lesson4

Title: Lesson 4: Reach for the Top

Grade Level: Kindergarten through Fifth Grade

Subjects: Health, Physical Education, Math, Social Studies

Learner Outcomes:

Students participate in the activity (climbing). We will be exercising to substitute for the actual rock climbing.
Students state how rock climbing/exercising will help to build upper body strength.
Students complete their journal pages.

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

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Teacher Notes:

Teacher accounts for any health and safety concerns for the activity.
Teacher determines the minutes of exercising at school.
Teacher determines the miles from the last attraction (Cunard-Kaymoor Trail) to New River Gorge National Park climbing area Endless Wall.
Example: It is 7 miles from Cunard-Kaymoor Trail to the Endless Wall climbing area. Students will exercise for 1 minute for each mile. Students will need to exercise for 7 minutes to fulfill the daily requirement for this activity.

Procedures:

Distribute student journals.
Introduce this part of the unit (rock climbing at Endless Wall) with the Powerpoint presentation.
Describe the benefits of developing upper body strength.
Calculate mileage from Cunard-Kaymoor Trail to the Endless Wall climbing area using calculators.
Students perform exercises in their physical education class as a substitute for actual rock climbing.
Students complete their journal pages.

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.

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