Beacon Lesson Plan LibraryDoes Your Fitness Compute?Jill David et alDescriptionStudents chart and analyze baseline data pertaining to improving and maintaining fitness levels.StandardsFlorida Sunshine State StandardsAT.1.1.4.1 Demonstrates ability to gather information from various sources to plan a project. AT.1.1.4.2 Creates a collaborative and comprehensive plan which addresses specific events, products, or projects either personally or for the work place. HE.C.1.4.4 The student knows how to implement a plan for attaining personal health goals for the school year and knows methods for evaluating progress. PE.A.3.4.6 The student understands the importance of making a commitment to physical activity as an important part of one's lifestyle. PE.B.1.4.1 The student knows how to maintain appropriate levels of cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition necessary for a healthy lifestyle. PE.B.1.4.2 The student knows how to apply the results of fitness assessments to guide changes in a personal program of physical activity and develop a training and conditioning program that enhances individual health-related needs. PE.B.1.4.3 The student uses technology to assess, enhance, and maintain fitness and skills. PE.C.2.4.3 The student knows the ways in which personal characteristics, performance styles, and activity preferences will change over the course of one's life. Florida Process Standards Information Managers 01 Florida students locate, comprehend, interpret, evaluate, maintain, and apply information, concepts, and ideas found in literature, the arts, symbols, recordings, video and other graphic displays, and computer files in order to perform tasks and/or for enjoyment. Effective Communicators 02 Florida students communicate in English and other languages using information, concepts, prose, symbols, reports, audio and video recordings, speeches, graphic displays, and computer-based programs. Numeric Problem Solvers 03 Florida students use numeric operations and concepts to describe, analyze, communicate, synthesize numeric data, and to identify and solve problems. Critical and Creative Thinkers 04 Florida students use creative thinking skills to generate new ideas, make the best decision, recognize and solve problems through reasoning, interpret symbolic data, and develop efficient techniques for lifelong learning. Responsible and Ethical Workers 05 Florida students display responsibility, self-esteem, sociability, selfmanagement, integrity, and honesty. Resource Managers 06 Florida students will appropriately allocate time, money, materials, and other resources. Systems Managers 07 Florida students integrate their knowledge and understanding of how social, organizational, informational, and technological systems work with their abilities to analyze trends, design and improve systems, and use and maintain appropriate technology. Cooperative Workers 08 Florida students work cooperatively to successfully complete a project or activity. Effective Leaders 09 Florida students establish credibility with their colleagues through competence and integrity and help their peers achieve their goals by communicating their feelings and ideas to justify or successfully negotiate a position which advances goal attainment. Materials- Chart paper or chalkboard- Markers or chalk - Computers and printer - Spreadsheet computer software - Printer paper - Folders for evaluation portfolios - Copies of the rubric found in the attached file PreparationsReview the chapters in the personal fitness textbook relating to the five health related fitness components.ProceduresKnowledge/Skills-Students will assess, enhance, and maintain cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength, and muscular endurance through the use of technology. Authentic Context: You are a personal trainer who has been hired to oversee the cardiovascular, muscular strength, and endurance programs for your clients. Using a computer spreadsheet program, you will chart your clients' baseline data and progress. After analyzing the data, you will determine if your clients are improving or maintaining their fitness levels. You will also create an evaluation portfolio for each of your clients. 1. Brainstorm with the class how technology can be used to assess, enhance, and maintain fitness levels. Record student responses. 2. Discuss how the spreadsheet program will be used to monitor progress toward fitness goals. Brainstorm and discuss with students what measurements would be needed on the spreadsheet. 3. Divide the students into groups of three. Each student is responsible for acting as the personal trainer of the other two students in their group for three weeks. Every three weeks students rotate roles. 4. In their groups, students develop a cardiovascular, muscular strength, and endurance program for their clients. Students determine the measurements that will be observed and recorded. Students design the spreadsheet that will be used to record the data. 5. Each personal trainer charts his client's baseline data at the beginning of the implementation of the cardiovascular, muscular strength, and endurance programs. 6. At various intervals, measurements are taken and entered into the spreadsheet. Each personal trainer follows the progress of his or her clients. Using the spreadsheet, the personal trainer determines if his or her clients are improving or maintaining their fitness levels. 7. At the end of three weeks, the personal trainers calculate their clients' charts and write a one-page report on the findings for the evaluation portfolio of each client. AssessmentsUse the Rubric for Client Evaluation Portfolio (See attached file) to assess the activity.Self-Reflection: How can technology be used to assess, enhance, and maintain fitness levels? Return to the Beacon Lesson Plan Library. |