ND Curriculum Initiative

Subject & Standards

2.Concepts: promotion of health and prevetion of disease: 5. Decision-making and Goal-setting Skills to Enhance Health:

Understandings & Goals

Enduring Understanding: 1. An individual workout program is based on the individual’s life-long fitness goals and is something that is ever changing and should be constantly reevaluated based on their goals. 2. All of the activities are designed to help guide the student toward understanding the issue of personal fitness and how to promote and maintain it as a life-long goal and activity. 3. The project should provide the student with access to some of the resources available, so they can continue to develop and maintain an individual workout program beyond their school experience.
Goal(s): 1. The student will research various fitness workout programs. 2. The student will evaluate fitness equipment and facilities. 3. The student will design an individual fitness workout program.

Questions Answered

Essential questions:1. What are personal fitness goals? 2. How do we measure personal fitness goals? 3. What are examples of fitness programs? 4. What fitness facililites and equipment are available for a fitness plan? 5. How do my personal fitness today relate to my life-long fitness goals?
Objectives:1. The student will determine individual goals for fitness. 2. The student will provide periodic updates of their fitness goals using e-mail. 3. The student will research using literature related to fitness from journal, periodicals, and the World Wide Web. 4. The student will evaluate various fitness facilities and fitness equipment. 5. The student will research and evaluate video (TaeBo, etc.) and TV media (TV shows or commericals) related to fitness. 6. The student will complete an outline or script explaining their personal workout design or facility tour. 7. The student will create a vitual tour of a fitness facility using the media form of their choice (power point/slide show, video, iMovie). 8. The student will demonstrate their individual workout program using the media form of their choice (power point/slide show, video, iMovie).

Assessment

What quiz and test items (e.g. simple content-focused questions that require a single, best answer) will provide evidence of understanding?
Students will be assessed with quizzes on fitness benefits and program design.
What academic prompts (e.g. open-ended questions or problems that require students to think critically and then to prepare a response / product / performance) will provide evidence of understanding?
Students will be asked “What are personal fitness goals?” and “What do they need to do to achieve those personal fitness goals?”
What performance tasks and projects (e.g. complex challenges that are authentic, mirror the real world and require a performance or product) will you include that will provide evidence of student understanding?
1. Students will complete an outline or script explaining their personal workout design or virtual fitness facility tour. 2. Students will demonstrate their individual workout program or facility tour using the media form of their choice. 3. Presentations will be shared with a small group or the entire class.
What other evidence (e.g. observations, work samples, dialogues, student self-assessment) of understanding will you collect?
Students will reflect on the project process and will journal about the progress toward their personal fitness goals.

Instructional Strategies

The project-based learning strategy will enable a student to put it all together. The activities leading up to the final project (goal setting, research, and planning) will allow the students to present and demonstrate that they have acquired knowledge and applied it to the project related to their personal fitness.