Lesson 5.3: Preparing for Physical Activity

Overview

This lesson focuses on the importance of including physical activity in your daily life. Physical activity should include a warm-up, the activity itself, and a cool-down. The important aspects of participating safely in various physical activities and identifying the benefits of participating in lifelong fitness activities will be explained.

Learning Targets

  • Describe the three parts of a workout.
  • Identify three benefits of being physically active throughout your life.
  • Explain two things a team sport can do for you besides assist you in keeping healthy.
  • List two things an individual sport can do for you.
  • Discuss the four things you should think about when dressing to be active.
  • Distinguish three ways to prevent an injury that you think are important.

Preparation

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 5.3 PowerPoint slides, or make copies of the Lesson 5.3 Note-Taking Guide.

For the Lesson Focus: Copy the Lesson 5.3 Analyzing Influences Skill-Building Challenge Worksheet.

Warm-Up Activity

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

  • Journal Question: What is your favorite physical activity and why? Is your favorite activity something you can do throughout your life? Is it something you can do anywhere, or do you need special equipment for it?
    • 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 5.3 Vocabulary Review Worksheet.
  • Quiz: Have students complete the Lesson 5.3 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 5.3 PowerPoint slides to review the chapter content.

Option: Have students use the Lesson 5.3 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: Analyzing Influences

  1. Provide each student with a copy of the Lesson 5.3 Analyzing Influences Skill-Building Challenge Worksheet.
  2. Review the directions for the worksheet with students.
  3. Provide students with one example of an influence (this example could be from your life or a hypothetical example) to demonstrate the way in which students will complete their worksheets.
  4. When students are finished, make two columns on the whiteboard, one titled POSITIVE and one titled NEGATIVE. Provide each student with a sticky note, and ask them to write down one influence (positive or negative) and stick it on the whiteboard in the appropriate column.
  5. Quickly review the sticky notes as students place them on the board, and review ones that are duplicated or that stand out with the class. Discuss what makes the influence positive or negative and how it could affect students.

Challenge Activity

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

Make a list of the different places you could go in your community to be physically active. Include places such as local parks, fields, and facilities. Next to each item, identify the groups of people who are most likely to benefit from that facility (for example, school kids, parents, older adults, professionals, and athletes). When identifying groups, think about who has access and what the facility offers.

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…

  • Describe the three parts of a workout?

    A warm-up should include large-muscle movements that get your whole body moving to slowly increase your heart rate so you will be ready for your activity. The workout focus is determined by what it is you are trying to improve or what you are training for. The cool-down is used to slow your body down and give it time to adjust when ending an activity.

  • Identify three benefits of being physically active throughout your life?

    Staying active later in life helps to maintain the ability to live alone and reduces the risk of falling and fracturing bones, can help reduce blood pressure, and improves stamina and muscle strength.

  • Explain two things a team sport can do for you besides assist you in keeping healthy?

    Being involved with a team sport can help to keep you healthy and also teach you about working with others, being a good sport during competition, managing time (because you have to consider school and practice commitments), and persisting when things may not be going the way you want them to.

  • List two things an individual sport can do for you?

    Individual sports can promote resilience, self-motivation, and accomplishment.

  • Discuss the four things you should think about when dressing to be active?

    Wearing comfortable clothes so you can move freely, dressing in layers if you are exercising outside so you can take layers off if you get too warm and put them back on if you get cold, wearing proper socks to prevent blisters, and wearing proper shoes for the activity you are participating in.

  • Distinguish three ways to prevent an injury that you think are important?
    • Rest and take at least one day off from exercise each week.
    • Take a day off between doing muscular strength or muscular endurance activities.
    • Make sure you are using proper technique when exercising.
    • Vary your activity so you aren’t using the same muscle groups each day.
    • Don’t play through pain because that often makes a minor injury into a major injury.
    • Warm up and cool down properly.
    • Wear the right protective gear to keep from being injured.
    • Stay hydrated by drinking water regularly before, during, and after your physical activity. Being hydrated will help regulate your body temperature and blood pressure so you don’t get overheated, which can interfere with your performance and recovery.

Assessment

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

  • Quiz: Have students take the Lesson 5.3 Quiz.
  • Vocabulary Review: Collect the Lesson 5.3 Vocabulary Review Worksheets, and evaluate them for accuracy.
  • Note-Taking Guide: Collect the completed Lesson 5.3 Note-Taking Guide, and spot check one or more items for completion and accuracy.
  • Skill-Building Worksheet: Have students submit the Lesson 5.3 Analyzing Influences Skill-Building Challenge Worksheets, and use the Analyzing Influences 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

Talk to a family member who is not in school, and ask them what types of physical activity they either currently do or would like to do if they could. Ask them what kinds of physical activity they would like to have access to in the community, and do some research to determine whether any options exist for them.