Overview

Overview

📕Section 1: Unit Introduction

Welcome to Your Fitness Journey

This unit is all about developing your own fitness goals (including the proper biomechanics of shooting a basketball) and learning how to reach them using smart strategies and digital tools. You'll be in control of your progress, work with teammates, and explore how technology can make personal fitness more effective and fun.

Throughout this unit, you will:

• Set and track SMART fitness goals

• Learn how to properly shoot a basketball

• Learn to use apps and devices to monitor your workouts

• Reflect on your performance using real data

• Collaborate with classmates to improve and support one another

💡 Section 2: Big Ideas

What We Believe About Fitness

• Everyone can improve their fitness with consistent effort and feedback.

• SMART goals keep us focused, motivated, and accountable.

• Technology makes it easier to track, reflect, and adjust our fitness efforts.

• Working with others helps us stay committed and energized.

❓ Section 3: Essential Questions

What Will We Be Asking Ourselves?

• How can I use data and feedback to improve my fitness & jumpshot?

• What role does goal-setting play in building healthy habits?

• How can I use technology to track and adjust my personal fitness plan?

• 🎓 Section 4: Learning Objectives (Aligned to Bloom’s Taxonomy)

• What Will I Learn to Do?

• Bloom’s Level - Remember

• Student Learning Objectives 

- Identify components of a SMART fitness goal. 

- Identify the proper mechanics of shooting a basketball

• Bloom’s Level - Understand

• Student Learning Objectives 

- Describe how effort, intensity, and rest affect fitness improvement. 

- Describe the proper mechanics of shooting a basketball.

• Bloom’s Level - Apply

• Student Learning Objectives 

- Use a fitness tracking app to log and monitor physical activity. 

- Demonstrate correct shooting form in live practice and digital reflection.

• Bloom’s Level - Analyze

• Student Learning Objective - Interpret personal fitness data and identify trends. 

• Bloom’s Level - Evaluate

• Student Learning Objective - Reflect on progress and modify your fitness strategy & jumpshot accordingly.

• Bloom’s Level - Create

• Student Learning Objective 

- Design a personalized, goal-driven fitness plan using tech tools.

- Create a digital product showcasign responsible use of fitness technology.

🧠 Section 5: Instructional Framework

Why This Unit Works: Design Principles

🎯 Backward Design

We start with clear goals, build assessments from them, and design lessons to meet those goals.

🔢 Bloom’s Taxonomy

Lessons build skills from remembering and understanding to creating and evaluating.

👥 Cooperative Learning

Peer feedback, shared plans, and team activities build accountability and motivation.

💻 Educational Technology

Tools like Strava, Google Sheets, Jamboard, and Screencastify help you track progress, reflect, and share your learning.

• 📎 Section 6: Unit-at-a-Glance Schedule

• What We’ll Do Each Day

• Lesson 1

• SMART Goals + Baseline

• Goal-setting + Pre-fitness data

• Learn the 4 steps to shooting a basketball

• Lesson 2

• FITT Circuit

• Learn + move through training principles

• Lesson 3

• Workout Tracking

• Tech-supported activity tracking

• Lesson 4

• Reflect & Adjust

• Midpoint reflection + plan revision

• Lesson 5

• Present Your Plan

• Showcase goals, demo movement