Physical+Education

**Physical Education**  1.Design and demonstrate a routine that combines complex movement patterns (e.g., traveling, rolling, balance, weight transfer) into a smooth, flowing sequence individually and with a partner or group. 2. Demonstrate the critical elements of specialized locomotor and non-locomotor skills in a variety of physical activities (e.g., fitness, track and field, martial arts).
 * Benchmark A: Demonstrate movement skills and patterns in a variety of physical activities.**

**Technology**


 * 1) Students will be using heart rate monitors during physical activity.
 * 2) Class set of 30
 * 3) Polar, Timex, Omron ($50 - $60 each)
 * 4) The heart rate monitors will record student heart rates over time.
 * 5) Computers neccessary to record data
 * 6) Compaq, HP, any desktop, laptop or handheld ($300 - $500)
 * 7) The data will be printed off for each student participating in the acivities.
 * 8) Printer will be neccessary
 * 9) Epson, HP etc... ($100 - $150)
 * 10) Each student should leave a printed paper containing data from their three stations.

**Lesson: Olympic Games **
 * 1) Students will choose three of the ten "Olympic" activities.
 * 2) The events will be broken up into strenuous and non strenuous activities for better data results for the health project.
 * 3) The teacher is responsible that a student has a least one strenuous and one non strenuous.
 * 4) Students will wear the heart rate monitors before, during and a minute after the exercise.
 * 5) Students will participate in the activity for 15 minutes while others time them.
 * 6) Students must be sure they are wearing the heart rate monitor during all three activities.
 * 7) Students are responsible that all measurements of their heart rate are recorded onto the computer and are given a copy on a print off
 * 8) The data will then be printed off for each student and students must take the data to health class.

** Resources **

Technology can benefit all contents of teaching. With today's technology physical education teachers can record and analyze physical performance data immediately. This would allow the teacher to monitor student progress in class or pace students trying to reach a set limit. "A number of software programs have been designed especially for physical education applications, too. These can be used to record and analyze physical fitness, physical activity levels, and nutrition habits, such as...Also, the PE Manager program is available to help physical educators immediately track student performance..." (Woods 2008) This is just like giving formative assessments in any other content area. I believe this technology can also teachers a visual or hard evidence that shows when a student isn't putting forth their full effort in class. Teachers could set up heart rate charts to show student progress in their workouts in class, much like the presidential fitness award for push-ups and sit-ups. In the article it shows that over 50% of the teachers surveyed felt they were proficient to use and teach how to work a heart rate monitor, but only around 30% felt they could transfer data between software programs. This gap in technology confidence was directly related to the number of years of experience. "This finding has been explained by the likelihood of younger teachers to have had more experience with technology than older teachers (Matthews & Guarino 2000)" (Woods 2008). This doesn't mean that teachers with more experience can't implement this technology, only they made need some guidance and professional development.

Woods, M. Karp, G., Hui, M., Perlman D. (Spring 2008). Physical Educators' Technology Competencies and Usage. __The Physical Education__ v. 65 no2 p. 82-99. Retrieved on June 1, 2010 from []

Tried and True or New and Innovative
This would be an example of a new and innovative way of using technology in the classroom. The use of heart monitors is not new to the fitness world, but using it as a measurement of current up to date data of student performance make this a new and innovative technology. This lesson could be done with less accuracy by having students take their own pulse the old fashion way, but with today's student, they expect and need immediate digital feedback. We don't have to stay in the Stone Age if we don't want to. This lesson brings a new flare to gym class and could make targeting student exercises more precise and immediate.