LIFETIME FITNESS UNIT

What is it and Why?

Lifetime Fitness is an 8th grade project based, collaborative, common core and state standard based unit where small groups will design a workout program for a client that has very specific goals.  The idea is to equip students with the tools to design their own program based on their own specific fitness and/or athletic needs.  If students can learn to identify goals based on their individual needs, then it will be much easier to design a meaningful and sustainable fitness program.  This unit is called "Liftetime Fitness" because it provides the foundational tools to build a lifetime fitness program. 

What You Need to Know

This is a group project where your group will be given a certain type of client that will have different goals and needs.  Your group will have pre-assigned equipment that you will have access to in order to design a workout circuit that will specifically address the clients goals.  You will set up this circuit for the class, present it and then the class will perform the workout.  Afterwards, the class will peer assess the experience and you will have a self reflection assignment.

The project has two outcomes:
1.  A comprehensive Google Slide Presentation 
2.  A class presentation

All of the project information will be in a Team Folder your group will create.     

All Star Work 2019

Google Slide Presentation #1
​Team Folder and 30/30 on Presentation- this is a good example of all the information you need in your team folders

Unit Learning Materials & Resources

Below are links to the learning materials you will need to refer to throughout the unit- homework assessments, move names, rubrics, reflection assignment, etc.

PROJECT MATERIALS     Google Slide Presentation Information
     Class Presentation Information 
     Project Resources

California State PE Standards Adressed

3.2  Refine individual personal physical fitness goals for each of the five components of health- related physical fitness, using research-based criteria.
3.3  Plan and implement a two-week personal physical fitness plan in collaboration with the teacher.
3.4  Participate in moderate to vigorous physical activity a minimum of four days each week.
3.5  Assess periodically the attainment of, or progress toward, personal physical fitness goals and make necessary adjustments to a personal physical fitness program.
3.6  Participate safely in moderate to vigorous physical activity when conditions are atypical (weather, travel, injury). 
4.1  Develop a two-week personal physical fitness plan specifying the proper warm-up and cool-down activities and the principles of exercise for each of the five components of health- related physical fitness.
4.2  Identify appropriate physical activities that can be performed if one’s physical fitness program is disrupted by inclement weather, travel from home or school, or a minor injury.
4.3  Identify ways of increasing physical activity in routine daily activities.
4.4  Identify and apply basic principles in weight/resistance training and safety practices.
4.5  Explain the effects of nutrition and participation in physical activity on weight control, self-concept, and physical performance.
4.6  Explain the different types of conditioning for different physical activities. 

Student Videos- 2016

These videos show student groups presenting to the class as well as clips from their circuits.  This may help give you some guidance on what the presentations should/should not look like.  

Download this awesome video notes app  www.videonot.es so that you can take notes about specifically about the video while watching the videos in class.