Personal Fitness

Focus: The overall focus of this activity is to provide students with a culminating board game assignment in the target area of Personal Fitness

Title: What’s Your Fitness?

Purpose: The purpose of this game board activity is to tap into student’s comprehension and application involving the personal fitness principles we have covered during our last unit. The areas I want students to focus on are; Fitness Standards, Fitness Goal Setting, Definitions /Explanations of terms given throughout the lectures for example; Hyperthermia, Heat Exhaustion, Heat Stroke, Principles of Overload. Students should also address the components of F.I.T as well.

For this assessment activity students will be creating a board game to challenge classmates and themselves through different kinds of questions. These questions should not simply be multiple choice, T/F, and explanations; I challenge the students to be as creative as possible when taping into our personal fitness knowledge.

Materials Needed: Poster board, markers, tape, glue, index cards, crayons, colored pencils, scissors, and anything else the students may request. Students may also use their notes, handouts, and any other resource to create their board game.

Assignment Description
Students will be assigned two major fitness principles or subject areas that I want them to focus on. These topics will be from the wide array of information he have covered in our unit. In order to make sure the questions will help students review for the upcoming examination I want students to use their class notes, power-point slides, handouts, and class presentation information for the majority of their questions.

After a topic area has been assigned students will formulate their questions on lined pieces of paper. Students will turn in their questions to make sure they are valid and pertain to the task at hand. Once reviewed by the teacher students will get their questions back and begin to formulate their board game.

Fitness Game Board Must Include:
Correct answers to each question, typed on a piece of paper separate from the questions.

Clear instructions and rules governing play

A clear strategy and purpose for the rules governing the game.

A colorful playing board designed by the students that incorporate fitness.

Creative game pieces to play with, (i.e. cards, unique figurines to maneuver on the board, dice)
Questions to ask yourself before you are done?

Did the game have clear instructions and rules for playing included?

Were the questions relevant to the assigned topic?

Was there a clear strategy and purpose to the game?

Did the questions on the board game challenge your personal fitness knowledge?

Would you feel more prepared for the exam after playing your game?

Administration Description
Before having students participate in this assignment it is crucial that the teacher identifies whether or not the students have a solid understanding of personal fitness and the major subject areas we have covered for this unit. In order to do this I suggest a pre-test of some sort or, group discussions, or have students give a small presentation about their subject area to make sure they understand the material.

If students need refreshing or lack an understanding of a specific part I suggest revisiting that area to ensure the students have an understanding. If students do not have the proper knowledge they cannot participate in the board game assessments which make the overall purpose of this activity invalid. Once you are sure the students have an understanding of the subject area you will able to guide students through the questions building process and on the creation of their game boards

Scoring Methods
Scoring for this assignment will be done based on a check list that the proper components for the game board where included as well as a personal reflection assignment. This assignment will be based ask students to reflect on the entire process as well as some information you gathered from other game boards. The scoring for the components of the game board will be out of 5 points. There are five major components and students will receive a point for each component.
Scoring for the written assignment will be based on a rubric focusing on Content provided, Clarity of your overall paper, Analysis of the entire process, what you learned, and Information given, did you show case areas that you learned about. Each area of the rubric will be given 1 incomplete need more thought, or compete 2 demonstrated an active role in the learning of personal fitness. After writing a reflection I also want students to provide two questions that you would like explained in further detail or you were confused about. This will help me address any areas that seem to be confusing. The reflection paper has no page limits.

Check Sheets / Rubrics
-Check Sheets for Game Board
-Rubric for Assessment