FIRST AID | STAYING HEALTHY | KEEPING FIT
GOALS
A commitment to being active, eating right and keeping physically fit include activities to enjoy and share with others. Design and manage your own fitness plans, keep your fitness information on file, and develop computer skills or other creative ways to present information. Additional goals of this project include:
- Completing a self-assessment about your current knowledge of fitness information and personal fitness levels
- Interviewing others about the benefits of fitness
- Monitoring your own eating and hydration habits
- Recognizing nutrient rich "pwer foods"
- Investigating supplements and performance enhancers
- Planning personal warm-up routines to help remain injury free
- Designing your own fitness plan
- Keeping your fitness records on file in a format to share with others
LEARNER OUTCOMES
This curriculum will help you design a personal fitness plan and track it using your own fitness file. You will also practice a variety of life skills including gathering information, making decisions, speaking with others and managing yourself. By gathering and keeping fitness information on file, you will have the opportunity to develop and use computer skills or present information in other creative ways that best suit each individual.
EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS
ACTIVITY |
EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS |
| Introduction: Be Smart About Your Health | NS.K-12.F: Science in personal and social perspectives; personal health and exercise |
| Do a Search: Find Out About Fitness | NL-ENG.K-12.7: |
| Process Information: Fitness Feedback |
NL-ENG.K-12.7: Gather, evaluate and synthesize data to communicate to others |
| Hydration for High Performance | NM.K-12: Data analysis; collect and organize data |
| Fitness Food: Organize Your Favorites | NS.K-12.F: Science in personal and social perspectives; understanding nutrition |
| Enhancers and Supplements: Delete the Junk | NL-ENG.K-12.3: Apply strategies to comprehend and interpret text |
| System Configuration for Optimum Performance | NS.K-12.F: Science in personal and social perspectives; exercise |
| Safety First: Avoid a Crash | NS.K-12.F: Science in personal and social perspectives; health and safety |
| Creating Your Own Files: Your Fitness Facts | NS.K-12.F: Science in personal and social perspectives; personal health |
| Customize Your Files | NSS.K-12.4: Individual development and identity; remembering past achievements |
| Use Your Files | NSS.K-12.4: Individual development and identity; remembering past achievements |
| Sharing Your Files | NL-ENG.K-12.8: Use a variety of technological / information resources to create and communicate knowledge |
LINKS
Benefits of fitness for kids:
http://www.stayinginshape.com/4trover/libv/d07.shtml
http://kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/fit/fit_kid.html
Heart health:
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/heart_noSW.html
Water intake before exercise – how much and when:
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/water.html
Stretching suggestions:
http://www.waycoolrunning.com/tips.shtml
Staying injury free in sports
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/fit/sport_safety.html
FIRST AID | STAYING HEALTHY | KEEPING FIT
