OK, teaching cyber school physical education is unique in itself. Certainly the assignments we post are different in their own right as well. I was thinking how I enjoyed our recent "exercise unit" that we just wrapped up this week. One of the assignments I issue pertains to the 6 factors of exercise (a PA state standard). You know what they are: finances, access to equipment/facility, motivation, physical benefits, personal challenge and self improvement.
My assignment simply asks the students to choose any 3 out of the 6 factors that relate best to the way they go about attaining physical activity each week. In addition, students are required to select any exercise they like and perform and dcoument 4 different days on their own.
If it sounds simple, it is. The students like this assignment as well. They can be introspective here and have the freedom to choose whatever exercise suits them best. You can imagine that finances and access to activity shape the way teenagers exercise these days.
I like to post the following comment to students after the submit this particular assignment: What would you do for exercise if you had unlimited resources?
I know I would work out at the YMCA every day and meet with a personal trainer at least once a week. I would probably get in a tennis game once a week as well as a good swim a few times a month. Wouldn't it be cool to access DDR and Wii systems whenever you felt like it? How about climbing a treadwall? Would having perpetual up to date statistics on recent workouts come in handy?
That would be just the tip of the ice berg for me. I get a wide variety of suggestions from students on this question. Some choose only what they know but others seem to get the big picture and dream big. Some day I would like to get them all to think that way.
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