S+Knox,+Andrew

Office: Rm 206 Office Phone:555-9827 Office Hours:** **An hour before class and an hour after class.** ** E-mail: ** **andrew.l.knox@maine.edu**
 * Teacher:Mr. Andy Knox

=Summary of Unit= Throughout this unit students will be learning and experiences how the many different things in life can affect your health and fitness levels. Learning that the brain is a major component in overall health is one of the first steps in understanding this concept. Many may think that health and fitness is only achieved by going to a gym or going on “fad” diets, but this unit will go beyond the stereotypical idea of lifting and running are the only way to stay fit and healthy. Along the way students will come to a realization that the body takes time to make changes that are really noticeable. The students will be going through fitness assessments, participating in new/different exercise routines, makes sense of some of those “fad” diets out there, and be able to grasp the brains involvement in all of this. They will be able to take away life-long guidelines and concepts that will help improve their health and also their lives by making even small changes.

=Establish Goals= Maine Learning Results: Health Education & Physical Education H. Physical Fitness Activities and Knowledge H4 - Physical Activity Benefits, Grade 9-Diploma - Students explain the interrelationship of physiological responses and physical, mental/intellectual, emotional, and social benefits related to regular participation in physical activity.

= = =Students will understand that= •The brain is a major player in physical fitness. •There is more to physical fitness then muscle gain and cardio. •Nothing with physical fitness happens overnight, in a healthy way.

= = =Essential Questions= •How the brain plays a part in overall fitness. •How different aspects of life will be affected due to increased fitness. •Why the body takes time to change.

= = =Students will know= •**Sequence & Timelines** - Importance of regular exercise, Establish regular eating habits, Adaptations to the body due to changes in life, Brains time-line on fitness •**Key Factual Information** -Health/fitness is a life-long commitment, Genetics is a major factor, Longevity and quality of life is improved •**Vocabulary** - Hormones, Key glands, Atkins diet, South Beach diet, Anorexia nervosa, Bulimia nervosa, Strength training, Cardio

= = =Students will be able to= •Describe the brains role in physical activities. •Make sense of the "Fad" diets and judge their effectiveness. •Test the fact that physical fitness takes time. •Contrast different ways to stay healthy. •Be open to other ways to be physically fit. •Self assess their own brain and physical fitness

**Performance Task Overview** You are a top trainer/nutritionist for one of the top gyms in Hollywood. You boss just came to you to tell you that he/she will be giving you a new client, and this client is a huge star! You will choose to either take Stunning Sally or Chiseled Chad. Sally is going to be starring in the new sexy chick flick that takes place on a tropical island, so yes, she will be a bathing suite. Sally though is 10 lbs. under weight and the director would like her to not look like a bag of bones! Chad on the other hand just got an action role where he will be baring his famous chest, but he is out of shape, has a poor diet, and is 20 lbs. over weight! Your task is to identify their problems then come up with an appropriate diet and fitness plan to whip one of these two into shape and have them ready for their new role. You will pull this together in a multimedia presentation that will later be used to help advertise for the gym and to tell your boss to keep sending the high profile clients your way!

