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		Fitness WebQuest ^Votes:0 MANTENO FITNESS EXPERTS A WEB QUEST FOR HIGH SCHOOL P.E. STUDENTS INTRODUCTION (The following is a hypothetical situation used strictly as a learning experience.) Have you ever wanted to tell your teachers what to do? If you said "yes", here is your chance! In an effort to create a more productive and cohesive atmosphere for all Manteno Community Unit District #5 employees, the Board of Education has adopted a philosophy of "a healthy individual in a healthy workplace." It is the boards opinion that healthy, physically fit employees take fewer sick days, and are therefore more productive and happier in the workplace. Your teachers have been given an opportunity to participate in a fitness program sponsored by the district. Unfortunately, the district has not earma Read More Go to Site


		FitQuest ^Votes:0 Fitness - The Key to Survival "We've made great strides in the last decade, but America still falls seriously behind other nations in Fitness." Arnold Schwarzenegger "It's easier to maintain good health than it is to regain it once it's lost." Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper - the "Father of Aerobics" Introduction Task Resources Process Evaluation Conclusion Introduction If we are such a fitness conscious country, why are we also the fattest country in the world? Since the majority of the money makers in this world sit in front of computers most of the day, how are they going to stay healthy long enough to live a productive life at home and away from the office? What can we do to insure that people in our country, and around the world, have some knowledge as to what they can do to keep themselves in Read More Go to Site

		Human or Primate Student Page ^Votes:0 Link to Teacher Page Bodyworks http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/hawthorne/bodyworks by Bill Bickel Introduction \| Task \| Resources \| Process \| Evaluation \| Conclusion Introduction You are a new teacher getting ready to teach your class a unit on the human body. You ask your students what things they would like to know about their bodies and they come up with many questions. Your job is to now find out the answers to the questions they have asked. The Task As the teacher, you must find the answers to a series of questions about the human body. Fill in the blanks at the end of the question with your answers. You will also be given an illustration of a human skeleton. You are to fill in the names of the bones indicated by the lines pointing to the bones. Resources Links to sites on the intern Read More Go to Site

		Kids 'N Fitness ^Votes:0 Logged in as guest Overview Co-nexercise Results Co-nexercise Create an Athlete Student Athlete Profiles Kids N Fitness Curriculum Teacher's Guide Resources Return to Projects Create an Athlete Submit Your Athlete to Co-nect's Online Olympics Page! March 7 - April 30, 2003 Ever dream about being an Olympic athlete? Well, here's your chance to see what it takes to live that dream. In this activity, you learn what it takes to be an Olympic caliber athlete and then create your own fictitious athlete to post to the Web site. To join the activity, review the questions below and the links, then fill out the nomination form by April 30, 2003. After nominating your athlete, he or she will appear will appear on the Student Athlete Profiles . Question 1: Who is your athlete? Your first step is to cr Read More Go to Site

		Kids 'N Fitness ^Votes:0 Logged in as guest Overview Co-nexercise Results Co-nexercise Create an Athlete Student Athlete Profiles Kids N Fitness Curriculum Teacher's Guide Resources Return to Projects Project Overview Archived Project Grades K-12 This project ran from 2000 - 2003. It is now an archived project. Co-nect no longer runs the online portion of the project. However, teachers and fitness professionals can still access the fitness curriculum and participate in the activities offline. Get ready...Get set...Go! Join students across the country as they get in shape during Kids N' Fitness, a Co-nect project promoting health and wellness in K-12 classrooms across the country. Kids N' Fitness has two online activities: Create an Athlete which runs from March 7 through April 30, 2003 and Co-nexercise which runs Read More Go to Site

		Mrs. Hanson's Physical Education Web Quest ^Votes:0 Welcome to Mrs. Hanson's Jump Rope WebQuest This WebQuest is an opportunity for students to explore the topic of rope jumping . Students will need to use technology skills to gather information about the topic of jump rope. They will need to use reading and evaluating skills to select pertinent information. All of the information will be processed in order to produce a final written product. Written and oral skills will be used to support their final product. This lesson makes strong connections within the curriculum areas of English and Language Arts, Health, Physical Education and Science and Technology. Lessons are aligned with the Maine State Learning Results. This interdisciplinary lesson has been developed to heighten the awareness of the benefits of rope jumping . This WebQuest is a Read More Go to Site

		Our Lady of Peace School ^Votes:0 The Computer Integration Activities are now located at a new address. Please update your bookmarks to: http://www.swlauriersb.qc.ca/english/edservices/pedresources/webquest/cia.htm You will be taken to the new address shortly Read More Go to Site

