Production Tool (Scrapblog)

I chose the following Indiana Academic Standard: 7.6.4 Discuss how personal health goals can vary with changing abilities or responsibilities. This is a health and wellness standard. This standard fits with the production tool I used because it allows students to creatively express their ideas and the information they find in an interesting way.

I chose Scrapblog as my production tool. I chose this tool because a lot of students enjoy presenting information in other ways than just reading it off to the class. With this production tool, students can use various templates to create their scrapblog. They can find pictures and information online and use it in their scrapblog along with the creative features that scrapblog offers to present their information in a unique way.

For this project, I would have my students pick their favorite athlete from the Winter Olympics to research. Then, they would look up the daily eating habits and activities of that athlete in order to determine what the athletes to do achieve their goals (going for Gold!). Next, the students would find pictures of the athlete competing and in his or her everyday life to put in their scrapblog. They would then combine the pictures with the information they found about the athlete in their scrapblog and present their findings to the class.

This production tool helps address this Indiana Academic Standard because students can compare and contrast the goals and habits of professional Olympic athletes with their own in order to see how health goals can vary with different responsibilities and abilities. Also, students can compare their favorite athlete's eating habits and daily activities with other students' favorite athletes in order to address the standard.

This is the link to an example scrapblog that I made for Apolo Ohno: http://www.scrapblog.com/892b6eff4e/066F9CED-D31B

Here is a screenshot of the cover of the scrapblog:

Mission Nutrition

This tool is called "Mission Nutrition." It is from kidshealth.org, which is a website for kids can explore and learn about their health.

This Content Exploration tool is a Drill-and-Practice tool. It is drill and practice because students use this tool to review knowledge they already have on nutrition. This activity seems like a game to kids because it is fun to answer the questions and see how many they can answer correctly. The students are shown a picture of an interactive kitchen where they can click around on objects and select answers. They are given one question/task to complete at a time such as: "Open the fridge and find the drink that contains the most added sugar." Students simply click on the fridge to open it, then click the drink they think contains the most added sugar based on information they have already learned about nutrition. Students are given feedback on their answer immediately and if they are wrong, they are given the chance to try again. If they select the correct answer, a follow-up question is provided for them to answer and then they can move on to the next part of the activity (next question).

This tool is very valuable for Health Education because teachers can tell their students to go to this site and play this game after a lecture or a reading in order to see how much of the material they actually learned. Students can use this game to practice and quiz themselves on what they have learned in class and to get feedback on how well they know the material. This tool keeps kids entertained while they test their knowledge.

This drill-and-practice tool makes learning more effective because students are able to practice the information they have already learned. It reinforces their previous knowledge and helps them retain the information more effectively because it causes them to answer questions about the material. It also enhances learning by creating an interactive game that entertains students and makes them want to learn so they can perform well in the game.

Here's the link to this Content Exploration Tool: http://kidshealth.org/kid/closet/games/game_nutrition.html

Exercise Podcast

I found this podcast online and it interested me a lot. The video doesn't contain a whole lot of information, but it does add some humor to the podcast. The rest of the document contains a lot more information that is very useful and important to read before or after watching each part's different podcast. The point of the podcast is to first of all inform and educate students about the obesity epidemic that is occurring in our country today. Also, the podcast gives a lesson to those students through the use of interactive activities in physical education class. The lesson consists of students formulating a goal for their target heart rate. The experiment/activity lasts one month and the students also get to learn about technology using this podcast because the lesson involves the use of the Nike + iPod Sport Kit, which is a new technological tool that has recently been developed. Throughout the month, students go through various checkpoints to see what kind of progress they have made. At the end of the month, a final evaluation is taken to see if the students have achieved their goal for the class.

http://www.mypyramid.gov/pyramid/index.html

This tool is an online source where students can go to learn more about the Food Pyramid. Students can click on each of the different sections of the Pyramid to learn about the different food groups and the daily recommendations for each type of food they should eat.

This tool makes learning more Effective because students can read for themselves about each different food group of the Food Pyramid, and they can use these facts for any kind of project that would deal with a healthy eating subject. Also, this tool makes learning more effective because students can find examples for each food group to eat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RxYvOvKHkU

This resource is a video from YouTube that explains different ways for people to design and start their own exercise program. It is done by a real personal trainer who has experience in designing exercise programs. The video explains how to make a personalized plan that students could use.

This video could be used to help make learning more Efficient. Instead of researching or reading through a textbook to design an exercise program for a project, students could watch this video in class and save time by doing so. They can learn how to complete their project in less time, making the project itself more efficient.

http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/htbw_main_page.html

This resource shows kids how the body works using many different interactive tools on the website. By clicking on one of the many body parts that the website shows, students can watch movies, take quizzes, read articles, and play games to learn about each different body part

This tool serves as an Enhancement for learning because it lets kids have fun and enjoy what they are doing while they learn about how the human body works. This cannot be done using just a regular text book, so the learning experience is greatly enhanced through this tool.