Getting Physically Fit

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Getting Physically Fit

• Focus
• -exercise
• -food

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Lesson Description

• Grade level1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
• This lesson is designed to inform children on how
  to get or stay physically fit. The focus is on
  age appropriate physical activities, and eating
  healthy foods.
• Technology integration In this lesson the
  children will become comfortable with e-mailing,
  researching, graphing, and using Kidspiration

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Activity One

• Content Tek
• (1.13) Reading/literary response. The student
  responds to various texts.
• (C) respond through talk, movement, music, art,
  drama, and writing to a variety of stories and
  poems in ways that reflect understanding
• Technology Tek
• (2) Foundations. The student uses data input
  skills appropriate to the task.
• (A) use a variety of input devices such as mouse,
  keyboard, disk drive, modem, voice/sound
  recorder, scanner, digital video, CD-ROM, or
  touch screen
• Activity 1 We will have a discussion about being
  physically fit. The students will respond
  through an on-line journal (e-mail) to teacher or
  friend.

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Activity Two

• Content Tek
• (1.9) Probability and statistics. The student
  displays data in an organized form.
• (A) collect and sort data
• Technology Tek
• (5) Information acquisition. The student acquires
  electronic information in a variety of formats,
  with appropriate supervision.
• acquire information including text, audio, video,
  and graphics
• Activity 2 Students will research how to be
  physically fit or watch a video and will create a
  table or graph showing their results.

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Activity Three

• Content Tek
• (1.4) Scientific processes. The student uses
  age-appropriate tools and models to verify that
  organisms and objects and parts of organisms and
  objects can be observed, described, and measured.
• (B) record and compare collected information
• Technology Tek
• (4) Information acquisition. The student uses a
  variety of strategies to acquire information from
  electronic resources, with appropriate
  supervision.
• apply keyword searches to acquire information
• Activity 3 The students will research the
  benefits of being healthy. They will record these
  results using Kidspiration.

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Activity Four

• Content Tek
• (1.8) Influencing factors. The student
  understands factors that influence the health of
  an individual.
• name various members of his/her family who help
  them to promote and practice health habits
• Technology Tek
• (2) Foundations. The student uses data input
  skills appropriate to the task.
• (D) produce documents at the keyboard, proofread,
  and correct errors
• Activity 4 Make a table of who in your family
  promotes health habits. On one side have who on
  the other put how they do that. The finished
  draft should be proofread and corrected.

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Activity 5

• Content Tek
• (1.1) Movement. The student demonstrates
  competency in fundamental movement patterns and
  proficiency in a few specialized movement forms.
• (B) demonstrate proper foot patterns in hopping,
  jumping, skipping, leaping, galloping, and
  sliding
• Technology Tek
• (9) Solving problems. The student uses technology
  applications to facilitate evaluation of work,
  both process and product.
• (B) use software features, such as slide show
  previews, to evaluate final product.
• Activity 5 Students will demonstrate fun
  activities that help them remain fit. They will
  take turns recording or taking pictures of these
  activities, and putting the picture or the video
  into a PowerPoint presentation. Presentation
  must be reviewed first.

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Adaptations For Lessons One-Five

• In lesson one advanced students can also try
  instant messaging.
• Lower level students can use a handout with step
  by step instructions. If the student is not able
  to type they can record their message.
• In lesson two advanced students can focus on
  researching on the internet and their graphs can
  include all relevant labels.
• Lower level students can watch the video for
  research and their graph can be a pictograph.
• In lesson three advanced students can use
  Kidspiration and try Inspiration and also their
  search can be more specific.
• Lower level students can focus on Kidspiration
  and their search should be more general.

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AdaptationsFor Lessons One-Five (Continued)

• In lesson four advanced students can insert a
  picture of their family member their writing
  about.
• Lower level students can type up the information
  as a Word document and focus on learning to use
  the tools that help them proof-read their
  document.
• In lesson five advanced students can edit the
  pictures or add borders to the pictures.
• Lower level students can be in charge of
  explaining the activities if they are not
  physically able to perform the movements.

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Management, roles, location, and special
considerations for lessons one-five

• During the activities the students will be in the
  computer lab. The students should be monitored
  by the teacher and two parent assistants. The
  assistants will help keep the students on task,
  and will be there to help instruct students and
  demonstrate how to use e-mail, Excel,
  Kidspiration, Word, and how to use the cameras.
  The learners role is to learn how to use the
  software, selected tools and stay on task.
  Teachers need to consider the fact that students
  could possible begin to search the internet, so
  they must be monitored closely and have reviewed
  all rules ahead of time. Another consideration
  is that all students may not understand the
  software immediately so there must be enough help
  for all students. When doing physical activities
  parents must be notified so if there are any
  health problems you will know ahead of time.
  Digital cameras could also be easy to break if
  dropped. The student should be informed on how
  to use all technology tools properly. Any
  students that misuse the computer will be asked
  to leave the computer.

