Content Area: Health and Physical Education

 

Index: 2.6C Grade 2 CPI 3

 

Standard: 2.6 - Fitness

 

Strand: C -   Achieving and Assessing Fitness

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 3 - The student will develop a fitness goal and monitor achievement of the goal.

 

Grade: 2

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        JOG AROUND THE WORLD - Students jog a simulated trip to their state capitol, a local historic site, or another state or country. Students use print and Internet resources to plan their trip. Use a large map to plot the path and number of miles the class or school travels.

 

·        SUCCEED! - Develop a series of cards that describe activities beginning with the letters in the word SUCCEED. Set up seven stations, one for each letter. Students circulate to each station, draw a card, and perform the exercise or skill named or illustrated on the card. If they perform it successfully, they keep the card and move on. Each student must be able to spell SUCCEED with their seven cards. Each student submits the SUCCEED cards to the teacher who issues them a challenge card. The challenge card instructs the student to perform one of the designated tasks again and to meet or exceed the number of repetitions already achieved. Ideas for challenge cards might include:

Sit-ups = 17
Under and over = 5 bridges
Cross-country skier = 10
Crunches = 8
Extensions, leg = 10
Exercise of choice = 5
Dribble and dunk jump = 10

Variation: Develop cards that have three levels of repetitions. The first time the student does the circuit, he/she completes the first level then progresses to the next higher level each time the circuit is repeated.