Health

Health

Standards **Benchmark B:** Understand the principles, components and practices of health-related physical fitness. 1. Evaluate results of fitness test and develop a comprehensive program to improve fitness. 2. Apply health-related fitness activities designed to improve or maintain body composition, cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, muscular endurance, muscular strength both inside and outside of school. 3. Apply principles of training (e.g., specificity, overload, progression) to maintain or improve health-related fitness. 4. Apply FITT principle when participating in a physical activity.
 * Grade Seven:** Components, Principles and Practices

**Technology**
 * 1) Students will be utalizing **computers** throughout the project to complete all parts.
 * 2) Students will use the **Internet** to locate and organize data using the website: [|www.caloriesburnedperhour.com]
 * 3) Students will search the web using **google** to locate the caloric value of two of their favorite fast food items, one food, one drink.
 * 4) Students will take that data and graph group data sets using the free graph maker website: []
 * 5) Students will **e-mail** their graphs to their instructor using the same webpage.

**Lesson: Exploring our Caloric Input/Output**
 * 1) Students will have previously been studying Body Mass Index, heart rate and caloric intake/output.
 * 2) In health class during Olympic Day students will use their heart rate data, recorded from gym class to calculate total calories burned if they were to repeat that exercise for an hour.
 * 3) They will navigate themselves through the website [|www.caloriesburnedperhour.com]
 * 4) While a group of students are navigating the website to calculate calories burned, another group of students will be selecting one food item and one drink item from a popular fast food chain.
 * 5) Students must locate the calorie consumption of their two items.
 * 6) The data of total caloric consumption by the class will be plotted against the calories burned.
 * 7) The following website can be used to create graphs of all sorts: []
 * 8) The class can then decide whether their exercises (as a whole) if completed for an hour would burn the calories from the two fast food items (consumed by each person in the classroom).
 * 9) The data will be compiled all day so students can look for trends in calories burned verse the exercise.
 * 10) What exercises offer the most calories burned? What causes them to have the most calories burned?
 * 11) Why is it important for Olympic athletes to be aware of what they are eating?
 * 12) Besides calories, what other concerns should people have about the food they eat?

**Resources**

Using the Internet is second nature to students and is for almost all teachers. With Progress Book (online grade book) and e-mail teachers are almost all guarenteed to be using the Internet on a daily basis. There's no doubt that the Internet has much to offer students and teachers in the classroom. Some applications are online books, many of my students this year left their math book at school and used the online version. The Internet also allows a person to access files from almost any computer in the world. There is no doubt that the Internet is one of the most used resources inside and outside the classroom. "According to a 2002 study by QED, 96 percent of K-12 teachers surveyed said they use the Internet as a teaching resource, with 60 percent of elementary-school and 65, percent of middleschool teachers requireing students to use it for at least some assignments." I'm sure if a newer study was completed it would show even higher percentages.

The internet in the classroom: //Instructor// v113 no 5 (January 2004) Retrieved June 1st, 2010 from: []

**Tried and True or New and Innovative**

This lesson would be categorized as Tried and True. Almost all students by the 7th grade are familar with the Internet and can easily navigate it to find the information they are looking for. I chose to use the web based graph creator because of student familiarity with the Internet. Rather than choosing a more technical program such as Excel this program is kid friendly and has the ability to easily and quickly e-mail the assignment. The biggest argument to show this is tried and true is just the raw number of student on the Internet daily. If you ask my classes how many use the Internet during they day 90% of them would say they have. This is not a fab, but a trend of how society is moving. We are a technology centered society and education better start moving that direction as well.