My students are on all levels of the spectrum in terms of physical ability and interests. Students at my school come to physical education with an excitement to learn and reach their goals. The goals our students set vary from improving their skill set for a specific sport to just improving their overall health.
Our students are at an age where they can excel at anything they want to if given the chance.
I want to be able to offer unique and meaningful experiences in physical education for my students to help my students reach their goals.
My Project
This project will allow our physical education program to teach our students about the 5 health components of fitness; flexibility, cardio-respiratory endurance, muscular endurance, muscular strength and body composition. These components are very hard to understand and grasp each concept by just discussion. With each component, their is an assessment that measures the student's level. Each student would get their score and understand how their score relates to their health. This is something students will do once at beginning of year and again at the end. They will track their scores according to the Healthy Fitness Zones each year and be able to create and achieve their own goals for each Health Component.
With the equipment I have here, we will be able to do a curl up test measuring the students muscular endurance/strength, the sit and reach test measuring students' flexibility.
The batons will be apart of our track and field unit which will help the students increase their cardio-respiratory endurance through out the year and prepare them for their PACER test.
Understanding the 5 health components is important to living a life time of health and wellness. Help me help my students become more self aware in terms of their health and wellness by learning about the 5 health components of fitness through meaningful experiences using this equipment.
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