PHED 239: High School Module

Cooperative Learning Presentations - Chapter 2

Total pts = 10
Your cooperative learning group will become the content experts by finding
the answers to the questions below. Discuss the question assigned from
the list below with your partner and be ready to present you answer (be
creative) in class on the scheduled date (tba) 3 minutes!
1. What is Healthy People 2020?
Get everyone in America healthy in every way, social,
environmental, physically etc. Become a healthy nation
Access to healthy food and exercise
Inform not only children but parents as well
Lifestyle activities will improve overall health of America
(walking, hiking, etc.)
Healthy and active is the main idea
2. OUR QUESTION
Explain the reasons behind recent efforts to make the promotion of
physical activity engagement a central goal for school physical
education programs.
1. There is an increase in obesity and a decrease in physical education.
Number one cause of death in US is heart disease!
2. Physical Fitness goals were not being met.
3. It is a method for chronic disease prevention.
4. Children and adults generally exceed recommended screen time.
5. Most adolescents dont meet the current federal physical activity
guidelines.
6. Not enough schools require PE.
7. There has been a decrease in the number of PE programs in high
schools in the US

3. Explain why efforts to raise physical fitness levels in youth have been
largely unsuccessful?
- Decrease in PE programs in high school
- Physical fitness is short term goal for youth
- increasingly attaches to electronics. They rely on handheld
gaming to have fun instead of going outside
- Pressured into sports or activities and stop playing because
they are held to a standard
- Students feel they are not as skulled and then drop out of PE.

4. Explain how physical maturity affects the physical skills of students.

- Chronological age> skeletal age=child is a late maturer
- Skeletal age > chronological age- child is an early mature
- PE curriculum should meet needs of both late and early
maturing students less strength and size activities, and more
aerobic, agility, balance and coordination activities.
5. Explain the harmful effects that being overweight can have on the
health and well-being of a student.
- With overweight students, they can feel like they are being
looked down at. Make them feel comfortable.
- Some factors: health issues, diabetes, pushing students too
hard,
- They know their bodies better than you. COMMUNICATE
6. Discuss the impact of physical fitness and activity on academic
performance.
- Exercise wakes up the mind and allows you to focus on your
work.
- Well timed exercise throughout the day will help get active
7. Identify safety guidelines for exercise and physical activity that should
be addressed and followed by physical education teachers.
- Avoidance of physical injury or harm
- Maintenance and development of positive attitude and feeling
about exercise
- Using moderation helps ensure the students grow up with
positive feelings towards healthy lifestyles
- METS- ratio of work metabolic rate and resting metabolic rate.
8. Explain the rationale for assigning fitness workloads on time rather
than distance or number.
- Students feel better about private accomplishments that are set
in a small time frame rather than you have to do 25 pushups before
you can partake in the activity.