Grade 4: Active Living

Prescribed Learning Outcomes

It is expected that students will:

• participate regularly in physical activity
• demonstrate a willingness to participate in a variety of activities from all movement categories
• identify components of physical fitness and motor abilities
• describe and record changes in personal growth and development
• describe the importance of exercise and its effect on the body
• participate in warm-up and cool-down activities
• identify the nutritional needs related to physical activity
• identify and describe positive benefits gained from physical activity in a natural setting
• demonstrate and describe ways to achieve a personal functional level of physical fitness

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Suggested Instructional Strategies

Strategies:

• When students enter the gym, have them select a piece of equipment for the first five minutes of class.
• Use stations and task cards to provide students with fitness activities as a warm-up or as a lesson focus.
• Have students use a concept map to brainstorm the meaning of active living.
• Have students work in small groups to create a movement sequence that demonstrates their idea of active living.
• Have students design posters or write a poem about active living.
• Have students work in small groups to plan a fitness circuit encompassing activities and exercises to develop muscular endurance, strength, flexibility, and cardiovascular endurance.
• Have students set and modify personal fitness goals and record in a journal. Identify the factors that influence their participation in physical activity and their ability to achieve a functional level of physical fitness.
• Have students keep an activity calendar, and record daily participation in activities in and out of school.
• Have students record their daily food intake for a week, and compare this to their activity level. Discuss the relationship between nutrition and exercise.
• Have students list the social, mental, physical, and moral benefits of physical activities for each movement category, and make bingo cards.
• Have students keep a log of activities undertaken to achieve their personal fitness goals.

Suggested Assessment Strategies

• Using a weekly active-living calendar, have students record their daily food intake and their daily physical activities. At the end of a week, ask students to respond to the following frames in their journal:
  • When I look at my weekly physical activity and food intake, I notice . . . .
  • One pattern I notice in my physical activities is . . . .
  • One pattern I notice in my food intake is . . . .
  • One thing I would like to change is . . . .
• Support students in developing personal-activity goals. Conference with students to design action plans to achieve their goals. You may wish to have students record their personal-activity goals on a class chart. Encourage students to support one another in achieving their goals.
• Have students work with a partner to illustrate an activity to develop flexibility and strength that includes a warm-up and stationary exercises. Students explain their illustrations and talk about the benefits of participating in their fitness activity. Use the posters as fitness stations. Invite students to provide feedback about the instructions and appropriateness of the activity.

Recommended Learning Resources

Print Material

• Assessing Attitudes in Physical Education: A Collection of Assessment Tools
• Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating (Revised)
• The Canadian Active Living Challenge
• Fit Skip Ness: The Skipping Challenge
• Fitness for Children
• Fitness Fun (Promoting Health in P.E.)
• Heart Smart Kids
• Inclusion of Students with Special Needs in Physical Education
• Physical Education: VCE Units 1, 2, 3, 4
• A Quality Approach to Primary Physical Education: A Resource Guide for Teachers
• Running Through My Mind
• Skip to Health
• Teaching Children Fitness

• Because They're Young
• Fitness for Good Health
• Our Wonderful Body Series
• Teaching Children Fitness

• Moving to Inclusion

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