to be updated, the illustration creation mechanism is inadequate, the necessary resources invested in illustration creation are insufficient, and the degree of application of digital illustration technology is relatively low. Accordingly, the following improvement paths are proposed: 1) to further promote the effective combination and optimization of textbook illustrations; 2) to construct scientific and reasonable evaluation standards for textbook illustrations; 3) to promote the use of digital illustration technology; 4) to form a multi-party textbook illustration creation team; and 5) to build and use a resource-sharing platform for textbook illustrations.