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ChooseMyPlate.gov provides practical information to individuals, health professionals, nutrition educators, and the food industry to help consumers build healthier diets with resources and tools for dietary assessment, nutrition education, and other user-friendly nutrition information.

ChooseMyPlate.gov is a website that's mainly geared towards nutrition. Even though I'm doing Physical Education and technology bringing a different aspect into this such as health and nutrition would be interesting to show people that you can bring tech into any class. So a little bit on MyPlate. MyPlate is the current nutrition guide given by the United States Department of Agriculture which includes a place setting with a plate and glass divided into five food groups. The five food groups are divided into sections of approximately 30 percent grains, 40 percent vegetables, 10 percent fruits and 20 percent protein, with a smaller circle representing dairy, which is a glass of milk or a yogurt cup. It replaced the USDA's MyPyramid guide and will be brought into the health classes across the U.S.

If I were to teach this segment to my students I definitely would use the website ChooseMyPlate.gov because it’s easy to use, very educational, interactive, and would actually teach the right proportions and foods a young adult would have to eat to stay healthy and maintain a healthy lifestyle growing up.

Students often dread running laps, but they'll line up for dancing indoors.

So how many of you have walked through a Dave and Busters or an adjustment park arcade and heard two people stomping on a key pad on the floor moving a mile a minute. Or brought out those big square pads at your friends sleep over. Yes its Dance Dance Revolution and its changing the look and interests of the ordinary Physical Education classes everywhere.

“It's 10:30 A.M. on a Tuesday, and a dozen ten-year-olds are jumping up and down, arms flailing in the air, in a classroom at Los Angeles's Marvin Avenue Elementary School. They've been at it for a half hour now and have yet to exhaust their energy, although a few are audibly gasping for breath over the dance music that's driving their activity.

It may sound like all hell has broken loose, but these fifth graders are neatly lined up in rows, their eyes glued to a television screen, trying as best they can to follow the game. They're playing Dance Dance Revolution (DDR), a video game that's helping schools nationwide revive student interest in gym class.”

This quote is straight from the beginning of this article that’s about how there’s a new trend inside of Physical Education classes and its sparking interest in the subject again. Going from students dreading those infamous laps around the gym to wanting and moving for the entire class period just shows how an interactive video games can change the minds and interests of students. The article talks about how that old game Dance Dance Revolution makes “gym class” fun and interactive again. It’s bringing something that is fun and interactive but also has a wide fan base into the for front of education. These games that are being brought into the classes are called “Exergames”. Exergames are or exer-gaming or gamercising is a term used for video games that are also a form of exercise. Ecergaming relies on technology that tracks body movement or reaction. I think that this a great and fun way to bring something that everyone knows how to do, dance, and incorporating another aspect everyone enjoys, video games and changing the purpose into physical activity. It’s a great way to bring new and old technology into classes.

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Combining Yoga and Physical Education is a major advancement in schools. To incorporate technology in this part of the lesson unit I would probably show my class something like this. This is a “How to” video on you-tube of some of the more basic yoga positions and breathing techniques for beginners. Bringing yoga into schools has shown great strides in the behavior and attention span of students. it gives them an alternative route besides getting into trouble and going to detention, we could incorporate meditation and yoga to relax kids and control their behavior inside of the classroom. It is also shown that being active stimulates the brain and increases blood for so the students pay attention more and for a longer period of time.

So often I get asked “What’s your favourite app for #PhysEd?” or “What one app do you use all the time with you students?” A few years ago when I started iPhys-Ed.com as a place to talk about technology in physical education I probably would have responded with Ubersense or Coach’s Eye, however through my...

So the last post was the Blog on iPhys-Ed.com and I was looking through it before and saw this post that kind of popped out at me because I’m always looking for different apps to use and try out to see if they would be user friendly inside of a classroom. Now what I agreed with inside of that blog post was when he was asked “What’s your favorite app for #PhysEd?” or “What one app do you use all the time with you students?” and his response was “I probably would have responded with Ubersense or Coach’s Eye, however through my professional journey I have come to see that there is no ONE app that I use all the time or ONE favorite app that serves my students the best.” I agree with this statement because thinking about technology evolving there will always be an updated app of the same thing or that they just need a little change to the lesson so they change the app they use. I think using multiple apps for the same skill also gives students different aspects to see the same topic, skill, or lesson.

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Just searching the web and came across this other blog about Tech and PE which was pretty cool. They have a variety of different blog posts about tech and PE which I found some new info and old info but most of it was very educational and kind of reminded me of the connected learning segment in Instructional Design 2. It connected me to to that because not a like a lot of other blogs that i had seen all the information on those blogs were of just one topic or school or person. This blog has information from everywhere, and everything. From conventions in Hing Kong to app smashing on fitness apps. They even have different ways of social media and technologies for the classrooms. I also liked how they posted something every month as a topic of discussion.

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Male high school students exercise in a stringent physical education class, 1958

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I was just searching through the tumbler app on my phone and came across this picture. It says “ Male high school students exercise in a stringent physical education class, 1958″. Just a brief reaction at first glance, I was thinking wow I cant believe that used to be the structure of a physical education class. Yes I know its way back in 1958 but still looking at phys ed classes now we have come such a enormous way from straight lines, and strict exercises that make you hate going to gym class. The classes now are full of different skills and activities, even bettering your lifestyle. I also thought because of the tech class how bland those classes must of been without using any technology in them. There was no room for making your brain larger it was just do the exercises, be fit, and that’s that. I just thought it was crazy how much we as physical education teachers and classes have changed and how much more they will be evolving through the future with the infusion and and use of technology.

