Title: Lesson 3: Pedal for Physical Power

Grade Level: Kindergarten through Fifth Grade

Subjects: Health, Physical Education, Math, Social Studies

Learner Outcomes:

• Students will participate in the physical activity (biking).
• Students state how the physical activity effects their bodies and fitness.
• Students complete their journal pages.

Materials:

• Pictures of people performing different activities.
• Student journals.
• Trail map of New River Gorge National Park Cunard-Kaymoor Trail.   Adobe Acrobat file
• Bicycles (students can bring them from home)

 

Technology Tools:

• Computer with Internet access
• Projection device
• Powerpoint presentation
• Mapping software or visit the web site
• Calculators

• Teacher accounts for any health and safety concerns for the activity.
• Teacher calculates the mileage to each activity and converts the distance into laps/miles to be completed at school.
• Teacher determines the distance from the last attraction (Grandview Visitor Center) to the Cunard-Kaymoor Trail.
• Example: It is 40 miles from Grandview to Cunard-Kaymoor Trail. One lap riding around the playground on a bike equals 5 miles.  Students will need to ride 8 laps to fulfill the daily requirement for the activity.

1. Distribute the student journals.
2. Introduce this attraction (Cunard-Kaymoor Trail) using the Powerpoint presentation.
3. Calculate actual mileage from Grandview Visitor Center to the Cunard-Kaymoor Trail.  Convert the miles to laps (using calculators) the students will bike in physical education class.
4. Discuss the physical effects of riding a bike. What body systems does it affect? What are the benefits of biking?
5. Students participate in the activity.
6. Students complete journals.

• Follow IEP and 504 plans where applicable.
• Activities can be modified according to the ages and abilities of students.

• 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.

• Rubric
• Completion of activities
• Completion of journal pages

• 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.

 

• Physical Education: PE: 5.3.5, 4.5.1, 5.3.1, 5.3.3, 4.3.3, 3.3.2, 5.4.2
  
• Health: HE: 1.4.3, 2.6.2, 2.7.2, 3.1.6, 3.3.1, 5.1.1
  
• Social Studies: SS: 4.4.2, 3.4.1, 4.4.10, WV.4.1-WV.4.9
  

Web sites we used to create this unit.

• West Virginia Parks
• National Parks Service
• Army Corps of Engineers

  Brainpop.com for health movies and quizzes.
  Kidsrunning.com for writing and running activities.
  Jump Into a Healthy Life (Thinkquest)

  Resource Books:

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

Authors:

• Debbie Jackson
• Sue O'Neal
• Mindy Waldron

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