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?
Healthy people 2020 is a national initiative to get all citizens in the U.S. healthier. This
was started in 2010 and it is to have overall goals throughout their lives and to make
sure the parents are going through with this too and just the students. Using lifestyle
activities will improve overall health of America and becoming active is the main idea of
Healthy People 2020.
2. Explain the reasons behind recent efforts to make the promotion of
physical activity engagement a central goal for school physical
education programs.
The number one cause of death in the U.S. is heart disease. The reason for the efforts
to make the promotion of physical activity engagement a central goal for physical
education programs is having more goals to achieve them through physical education to
make these physical activity goals come to life. Another reason is working out and
being active to help prevent heart disease. Another reason is preventing kids to stay off
technology and keep active. One big reason is not enough states require PE and Health
so students are not being educated correctly. The last reason is there is a decrease in
schools programs and teachers, usually being PE teachers and classes being cut.
There needs to be a constant process of keeping up with life-long activities to stay fit.
3. Explain why efforts to raise physical fitness levels in youth have been
largely unsuccessful?
There are efforts to raise physical fitness levels in youth have been largely unsuccessful
because of the decrease in PE programs in high schools in the U.S. according to
USDHHS. Physical fitness is a short term goal for youth and needs to turn into a long
term goal. Students are not maturing with their peers and are becoming discouraged in
physical activities. Also youth are becoming too attached to their electronics, which is a
huge problem trying to get them off the couch and be active. Lastly youth are
sometimes being pressured into sports and activities and stop playing because they are
held to a standard and parents apply too much pressure and not every student likes
competition.

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

Physical maturity affects the physical skills of students because at the chronological
age, children are late in becoming mature which keeps some of them behind in skill
development. Also at the skeletal age children are early maturers which isnt a bad
thing because they develope skills earlier but it puts them ahead of a lot of other
students discouraging those to not participate.
5. Explain the harmful effects that being overweight can have on the
health and well-being of a student.
Overweight students performing in class can harmfully affect a healthy student because
if you show the overweight student more attention and alter their expectations it will
upset or cause the other student to not want to try or participate. It is important to know
your students and make sure the overweight student is comfortable with the
environment they are in. Never try point them out or call them out in front of the class
because that will make them feel targeted and not want to come to class. Also always
keep a positive learning environment will help those students even though you may not
know it.
6.

Discuss the impact of physical fitness and activity on academic

performance.

There is no higher priority in life than health. Without it, all other skills lack meaning and
utility. In the reading, it was said that there was a strong enough link between P.E. and
academic success. However without promoting good health for the home of the brain
will one's academic achievement matter? The book argued that without a healthy body
our ability to read and write becomes obsolete. However, in a presentation at
MAPHERD, one study showed how activity before learning increases brain activity. This
waking of the brain showed improvement in the student's learning ability over the
course of the day. They backed this argument up with with a study on less class time
and more physical activity and the statistics showed that the learner did not go down at
all for the students and it actually went up a little bit more. This is interesting because
the students had less learning time than usual.
7.

Identify safety guidelines for exercise and physical activity that should
be addressed and followed by physical education teachers.

Some safety guidelines for exercise and physical activity that should be addressed and
followed by physical education teachers is always avoiding injury or harm to the
students. The development of positive attitudes and feelings about exercise will
increase. Also moderations helps ensure the students grow up with positive feelings
towards maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Lastly, avoiding heat related exercises, trying to
reduce the length of the activities with dealing with the circumstances on a daily basis.

8. Explain the rationale for assigning fitness workloads on time rather

than distance or number.
The reason for assigning fitness workloads on time rather than the distance or number
is because if you as an instructor tell one of your students to do 25 push ups, they are
more likely to fail that task you provided. A way to resolve this is ask the student is give
the student the option to do as many push ups in 30 seconds as they can. What this
does is it motivates the student to attempt the activity you provided and there is no
embarrassment of how many they completed. The point of this rationale isnt to see
how fit your student is, it is more to see how much effort they put towards the activity so
they become more comfortable with your learning environment.