		P.E. - Warm-up and Cool-down Ideas ^Votes:0 Warm-Up and Cool-Down Games Ideas Other PE Ideas Share Your Own Ideas P.E. - Warm-up and Cool-down Ideas Welcome to the Physical Education pages. Look at the Warm-up and Cool-down P.E. ideas and resources listed below, or browse around the other P.E. sections using the bar above. Complete Cricket Set The complete cricket set comes with carry bag, gloves, leg pads, bat, rubber ball, 4 stumps and wickets. Beans Activity - A very useful (and fun!) warm-up activity. Pirate Ship - A fun warm-up game in which children pretend to be on board a pirate ship. Smugglers - A competitive warm-up game, which encourages children to steal from one another! Sheep Tig - A fun warm-up game which involves pretending to be sheep! The Video Game - An enjoyable warm up activity involving video recorder controls! Read More Go to Site

		Put the Title of Your WebQuest Here ^Votes:0 Help Keep Your Classmates Healthy Design A Game a WebQuest for Kindergarten through 2nd grade in Physical Education by David Ascolani Introduction \| Task \| Resources \| Process \| Evaluation \| Conclusion Introduction Students your help is needed to create a new game for your school's physical education class. The Principal and Physical Education Teacher need new ideas of different games that could be used in our Physical Education classes. The new game will be used in the your physical education classroom with you and your classmates. Good luck on creation of a new and exciting game for everyone to enjoy. The Task Have fun, be creative and be willing to take a chance. Create a new game using one or more skills from the following list: Loco motor movement skills crawl, walk, jog, run, skip, h Read More Go to Site

		STRENGTH AND FITNESS COACH ^Votes:0 STRENGTH AND NUTRITION A Webquest for the 9-12 grades (HEALTH AND PHYSICAL FITNESS) Designed by Jason Schroeder Jason Schroeder jschroed@olivet.edu Introduction \| Task \| Process \| Learning Advice \| Resources \| Evaluation \| Conclusion \| Notes to the Teacher INTRODUCTION You are a freelance personal trainer trying to increase your clientele list. On the plane home from a nutrition conference in Los Angeles, you end up sitting next to your favorite professional athlete. You explain to him/her that your job is to create individualized diet and exercise programs for your clients. By the time that your plane arrives at your destination, your favorite professional athlete decides to take you on as their personal trainer. It is your job to design a exercise program and individualized diet for your Read More Go to Site

		Susan's PE Site ^Votes:0 Susan's Physical Education, Health and Sports Site Home http://www.hccanet.org/patricks 08/20/2001 last updated Activities Home Adaptive P.E. Resources Activities Kids' Stuff Field Day P.E. Sites Sports Football Skills Assessmen t Monster Mash Musical Chairs Basketball Baseball Build a Skeleton Carolina Football Soccer Kickball Mat Ball Cup Stacking Aerobic Basketball American Gladiators Basketbowl Fitness Fanatics Invent a Game Tennis Ball Scramble Continuous Tag Courtesy Tag Gorodki Human Checkers King Ball Locomotor Activities S.O.S. Topsy Turvy USA Relay Basketball Spot Shot Human Ladder Fish Gobbler Tennis Ball Flurry Shark Island Steal the Treasure since 1/1/2001 To contribute an activity, please contact webmaster . Read More Go to Site

		Video WebQuest ^Votes:0 An engaged learning WebQuest for high school physical education students Introduction Your physical education teacher has just announced she will be gone for four days and you will be having a substitute. You immediately react with panic and anxiety as you remember the last time she was gone and the awful fitness videos she left as a lesson plan. Your teacher was distressed over the non-participation the substitute noted and you were extremely embarrassed by doing the exercises in the video. So, to compromise with your teacher, you and five friends volunteer to make your own step aerobics video that includes your favorite exercises. Task Your challenge is to research exercises and create your own exercise video. Guiding your groups challenge to create your video will be this essentia Read More Go to Site

		Welcome to the Orienteering page! ^Votes:0 Orienteering by Jason Askegreen Introduction Orienteering tasks are used everyday by everyone. Having to find your way around the campus to different classrooms and lunch areas require navigation and sense of direction. More specifically, orienteering is the process of using a compass, a map and running from marker to marker to complete a course. This sport is well known around the world and is becoming more popular in America. The Task In this week-long lesson you will learn the components of orienteering, design your own map and compete in races. The finished products will be: an understanding of how to use a compass an understanding of how to read a contour map an appreciation for the explorer's and their skills in orienteering Resources The primary resource for calculating your diet an Read More Go to Site

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