Physical Fitness

This webquest should work to inroduce the FITT principle, which is specifically addressed in our state core content.  The 5 Components of Health and understanding Target Heart Rate are also a few of the Big Ideas we spend extra time on.  And finally planning their own fitness routine for a week will give them real-life application and hopefully encourage them to be lifelong learners when it comes to their physical activity levels.  Outside connections that could be added with this webquest would be involving their parents and family.  The webquest itself is a great outreach tool if you can get the web address to them.  And although this webquest doesn't specifically address nutrition, the sites during the quest all talk about eating right.  As teachers, the discussion of nutrition would be integrated with fitness on a regular basis.  I've found with my students that separating them for assignments first, then bringing them together helps the kids process the importance of both, and allows them to make their own inferences as we go activating prior knowledge and encouraging them into predicting.