SUNY Cortland

Physical Education Department

Block Plan

Day 1: Click here to enter a date.

Instant Activity (IA) / Warm-up (Name and brief description of the IA, game): Poker Exercise, students flip a random playing card which corresponds to an activity they must perform

Intro: To Daily Burn, logging in, getting introduced to the site and all it has to offer

Lesson focus (Items to be covered during this day) : Pre-Assessment  Getting Comfortable with Daily Burn

Fitness component (Heart rate, step counts, etc.): All of them, Daily Burn covers all areas of fitness

Assessment(s): Make students aware of Picasa and print screen

Closure: Have students go home and enter in their first logs, print screen results and post it to blogs.

Day 2: Click here to enter a date.

Instant Activity (IA) / Warm-up (Name and brief description of the IA, game): Onion Jousting, Empty tennis ball cans and tennis ball required for each student, object is to balance your tennis ball upon the empty tennis ball can while others try to knock it off

Intro: Commend class on their blogs. Remind them that we are going to be contuing the workout.

Lesson focus (Items to be covered during this day):  Set Goals for Students

Fitness component (Heart rate, step counts, etc.): All of them, Daily Burn covers all areas of fitness

Assessment(s):

Closure: Remind them about blogs and print screens.

Day 3: Click here to enter a date.

Instant Activity (IA) / Warm-up (Name and brief description of the IA, game): Triangle Tag, groups of 4, one person the tagger, other 3 form a triangle, the tagger tries to tag

Intro: Well as you can see we are in the workout room today. We are going to be using the treadmills to achieve out workout for today.

Lesson focus (Items to be covered during this day):  Treadmill

Fitness component (Heart rate, step counts, etc.): Cardiovascular

Assessment(s): Run, Slide

Closure: Remind them to log and blog their workouts.

Day 4: Click here to enter a date.

Instant Activity (IA) / Warm-up (Name and brief description of the IA, game): Nintendo Wii Fitness

Intro: Today we are going to stray away from the treadmill and use the Step Up Machine.

Lesson focus (Items to be covered during this day):  Step Ups

Fitness component (Heart rate, step counts, etc.): Cardiovascular

Assessment(s): Up, Down

Closure: Log and Blog.

Day 5: Click here to enter a date.

Instant Activity (IA) / Warm-up (Name and brief description of the IA, game): Partner Tag, identify one person as the tagger and one person as the chaser, the chaser will have 30 seconds to tag the dodger, switch roles

Intro: Have everyone write down a number 1-50 on a piece of paper. Add up total, that’s now our goal for push ups as a class.

Lesson focus (Items to be covered during this day):  Push Ups

Fitness component (Heart rate, step counts, etc.): Musucular Strength, endurance

Assessment(s): Up, Down, Straight Back

Closure: That was an excellent job class, that will do it for now with push-ups. Really proud of you, log and blog

Day 6: Click here to enter a date.

Instant Activity (IA) / Warm-up (Name and brief description of the IA, game): Stretch the legs out, going to need them

Intro: Hey all, hope everyone’s day is going well so far, for today we are going to be outside on the track working with relay races.

Lesson focus (Items to be covered during this day):  Sprinting

Fitness component (Heart rate, step counts, etc.): Cardiovascular

Assessment(s): Run

Closure: Did everyone feel the burn today? I know I did that’s for sure. Great job today. Next class is going to be even more fun, log and blog.

Day 7: Click here to enter a date.

Instant Activity (IA) / Warm-up (Name and brief description of the IA, game): Everybody’s It Tag, everyone is it!

Intro: Last class we did relay races, now its going to individual sprints, we are doing the timed mile.

Lesson focus (Items to be covered during this day):  The Mile

Fitness component (Heart rate, step counts, etc.): Cardiovascular

Assessment(s): Run, Pace Yourself

Closure: I’m tired just by looking at you guys, but I’m proud of you, you are all doing so well, make sure to log and blog.

Day 8: Click here to enter a date.

Instant Activity (IA) / Warm-up (Name and brief description of the IA, game): Chuck The Chicken, break class into two teams, team A takes the chicken and in a single file line passing the chicken from beginning to end, then the last person throws it as far away as possible

Intro: Now we are going to switch gears and work on muscular strength, I have dumbbells that I brought in today, ranging from 5-25 pounds, use what you feel comfortable.

Lesson focus (Items to be covered during this day):  Dumbbells

Fitness component (Heart rate, step counts, etc.): Muscular Strength

Assessment(s): Elbows tucked in

Closure: That was great job today, log and blog

Day 9: Click here to enter a date.

Instant Activity (IA) / Warm-up (Name and brief description of the IA, game): Frisbee Horseshoes, player closest to cone receives 2 points, if player hits cone receives 5 points

Intro:

Lesson focus (Items to be covered during this day):  Bikes

Fitness component (Heart rate, step counts, etc.): Strength, Heart Rates, Endurance

Assessment(s): Up, Down

Closure: Log and Blog

Day 10: Click here to enter a date.

Instant Activity (IA) / Warm-up (Name and brief description of the IA, game): Don’t Get Caught With The Cookie, 2 students are taggers, half of the rest of the class are given balls, or cookies, taggers can only tag those with the cookie, those with the cookie may throw it to those without it to avoid being tagged,

Intro: We are going to be working on squats, use an appropriate weight, do not overdo yourself.

Lesson focus (Items to be covered during this day):  Squats

Fitness component (Heart rate, step counts, etc.): Strength

Assessment(s): Up, Down, Back Straight

Closure: Log and Blog.

Day 11: Click here to enter a date.

Instant Activity (IA) / Warm-up (Name and brief description of the IA, game): Paper or Plastic, Each student is given a plastic bag and a partner, partners are at opposite sides, each partner is instructed to toss the plastic bag in the air, then the other partner must move in a certain manner and catch the bag before it drops

Intro: Second to last day, get ready for next class, work by yourselves on any area of choice. There are pieces of equipment scattered across the gym, help yourselves, make sure to keep track of your workouts.

Lesson focus (Items to be covered during this day):  All

Fitness component (Heart rate, step counts, etc.): All of them, Daily Burn covers all areas of fitness

Assessment(s):

Closure: Great job everyone, I’m so proud, next class is our last class, be ready to get fit! Log and Blog.

Day 12: Click here to enter a date.

Instant Activity (IA) / Warm-up (Name and brief description of the IA, game): Get warm and ready for pacer test

Intro: The day is finally here, we are going to test your fitness with the pacer test.

Lesson focus (Items to be covered during this day):  Fitness, endurance

Fitness component (Heart rate, step counts, etc.): All of them, Daily Burn covers all areas of fitness

Assessment(s): Pace Yourselves!

Closure: Good job class, I hope you all enjoyed Daily Burn as much as I did, remember to post your final blog about it, reflect and include your final results. I hope to see you all continuing with your daily burn!