RR5

Reading Reflection 5: 

READ the ITU Overview ppt. 

RR5: As a school team, IDENTIFY a theme for your ITU and SHARE ideas and a draft for a Cover Sheet with you ITU team.

The theme for our ITU in a sense, will reflect the role as a personal trainer.  Students will learn how muscles contract and work in the human body when exercising.  Learning this information will give meaning to fitness exercises and students will know what is happening to their bodies in a physiological sense while exercising.  They will also learn basic anatomical vocabulary, so they will be able to identify what muscles they are doing certain exercises in and how increasing strength in those certain muscles will improve performance in various activities based on the child’s interest.  In Physical Education class, students will be learning proper mechanics of various exercises, and the benefits of doing  fitness.  In Physical Education they will learn how living a fit life prevents diseases, reducing of health care costs, and increase in the quality of life.  In Algebra class, students will be studying the mathematical side of fitness and health.  They will learn how to calculate BMI, body fat percentage, caloric need and caloric expenditure.   At the end if the unit students will be able to create a month long fitness regimen for themselves based off the Algebraic equations they learned in math, and fitness goals they would like to achieve.  They will be able to create the exercises and how those exercises will go towards their goal from what they have learned in Biology class and Phys Ed.  At the end of the unit students will have accumulated a diverse set of information they will be able to refer to for the whole of their lives to maintain a fit and healthy life style using exercise.