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Websites Essential For This Unit

• http//www.fitnessandkids.com/
• This website is a teacher resource. The teacher
  can use this site to find out information about
  being physically fit before starting the lesson.
  This site has article, exercise videos for kids,
  activities they can do, kids exercise chart, and
  a food pyramid for kids.
• http//www.usask.ca/education/ideas/tplan/pedlp/ae
  robics.htm
• This site can be used to give ideas to add into
  the lesson, its good for pre-teaching. This is
  a fitness unit done by another teacher.
• http//www.gameskidsplay.net/
• This site could be used by the teacher or the
  student. There are list of fitness games that
  kids can play. When the kids present an activity
  they can get ideas from this site. Or the
  teacher could have them play some of these games.

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Websites Essential For This Unit (continued)

• http//www.kidshealth.org/index_noflash.html
• -This site is for kids, parents, and teens. As
  they research they can go to this site. It
  provides them with articles about their health,
  healthy recipes kids love, and they can play
  interactive games about their body.
• -Also teachers can use this site to help develop
  a newsletter. This site has articles about
  developments of kids, and how the parents can
  keep their kids healthy.
• http//www.kidshealth.org/kid/
• This link is part of the site above it just goes
  directly to the links for kids.

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Helpful Software

• Pyramid Explorer Nutrition Adventures
• -Publisher Nutrition Education Services Oregon
  Dairy Council
• -Hardware Mac, Win
• -Level Elementary, Middle
• -This software shows the food pyramid in an
  understandable way, and has games for kids to
  play.
• Pyramid Challenge
• -Publisher Dine Systems
• -Hardware Mac, Win
• -Level Elementary, Middle, Secondary
• -Using this software the students will compare
  their diets to their needs using the food pyramid
• Kidspiration, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

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Technology Tools

• DVD player-The students can use the DVD player
  while they are watching the video on health and
  fitness.
• Digital Camera-The students can use the digital
  camera to take picture of themselves playing
  games that promote fitness. They can then have
  them inserted into PowerPoint.
• Camcorder The teacher can record the students
  being physically active. This could be used for
  assessment purposes.

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The Impact of This Unit

• This fitness unit will impact the quality of
  available technology. Fitness is something that
  can be meaningful to the kids. When learning
  about this topic technology is integrated and not
  just tacked on top of the lesson. The students
  are able to use the technology in a meaningful
  way. The graphs are a visual for the students to
  help them understand the statistics. Inserting
  family pictures helps them feel good about
  themselves and their family, and learning to type
  and send e-mails is going to be very useful to
  their future.

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Alternatives To Failed Technology

• If the selected technology fails on the day of
  the assignment there are alternatives. When
  using technology there must be a backup plan.
  For the on-line research assignments you should
  supply a numerous amount of books that the kids
  could look through for research. Instead of
  taking digital pictures the kids could draw a
  layout of the activity with the instructions on
  the back. The students could talk to a partner
  or hand write a journal of their thoughts. They
  could draw graphs on butcher paper.

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Technology Modifications

• If there is only one computer the class can be
  set up in centers. There will be four to six in
  a group that will rotate. For example a group
  can do book research while the other group does
  computer research or is beginning to type their
  journals, or make graphs.
• My ideal technology setting would be to have
  enough computers in my classroom for each
  student. That way they could use the computer
  whenever it fit with an assignment, this would be
  real integration. They could type an assignment
  instead of writing it or they could send me and
  e-mail if they had a question. It would also be
  nice if I had enough digital cameras to loan out
  to students. This way they would be able to take
  pictures and it wouldnt take away from class
  time.

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Addressing the Different Types of Technology?

• This unit addresses technology in three ways. It
  addresses technology as a subject. This is done
  in lesson one by introducing the students to
  e-mail. Typing an e-mail is the main focus of
  their learning. In lesson three Kidspiration is
  used to get the facts across. This method is
  using technology as content delivery. In lesson
  two technology is used as a lesson support. The
  students are focusing on collecting and sorting
  data. Making a table or graph is another
  alternative to add to this lesson.

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Addresses The enGauge 21st Century Skills

• In lesson four the student are using Digital-Age
  Literacy by learning to form a table in Microsoft
  Word this helps them become technology literate.
• The children can be introduced to Inventive
  Thinking in lesson two. They will be conducting
  their own research and come to their own
  conclusion about how to be healthy based on their
  findings.
• In lesson five the students will be using
  Effective Communication. They will have to
  interact with peers, and develop interpersonal
  skills to come up with fun activities with their
  group to get their heart rate up.
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