Lesson Plan Title: Fitness Journal
Performance Objective: Participate in physical activities of your choice in order to attain fitness goals and record your activity type, duration, and heart rate in a Google Sheets document for 4 weeks.
Resources or Materials Needed: Students need their physical education uniforms, athletic shoes, and computers. The students need computers and internet access. The teacher needs the overhead projector, laptop, and internet access.
Time: 1 hour
Step 1: Pre-Instructional Activities: Locker room, squad lines, warm up lines, Pe Shake App
Step 2: Content Presentation: Direct Instruction: Introduce students to a fitness journal. Explain to the students that they will be tracking their physical activity progress for the next 4 weeks. The students should track the activity, duration of the activity, heart rate during the activity, and anything else they think would be beneficial. The students will complete this assignment via Google Sheets.
Step 3: Learner Participation: The students will create their fitness journal on Google Sheets. The students are encouraged to be creative and to make their project aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
Step 4: Assessment: The students will be summatively assessed on their fitness journal at the end of the 4 week period.
Step 5: Follow-Through Activities: Students are encouraged to participate in activity outside of school and record it in their journal on a daily basis.
Lesson Plan Summary: The students will line up in the hall and wait for directions to enter the locker room. Once the students are in the locker room, they get dressed into their physical education uniforms and athletic shoes. After getting dressed, the students line up in the locker room and wait for directions to enter the gym. Once the students enter the gym, they sit in squad lines while the teacher takes attendance. After attendance, the teacher instructs the students to go to their warm up lines and the teacher picks a captain. The captain for the day picks a game on the Pe Shape App and it explains it to the class. After warm ups are complete, the captain directs the class to sit near the white board. The teacher will guide the students through the process of creating a fitness journal. The teacher will show examples and then give the students time to design their journals. Once the class is finished, the captain will lead the class through the cool down exercises. After the cool down, the students will be instructed to go into the locker room and get dressed in their school uniform. Once finished, they wait for the teacher to dismiss them.