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Fitness and Exercise

Learning Outcomes:

Grade 3:

·        Select and perform locomotor and non-locomotor skills involved in a variety of individual and dual activities

Grade 4:

·        Demonstrate the activity-specific motor skills involved in individual, dual, and group activities

Objectives: The student will be able to:

·        Stretch and warm-up for future activities

·        do a variety of Crunch and V-Sit abdominal exercises

Materials:

Mats for each pair of students

Gym Strip

Ball

Handout

Pencil

Lesson Implementation:

Hook:

How do professional athletes train to become good at a sport and maintain their abilities of that sport?  Have a short discussion about individual exercise and focus on stretching and the abdominal.

Procedure:

·        Have all the materials ready for preparation

·        Tell students that they have to bring their gym strip and a pencil

·        Have a short discussion about stretching and abdominal exercises; ensure to discuss about sets and repetitions

·        Do some stretches with the children

o       Neck area

o       Upper Body

o       Lower body

·        Students then run around the perimeter of the gym

·        Demonstrate crunches and v-sit abdominal exercises; show handout indicating that each student records how many repetitions they have done in each set.  Ask if they have any questions.  Make sure that the students do each exercise slowly.

·        Put class in to pairs and the students do the abdominal activity.  Observe the activity and make sure that the students are doing the exercises safely and correctly

·        Short wrap-up discussion of the activity

Conclusion:

·        If there is time, choose one group to demonstrate the abdominal exercises to the rest of the class and show their data sheet.  Have a short discussion to wrap-up the activity

Extension:

·        Play the game Exercise Tag

o       The object of the game is to play tag and the student that gets tagged, must do at least ten repetitions of a particular abdominal exercise (the teacher tells the student which particular exercise it will be

Assessment:

·        Students doing the abdominal activities

·        The data on their hand-outs

Name:                                         Date:

V-Sits and Crunches:

An Abdominal Workout

You are training to become a professional athlete and must learn how to do abdominal exercises.  Your professional trainer has designed a program for your partner and yourself to learn the stomach exercises V-Sits and Crunches.  Record on the chart below how many exercises you have done for each set.  Make sure to write your data clear and legibly.  Hand your sheet back to your trainer at the end of the workout.  Have fun and exercise safely.