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PE Lesson Plans and Games Kids Will Love

A physical education program is an important part of every student’s day, all the way from kindergarten until 12th grade. A lot of PE teachers struggle to get their kids motivated to be active for 60 minutes (or even less) per day so they often find fun games that both the kids like and requires them to move around. A lot of kids will hate the idea of doing push-ups every single day, but if you present them with a fun game of freeze tag with their friends they will be more motivated to exercise. Several PE resources have free PE lesson plans online to help get your class moving in the right direction. Kids always love games with their friends; here are five popular PE games that kids will love.

Freeze Tag: The perfect game to ensure the kids are getting their aerobic activity is freeze tag. The game is basic but can have additional cross-curricular elements added in. The teacher forms two teams and one of the teams tries to tag the other team while they are running from one base to another. If a student is tagged, they must freeze until one of their teammates comes to “unfreeze” them.

Classroom Olympics – Most kids will love the idea of a school Olympics where each home classroom is a team competing for the most gold, silver, and bronze medals throughout a week period. Not all events need to be physically challenging but typical track and field events are a great way to get the kids excited for exercising. Get the kids excited in advance so they begin physically training for their specific events.

Red Light-Green Light - A great game for young kids that will improve their reaction time, listening abilities, and involves physical activity. One player calls out “green light” while the others all try to make it from one line to the other. If the main player says “red light” then all of the students must immediately stop and whoever does not is removed from that round. The first player to make it all the way across wins.

Kickball: Not every kid is good at baseball, but use a big bouncy ball instead and all kids will love playing kickball. Setup the game similar to baseball, but the person up to bat kicks the ball and attempts to run all the bases and make it to home base before the other team tags them out. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.

Capture the Flag: All students are involved in a game of capture the flag which is perfect for a PE class activity. The goal is for each team to try and capture their designated flag out of the other team’s home base without getting tagged. If they are tagged, they must wait in an assigned area until one of their teammates tags them out to free them. The first team to take their own flag back to their home base wins.

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I just wanted to post this to discuss kind of how I would integrate technology in this lesson plan if I were to teach this in one of my classes:

Freeze tag- for this activity i would have 1 or 2 iPad's on the side of the class with a power point of different exercises constantly going. When the game begins who ever gets tagged or “frozen” will have to make their way over to the iPad's and perform the exercise before they can go back into the area and be “unfrozen”.

Classroom Olympics- for this class it would involve a little bit of pre-planning and outside school work. I would have each students go online on what ever forum they can and get 2-3 articles about their Olympic team and bring it into class. i would also want the teams to pic 3 of the most interesting facts or articles they have found and present them before they do the games.

Red Light-Green Light- for this I would have first have a recording of the words that are being called out. Second i would have the teacher record it so they can go back and see who moved, just to make the game a little more challenging for them to complete.

Kickball- so before I introduced kick ball i would of liked to show the class on you-tube maybe on a projector or smart-board the proper way to strike/kick the ball in kickball.

Capture the Flag- in this activity i would definitely want to use heart rate monitors or pedometers to see how hard the students are working or how many steps they have completed in this one activity and calculate it into miles. I would only use it for this activity or maybe freeze tag because most of the students will be constantly running around or moving.

PE Central is a web site that provides information about developmentatally appropriate physical education practices and programs.

Here’s a sample lesson that I would take into my physical education class to incorporate technology to see and assess if students are taking their heart rates correctly. I really feel like this is a successful way to bring technology into a physical education classroom and having every student understand how to use this to calculate your heart rates. In college I have taken many classes where I would use a heart rate monitor in a similar way. It not only was easy to use and understand but it really made me understand and make sure I’m taking down my heart correctly and why its important to have the correct heart rate.

Some educators are turning to technology to create more dynamic classes that work for students with a wide range of fitness levels. Here are some examples of

Here is article just giving a couple of different ways that technology can be used with in Physical Education. From pedometers to measure a persons steps, heart rate monitors to take down the proper heart rate to see how much or hard someone is working in regards to their heart rate. Health tracking which uses both the pedometer and heart rate monitors to come up with a long-term plan for advancing a persons health. There are apps such as MapMyFitness and MyFitnessPal to help with tracking and nutritional help. There’s apps that can help with improvement to ones athletic abilities and to use Google Earth to record and see distances to try to complete. On the web there’s also tons of “How to” videos to help learn different subjects and skills and finally there’s my favorite, games. Such as Wii Sports or Dance Dance Revolution that can be brought into schools for fun fitness activities.

This is a Ted Talk by Paul Zientarski on how we as educators have to focus on fitness more then sport skill building for students to take away into their adulthood so they can create and keep a healthy lifestyle going as they grow. Not to much technology is talked about in this Ted Talk but its just a good basis of what Physical Education should be driven towards.

Here is a discussion mainly about fitness/sports and physical education with a little bit of technology thrown in. Well mainly technology but how it helps more then destroy and how useful it is for staying healthy and active. I’ll be diving into anything from a fitness app to replace a personal trainer to what kinds of things can we bring into the gymnasium to make it fun and interactive for students and teachers in all schools. So here you go enjoy!

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