Teaching Physical Fitness, Physical Activity, and Wellness

1. Remember when you were in school, and remember something about fitness tests—what pops into your head when you think of physical fitness tests?

2. What is physical fitness? Name and define the components of health-related fitness.

3. For each component, write an explanation you might use with elementary children to explain to them why the component is important, and how it affects their bodies, both now and as they get older.

4. Choose one or two of the health-related fitness components. Describe one activity that you think a class of fifth graders would find enjoyable and which would help increase or maintain the learners’ level of fitness for that/those component.

5. Select one personal safety wellness concept (nutrition, drug, alcohol, and tobacco abuse, personal safety—bicycle, automobile, fire, water, personal and social responsibility, etc.). Create an activity that you might use in the gym with a third-grade class to help reinforce the concept.

6. Read one of the articles in your D2L folder (ONLINE Week #3 Chapter 28 Teaching Physical Fitness, Physical Activity, and Wellness). Why did you pick this article to read? Articulate 5 things that you learn about fitness and wellness?