Physical Activity and Your Life
Physical Activity and Your Life
Learning Targets:
In this unit, you will explain the connection between physical activity and good health.
In this unit, you will assess your personal physical activity level and track progress toward your physical activity goal(s).
Student Success Criteria:
In this unit, you will explain the connection between physical activity and good health.
Define what good health means and what it looks like
Describe at least 3 benefits physical activity provides to good health
Identify 3 kinds of physical activity that can be completed to contribute to good health
In this unit, you will assess your personal physical activity level and track progress toward your physical activity goal(s).
Create at least one physical activity goal
Perform a preferred physical activity assessment related to your physical activity goal(s)
Create a plan to track progress toward your physical activity goal(s)
Priority Standards
1.9N Explain how good health is influenced by healthy eating and being physically active.
6.2N Monitor personal progress toward a physical activity goal.
7.4N Demonstrate the ability to assess personal physical activity levels.
Supporting Standards
1.10N Describe how physical activity, rest, and sleep are related
1.11N Identify physical, academic, mental, and social benefits of regular physical activity
3.1N Locate age-appropriate guidelines for eating and physical activity
5.2N Use a decision-making process to determine activities that increase physical fitness.
5.3N Compare personal eating and physical activity patterns with current age-appropriate guidelines.
Vocabulary
Maximum heart rate
Good health
Physical activity
Moderate activity
Vigorous activity
Essential Questions
How does physical activity promote good health?
Why should you create and track physical activity goals?
How can you identify and improve your activity level?
Learning Progressions and Quick Checks
LP: DESCRIBE what good health looks like
LP: EXPLAIN the connection between healthy eating and being physically active with good health
QC: Students will participate in a whole-group discussion about the guidelines around good health, and the factors included in being healthy.
LP: DESCRIBE the purpose of a physical activity goal
QC: Students will complete the Physical Activity IQ Quiz and review the answers together as a class to discuss.
LP: DEFINE physical activity levels
LP: CONTRAST the physical activity levels
LP: GIVE EXAMPLES of how to find physical activity level
LP: EVALUATE your personal physical activity level
QC: Students will then take the heart and respiration rate of a partner and assess their physical activity levels. The teacher will then give students 2 sticky notes to put their heart and respiration rates on. On a number line, students will place their sticky notes to compare the class as a whole and discuss the variety of physical activity levels.
LP: DESCRIBE how to monitor personal progress toward a physical activity goal
LP: FORMULATE a physical activity goal and a plan to track personal progress toward the goal
QC: After reviewing and modeling the process of creating a SMART goal, students will be given a scenario or “case study.” A 15-year-old female wants to improve her physical activity level because she wants to participate in her high school soccer team this year. Her current heart rate is 95 beats per minute, and her respiration rate is currently 16 beats per minute. Write a SMART goal for her to improve her physical activity level for her desire to participate on the soccer team.
Short Constructed Response
In a paragraph, define what good physical health is and looks like. Describe how physical activity connects to and supports physical health and provide at least 3 examples of physical activity that can benefit good health.