Teacher's Guide...Exercise: The Motion Potion

LESSON 1 ACTIVITY: Building Blocks for a Healthy Body

*Introduction:*	The Motion Potion video will be used as a starting point for a discussion of the components of physical fitness and the necessity to keep physically fit at any age. Students will create a chart showing each component and discuss how these fit into their own lifestyles.
*National Science Education Standards:*	Content Standard F: Science in Personal and Social Perspectives Personal Health
*Concepts & Principles:*	Regular exercise is important to the maintenance and improvement of a healthy personal environment. Benefits of physical fitness include maintaining healthy weight, having energy and strength, strong heart/lung systems, and improved mental health.
*Objectives:*	To determine the effect of regular physical activity on an individual's health. To list components that contribute to physical fitness and identify activities to develop these components.
*Cross-Curricular Connections:*	Physical Education: • Identify how performance in sports/activitites improves with a greater fitness level. Language Arts: • Write a description of one of the chosen activities and tell how it helps improve fitness and why it might be an enjoyable activity. Art: • Design a title for a fitness chart and draw pictures of activities that can't be found in magazines.
*Process Skills:*	Communicating Classifying Inferring Modeling Graphing
*Lesson Description:*	After watching the video, students will discuss the benefits of regular exercise on health. Using books, Internet sites, and interviews with health professionals, students will develop a list of components that contribute to physical fitness and some activities which develop these components.
*Materials:*	In quantities appropriate for class size: markers, colored pencils, or crayons chart paper sports/lifestyle magazines glue or tape scissors
*Suggested Time Frame:*	One 45 minute class period.
*Procedure:*	Begin the lesson by having students brainstorm the benefits of physical activity on personal health and develop a concept map or a simple list of these benefits. Watch the video and instruct students to focus on the benefits and personal satisfaction of participating in a regular exercise program. Discuss the three components of physical fitness: • Stamina or cardiovascular endurance • Muscular strength • Flexibility Use the components listed in number 3 above as headings for a three columned chart drawn on large paper. Students can look through magazines to find pictures which illustrate each component and attach them to the chart. If unable to find suitable pictures, they may draw or describe their suggested activity. Each group will then share its chart with the class, and a master list of suggested activities will be developed.
*Suggested Discussion Questions:*	What are some activities that include more than one component of physical fitness? How could you incorporate some of these activitiesinto your life now? Why is exercise important? What physical activities do you like/dislike? Why? If there is an activity that you do not currently enjoy, what would you change to make it more appealing?
*Further Investigations:*	Keep the chart that has been developed, and add new activities as they are discovered. Talk to coaches, athletes, or personal trainers about the kinds of activities they recommend for each component.
*Career Opportunities:*	Aerobics Instructor Physical Therapist Exercise Physiologist Kinesiologist Athletic Trainer Sports Coach
*Assessment Procedures:*	Check each group's chart to see that all categories have been addressed with appropriate activities. Students should write in science journals about their plans to include fitness in their lives.

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