Overview and Background: Unit: Fitness

Melanie Amerin : Cheney USD 268

Physical Education, Wellness. : Physical Education, Wellness. : Physical Education, Wellness.

Cheney : Grades 5 - 5 : Aug. - Jun.

Title:	Fitness
Topics:	fitness, diet, exercise
Time Frame:
Start Date:	-
Status:	Revised
Date Revised:

Other Designers:

Summary:
Students will study personal fitness to understand its importance to maintaining good health.

Print Materials Needed:

Resources:
Video - Slim Goodbody

Resource Attachments:

Internet Resource Links:

Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

State:	National Standard
Title:	National Association for Sport and Physical Education
Standard(s):	3. Exhibits a physically active lifestyle. 4. Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical fitness. 7. Understand that physical activity provides opportunities for enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and social interaction.

Understandings:
user	Good health choices reduce health risks. Good goal-setting and decision-making skills enhance health choices. Poor health choices affect the body and overall health.

Essential Questions:
User	Why keep your body fit? How important is it to get others involved in staying fit for life? What are the relationships between fitness and health? How is goal-setting important for lifelong health?

Knowledge and Skills:

K
The body needs to be used and maintained in order to live a healthy, productive life.

S
Organize a personal fitness plan.
Measure and record fitness levels.
The importance of regular fitness activity and how it can affect your body with stress, low energy levels, and social implications.

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

Assessment Summary:
Students will organize a personal fitness plan.

Task/Prompt: Personal Trainer

Type: Performance Task

Topics: fitness, diet, exercise

Summary:
The student will organize a personal fitness plan.

Print Materials Needed:
Fitness magazines, articles and/or books

Resources:
Fitness websites

Resource Attachments:

Internet Resource Links:
Link 1: http://
Link 2: http://
Link 3: http://
Link 4: http://
Link 5: http://

Notes:

Student Directions:
Students will be given one of the following scenarios:

1. You are a personal trainer. Your job is to design and organize a fitness plan for your client.

2. You are a client at a fitness center who is in need of a fitness plan.

The two of you will work together to create a fitness plan that will include:
*a work out schedule with the kind of workout and number of days for the workout.
*a log of the client's diet and make suggestions for how to include the 5 food groups for more healthy eating.
*a log of sleep habits and make suggestions for better sleep habits.
*a log of activities (TV, videogames, etc.) and make suggestions for healthier activities.

Other assessment evidence to be collected:

Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

Learning Activities:

W
Discuss fitness topics and get kids thinking about what their current habits are.

H
The students will make an outline of their bodies on white butcher paper. Each student can decorate the outline to resemble themselves. This outline will be sent to a person of the same age (or close to) from another town. A diary will be used to keep track of the level/amount of exercise and healthy activities for one week.

E
*Students will have a journal to write reactions on the "travel" of their paper person and the amount of physical activity encountered. Students will also be able to write a physical fitness plan to improve the level of activity, if needed.
*Fitness worksheets
*Fitness video (Slim Goodbody)

R
Look at someone else's project and make observations or suggestions, if needed.

E Performance tasks over personal trainer.

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