Design your own fitness challenge: Building a healthier school community through technology & teamwork

Design your own fitness challenge: Building a healthier school community through technology & teamwork

content:

• course: high school physical education class
• duration: 1-2 weeks

• technology focus: interactive fitness design using genially and google sheets

summary

Students will design, test, and present a one week fitness challenge, aimed at improving physical activity and wellness in their school community. Through teamwork, research and technology, they will develop leader ship and healthy literacy skills.

main points

• creativity
• teamwork
• health
• technology

Standards connection

ISTE Standard 1.4 innovation designer

Mississippi PE standard (H.2.1) Apply principles of training (frequency, intensity, time, and type) to improve personal fitness.

• students use technology within a design process to identify and solve real world problems
• Students persevere, when working on open, ended challenges

objectives

1. Apply fitness principles by creating an original challenge
2. Use technology to track, analyze, and present results
3. Develop teamwork, creativity, and leader ship skills

Tools for success

Teacher tools: smartboard,google classroom, canva for instuctions

PE equipment: cones, ropes, stopwatch, balls

Student tools:

• genially: for final presentation
• gogle sheets: track fitness data
• canva: design promotional material

project overview

anchor question: " how can we motivate our peers to be more active through a fun fitness challenge?

prject task: students work in teams to:

1. Define a one-week fitness challenge that focuses on endurance, strength, and flexibility
2. Test their challenge and collect results
3. create a genially presentation to share findings and promote their idea

Technology use: Reaserch, track, results, and present design digitally

how you'll be graded

criteria: activity and innovation technology integration collaboration research inquiry reflection presentation

description: Originality of fitness challenge use genially, sheets group participation supporting data in application quality of video organization and clarity

points: 20 20 15 15 10 20 TOTAL: 100 points

reflect, share, and move forward

Student reflection promts:

• What did you learn about fitness and teamwork?
• How do technology help you be more creative?
• What would you do differently next time?

wrap up: Students upload videos and showcase their genially presentations during class. Winning challenge becomes the official school fitness week.

"Stronger together, one challenge at a time"