=Expectations (positive)=
 * Plagiarism** //-// Plagiarism is a against the law, against school policy, and is stealing. There will be material that you will want to use in your project, and that is perfectly OK. You will be expected to cite all of your references and cite them properly. If you have any questions about citation, please come and see me or another faculty member. We will gladly help you with this.
 * Attendance** - I agree with the school policy when it comes to attendance. You should be coming to school every weekday unless you have it excused. If/when you are gone and it is an excused absence please make sure to come and talk to me and show me your excused slip so I know that everything is alright. I also know that none of you will ever be tardy since you will be running to get to my class because you all enjoy it so much, but in case you are tardy make sure you have a hall pass. 80 minutes just is not enough time with you, so I would like to start class ASAP. I know things happen in the halls, but please do not make being tardy a regular thing. If this becomes a problem we will discuss some way to make up that precious time that you lost!
 * Homework** - Homework will be part of this class, but we will also have class time to start most of it and allow time to ask questions so you may complete for next class. I hope that you will find the homework easy to complete and the time frame is appropriate. I will be up for discussion on due dates for some homework, but most will not change. Completion is expected for every assignment along with how neat it is, correctness, and timeliness. If you are aware that your homework will be late, please contact me so we can discuss the possibility of an extension. Although if you happen to hand something in late, which I know will not happen, I will take off 5% for every day it is late. This is not every class period you see me, but individual days. This policy is good for up to five days, then it will go in the books as a 0.
 * Participation** - As I mentioned earlier I only get you for 80 minutes every other day and personally that is not fair. I feel that you will learn so much from this class and I want you to enjoy full experience. This class will have you participating in multiple activities that you may find difficult, but almost everything new you do is difficult. I ask that you give it your best attempt and you come to class ready to try something new and give it as much as you can that day.
 * Electronic Devices** - There will be multiple times throughout this class to use electronic devices. This means that if we are not directly working with one or I have given permission to use one I do not want to see or hear them. This includes cell phones, iPods, MP3 players, laptop computers, PSP's, or other hand held gaming device. (If any others come up we will discuss proper uses of devices)

=Benchmarks= Based on the lesson at hand the students will be accumulating points based on their participation. This will include the completion of wiki and blog posting, the participation of fitness classes, and the completion of pre/post fitness testing. Regular participation in classroom discussion is also expected, but I have a feeling that I will have to tell all of you to be quiet since you all will be so knowledgeable that you will want to share everything you have gained from my class. This means that points will be allocated for classroom participation.
 * Participation (50)**

The students will be creating an I Movie as one of the benchmarks for this unit. This iMovie will include self esteem, self image, and brain functions on health. They will need to prepare a script to hand in to show the content they will be covering during the movie. This should give the students a chance to be creative and to demonstrate the knowledge they have gained in their own way.
 * iMovie (50)**

Students will be putting together an E-Book on the "Fad" diets and eating disorders. With the amount of information that they will be presented to them I will ask them to put together an e-book that will supply someone who has never heard of any of them a snap shot of them. It should not be too long and they should be able to provide correct and appropriate knowledge in a form that might catch someones eye.
 * E-Book (50)**

Students will be creating a wiki page that they will be using for this lesson along with other lessons. This will be created in the first lesson of the unit and for that one the main use will be to make comments on their pre fitness testing. They will also be making comments on misconceptions they may have had on physical fitness and reading others comments to get insight on what their peers may have thought about it. They will also be adding to the wiki in different lessons through out the unit.
 * Wiki (50)**

Students will create a Comic Life project to compare and contrast three lifestyles and why/why not they are healthy. They will be having a debate with the three different lifestyles, but as a final product they will need to be able to provide reasons for why they are all healthy. The comic life will give you the opportunity to be creative, but also convey the knowledge you have acquired.
 * Comic Life (50)**

Students will be creating and maintaining a blog in this unit. They will be making posts on the new/different ways to be/stay physically fit. Many of the activities that they will be exposed to will be new/foreign to many of them and I will be asking the students to make blog post on what they thought of it, how it could work into their own fitness plan, what they disliked about it, and their overall reaction to it.
 * Blog (50)**

Students will be creating a poster through a software program Glogster. Once the students have had the opportunity to find out about their own physical fitness status, and how the brain works with health and physical fitness they will be given the opportunity to creatively show their knowledge on what they learned. They will be adding information on the poster that will be coming from the past two lessons. This will be a great chance for the students to look at themselves and create something that will really represent themselves.
 * Glogster (50)**

At the end of the unit the students will be completing a webquest. Once completing the webquest the students will then be putting together an oral presentation that will include an iMovie to compliment the presentation. This will bring together information from all the previous lessons. This project should show that the students has acquried a good understanding of all the content that was provided to them.
 * Preformance Task (100)**

=Grading Scale= **A** (93 -100), **A-** (90 - 92), **B+** (87 - 89), **B** (83 - 86), **B-** (80 - 82), **C+**(77 - 79), **C** (73-76),
 * C-** (70 - 72), **D+**(67 - 69), **D** (63 - 66), **D-** (60 - 62), **F** (0 - 59)