lesson2

Title: Lesson 2: Walk to Fitness

Grade Level: Kindergarten through Fifth Grade

Subjects: Physical Education, Health, Math, Social Studies

Learner Outcomes:

Students will participate in the physical activity (hiking).
Students will identify how the physical activity effects their bodies and fitness.
Students complete their journals.

Duration: 30 minute class time
30 minute physical education class time

Materials:

Technology Tools:

Teacher Notes:

Teacher accounts for health and safety concerns for each activity.
Teacher determines the locations and attractions of their choice.
Teacher calculates the mileage to each activity and converts these distances into laps that the students will walk. Example : It is 18 miles from Crab Orchard Elementary to Grandview Visitor Center at New River Gorge National Park. Students will walk 2 laps around the gym/playground to equal 1 mile. Students will need to walk 9 laps to fulfill the daily requirement for this activity.
Teacher needs to create maps and journals for students.
Teacher should review (or create their own) Powerpoint presentation.

Procedures:

Distribute students' journals.
Introduce the first attraction using Microsoft Powerpoint presentation - Grandview Visitor Center (New River Gorge National Park). Show pictures of hiking.
Calculate mileage from Crab Orchard Elementary School to Grandview. Convert miles to laps (that students will walk at school) using calculators. (See above - Teacher Notes)
Discuss the physical effects of walking.
Students participate in activity.
Students complete journal page.

Modifications:

Enrichment:

Students can choose their own attractions and activities.
Students can work in cooperative groups to create their own physical activities, maps and journals.
Students research West Virginia attractions on the Internet on their own.
Students take actual trips to the attractions to perform the activities.
Students record heart rate and calorie readings for each activity.

Evaluation:

National Standards:

Physical Education: Understands the benefits and costs associated with participation in physical activity.
Health: Knows how to maintain and promote personal health;
Math: understands and applies basic and advanced properties of the concepts of measurement.
Social Studies: Know basic elements of maps and globes.

References:

Web sites we used to create this unit.

Additional Websites:

Resource Books:

     County adopted Health series
     From Head to Toe by Eric Carle
     Movin and Groovin by Peggy Buchanan, Linda Swartz

Authors:

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