Authentic Learning: Infusion Level

(K-4 Lesson)

Physical Activity Tracker

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Grade Level

3

Classroom Configuration:

• One to one, using classroom computers or mobile laptops as rotating stations
• iPod Touches/Handheld devices – one to one

Arizona State Content Standards

• Health Education
  • Strand 1: Comprehension of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
    • Concept 3: Personal Health
      • PO 3 Describe how personal activity impacts health
• Writing
  • Strand 3 Writing Applications
    • Concept 3: Functional:
      • PO 1 Write a variety of functional text.
• Math
  • Strand 2: Data Analysis, Probability, and Discrete Mathematics
    • Concept 1: Data Analysis (Statistics)
      • PO 1. Collect, record, organize, and display data using frequency tables, single bar graphs, or single line graphs.
      • PO 2. Formulate and answer questions by interpreting and analyzing displays of data, including frequency tables, single bar graphs, or single line graphs.

Arizona Educational Technology Standards (2009)

• Strand 1: Creativity and Innovation
  • Concept 4: Original Works
    • PO 1: Use digital tools to create original works.
• Strand 4: Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Decision Making
  • Concept 2: Exploring Solutions
    • PO 2. Generate alternative solutions using collected resources and data.
• Strand 6: Technology Operations and Concepts
  • Concept 1: Understanding
    • PO 3. Choose technology applications appropriate for the audience and task.

Objectives

• The student will generate ways to increase physical activity by researching and recording physical activity.
• The student will identify ways to include physical activity in daily life.
• The student will utilize iPod touches to model digital etiquette by creating accounts with buddies.
• The student will use a handheld device to investigate, record and analyze data.

Procedure

• Pre-lesson activities for teacher:
  1. Create Wallwisher account and wall for responses for this lesson
  2. Teacher will create a tinyurl so students can navigate to wallwisher.com wall via iPod touches with ease.
  3. Download Walk and Play App for iPod Touch – Free App – from the iTunes Store
  4. Sync App to student's iPod Touches
  5. Download Blogpress App for iPod Touch – Free Version - from iTunes store
  6. Download Statistical iPod Touch app – Free Version – From iTunes store
• Lesson:
  1. Teacher will present facts about obesity and diseases and effects related to being overweight.
  2. Students and teacher will learn about and discuss importance of healthy eating and physical activity.
  3. Watch Video/videos on the importance of physical activity
  4. Complete exercise on brainpopjr.com
     or
  5. Watch video segments from The OrganWise Guys: Extreme Couch Potato [Full Video]. Available from Discovery Education
  6. Discuss and generate ideas on how to get more exercise
  7. Students will add their ideas to Wallwisher
  8. Students will use the "tinyurl" that the teacher created to navigate to Wallwisher wall via iPod Touches.
  9. Students will create usernames, avatars and become friends with classmates within Walk and Play App for iPod Touch
  10. Students will use this app to track their level of physical activity over the next week while they are at school.
  11. Activity will be tracked in Calories burned, teacher will need to explain that calories describe how much energy your body could gets from eating or drinking different types of food.
  12. (KidsHealth - online resource for more info)
  13. Students will track number of calories burned each day and the activities they were participating in using the notes section of the iPod touch, within Google Docs, or using Evernote (This will be the student's choice).
  14. After collecting data for one week, students will create a bar graph that displays the number of calories burned each day.
  15. The bar graph will be created using Excel, Inspire data, or the Statistical iPod Touch app. (This will be the student's choice)
  16. Students will compare finished graphs with peers and answer the following questions. (Questions will be in a Google form for students to answer on laptop computers. Students should refer back to their notes when answering questions.)
      1. On which day did you burn the most calories?
      2. How many calories did you burn that day?
      3. On the day that you burned the most calories, what activities did you participate in?
      4. On which day did you burn the least amount of calories?
      5. How many calories did you burn that day?
      6. On the day that you burned the least amount of calories, what activities did you participate in?
      7. How many calories did you burn total?
      8. What is the difference between the most and the least amount of calories burnt?
      9. Compare your graph to a classmate's graph.
      10. Who burnt more calories?
  17. Students write a paragraph to explain why they think that person burned more calories, and how a person can increase the amount of calories burned.
  18. This paragraph will be published to the class blog, using the Blogpress for iPod Touch app.
  19. Students will be required to comment on three other students' paragraphs on the class blog, using classroom laptops.

Materials

• iTouch, or other handheld computing devices, for class
• Walk and Play App for iPod Touch – Free App
• Blogpress for Ipod Touch App – Free Version
• Graphing software: Excel, InspireData, Google Spreadsheets, Numbers, or Statistical iPod Touch App
• Laptop computers with Internet access
• projector
• document camera
• Evernote application
• Google Docs accounts
• Wallwisher

Assessment

• The teacher will provide formative assessment throughout, in a verbal format, so students are aware whether or not they are on the correct path.
• Students' products will be assessed with rubrics for each part of the products, including graphs, and paragraphs.
• Rubrics for finished products will be created by students and teachers together using a rubric maker, such as Rubistar or Rubric Maker.

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