Lesson 5.1: Physical Activity

Overview

This lesson focuses on understanding the importance of physical activity on lifestyle and identifying the benefits of physical activity, exercise, and physical fitness.

Learning Targets

  • Explain physical activity, exercise, and physical fitness.
  • Summarize the benefits of physical activity.
  • Identify three activities you could do at home when taking an activity break.
  • Design a schedule you could use daily to get your 60 minutes of exercise completed.
  • Describe the difference between health-related and skill-related fitness.

Preparation

Chapter Opener: Use the How Physically Active Am I? self-assessment to introduce the chapter before moving on to Lesson 5.1, or assign the self-assessment as a homework task before starting this lesson.

For the Warm-Up Activity: Write the journal question on the board, or identify (and copy as needed) the worksheets you plan to use:

For the Content Focus: Open the Lesson 5.1 PowerPoint slides, or make copies of the Lesson 5.1 Note-Taking Guide.

For the Lesson Focus: Copy the Promoting Good Health Skill-Building Challenge Worksheet.

Warm-Up Activity

Select a warm-up activity to help get your class focused and on task.

  • Self-Assessment: Have students complete the How Physically Active Am I? self-assessment.
  • Journal Question: Think about the amount of physical activity you get in a typical week. List the activities you do in a week, and how often you do them. Do you think you do enough physical activity each week? Please explain why you think you do enough or why you think you don’t do enough physical activity.
    • Option: Write or project the question, and have students respond in their journals as they enter class.
    • Option: Have students discuss the question with a partner or in a small group.
  • Vocabulary Review: Have students work individually, in partners, or in small groups to complete the Lesson 5.1 Vocabulary Review Worksheet.
  • Quiz: Have students complete the Lesson 5.1 Quiz to assess their prior knowledge.
    • Option: Collect the quizzes, and use them alongside posttests to demonstrate student learning.
    • Option: Have students share their answers with a partner and then go over the answers together as a class.

Lesson Content

Review the content from the textbook lesson.

Option: Use the Lesson 5.1 PowerPoint slides to review the chapter content.

Option: Have students use the Lesson 5.1 Note-Taking Guide to review chapter content. Ask students to work alone, in pairs, or in small groups. Review the questions as a class if time permits.

Lesson Focus: Promoting Good Health

  1. Give each student a copy of the Lesson 5.1 Promoting Good Health Skill-Building Challenge Worksheet
  2. Have students work individually or with a partner to complete the worksheet.
  3. Once completed, ask students to work with their partner to create a presentation advocating for what they want to see changed in their school. Students are asked to write a letter to school administrators, but they could write a speech, prepare a PowerPoint presentation, or make an informational flyer instead.
  4. Ask students to share their advocacy presentations with the class or the intended audience (teachers, principal, parents, etc.), and provide feedback by answering the questions on their worksheet.

Challenge Activity

Have students who need an additional challenge work on the following critical-thinking task.

Talk to an adult, a family member if possible, and ask them about any chronic diseases they may have or someone else in your family may have. Based on the information in this lesson, you learned that being physically active can help prevent many chronic diseases. Based on the chronic disease(s) the adult you spoke to may have or know about, does this information influence you to be more physically active daily? Why or why not?

Reflection and Summary

Review the critical content from today’s lesson. Review the learning targets, and ask students to answer each question posed.

Can you…

  • Explain physical activity, exercise, and physical fitness?

    Physical activity is movement using the large muscles of the body. Exercise is planned, structured, and repetitive physical activity for the purpose of improving or maintaining one or more components of fitness. Physical fitness refers to your body systems being able to work together efficiently to allow you to be healthy and able to perform all the daily activities you need to.

  • Summarize the benefits of physical activity?

    Participating in physical activity on a regular basis produces multiple physical, mental, and social health benefits.

  • Identify three activities you could do at home when taking an activity break?

    Do wall sits, planks, squats, push-ups, or crunches, or walk or ride a bike.
    Design a schedule you could use daily to get your 60 minutes of exercise completed.
    Set an alarm when you are doing your homework, and every hour take a 10-minute break and do some type of physical activity.

  • Describe the difference between health-related and skill-related fitness?

    The term health-related fitness refers to fitness activities you need to do regularly to stay healthy. Skill-related fitness includes fitness activities you use to help you perform well in sports and other activities that require specific skills.

Assessment

Complete one or more of the following assessment tasks for this lesson.

  • Quiz: Have students take the Lesson 5.1 Quiz.
  • Vocabulary Review: Collect the Lesson 5.1 Vocabulary Review Worksheets, and evaluate them for accuracy.
  • Note-Taking Guide: Collect the completed Lesson 5.1 Note-Taking Guides, and spot check one or more items for completion and accuracy.
  • Skill-Building Worksheet: Have students submit the Lesson 5.1 Promoting Good Health Skill-Building Challenge Worksheets, and use the Advocacy Holistic Rubric to evaluate their skill development.
  • Journal Question: Ask students to respond to the journal question again, adding information they learned from today’s class. Require a one-paragraph response that uses proper grammar.

Take It Home

Take note of how inactive you and your family are each evening for three nights or during a weekend. Talk to your family about being active more, and see whether there might be some activities you would be willing to do together. If you can’t get your whole family to participate, find out who will, and get active!

Option: Assign the How Physically Active Am I? self-assessment as a homework task if it was not used at the start of this lesson.