Jessica
Shawley
NASPE National Middle School
Physical
Education Teacher of the Year
2012
NASPE
National
Middle
School
Teacher
of the Year
Jessica Shawley, Moscow
Moscow Middle School
in Moscow,
Idaho
Middle School, Idaho
[email protected]
Achieving MVPA the ACTIVE PLAY Way!
Part 2: MyPlate Nutrition with Skillastics, FitDeck & Dairy Council
Fun twists to games and activities that integrate health, literacy, nutrition and fitness concepts
while holding students accountable for their movement with pedometers.
PEDOMETER POWER: Achieving MVPA through Active Play!
1. Step count formula: Estimate 80 per min. of activity. Want students are active 50% of class time.
2. Self-assessments: Students set a step goal and try to reach it. Ask them to show thumbs up/down
if they did. Can record on team sheet, sheet on wall, or log. Time saver: just record first two #’s.
3. Teacher assessment: Check a few at a time of student’s steps during/at end of activity. Or have all
line up at end of lesson and hold up pedometer. Go down line & do a quick check (+/-).
4. Meet or Beat Challenge: Stop half-way through activity and check pedometers. Reset and make it
a goal to “meet or beat” that step count (or compare it to step count from previous day or a
different lesson (maybe you are comparing jogging to game). Or meet or beat the teacher’s count!
5. Inter-activity Challenges: In Round Robin or SSGs, determine winner by step counts and/or goals
(“x” amount of steps = extra number of goals). Honor an overall step winner/team for fun!
6. StepMaster’s Club or ‘Pedominators’ Wall: recognize those hard working students. Or track total
number of steps toward s goal/distance to travel and connect with math and social studies classes.
From a NASPE Workshop: “Perceived competence sustains participation.”
Set them up for success!
Pedometers in my Middle School PE Program:
My students come out of the gym and put on their pedometer and immediately begin walking the
gym, listening to the music and visiting. I use the wall pedometer storage system to take
attendance. If they don’t have on their pedometer they are absent. Its as easy as that. Keep
practicing the routine and they will fall into it very easily. Giving them the opportunity to be
active immediately has TREMENDOUSLY eliminated the discipline issues teacher normally
face with squads, etc. When the music stops students go to their spot “squad” or I have them
bring it in to me so we can get started with our day right away. I challenge you to use pedometers
EVERY DAY. I do informal pedometers checks almost daily and then once a week I do a formal
check that is part of their participation grade. Pedometers are a PERFECT TOOL for PE!
Extension to the pedometer walking warm-up: Four Corner Fitness
Hang signs up on all four corners of your gym listing a variety of dynamic movements for an
active warmup to get the body ready to move. Students go at their own pace completing each
exercise from corner to corner and for a given amount of time. Then they are ready to roll!
Example for your four corners:
1) Lunges
1) Jog
1) Speed Walk
1) Buttkickers
2) Side Shuffle
2) Walking toe-touch 2) Lunge
2) Carioca
3) Walking toe-touch 3) High Knees
3) Buttkickers
3) Side Shuffle
4) Repeat
4) Repeat
4) Repeat
4) Repeat
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Session Handouts: www.mygymshorts.schoolspecialty.com
NASPE National Middle School Physical Education Teacher of the Year
Jessica Shawley, Moscow Middle School in Moscow, Idaho
Skillastics, FitDeck Fitness & MyPlate Nutrition Activities
Variation #1: My Plate Nutrition & Food Bucks Activity:
EQUIPMENT: 10 cones, 1-2 decks of FitDeck cards or several exercise floor spots, or exercise
signs, 6 Hulahoops, Collection of Food Group Cards (from Sportime MyPlate Healthy Helpings
Game, or Dairy Council cards), and Skillastics Nutrition Cards.
SKILLS: Overall Fitness, Cooperative Team Challenge,
CONCEPTS: Fitness theme for the day AND Nutrition. My Plate.
SETTING: Teams of 5, six teams.
“Food Bank” Food Group Cards
One hula hoop per
team as their plate.
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Scatter 10 or more cones. Place 3 Fit Deck Cards or
floor spots at each (provide multiple exercise choices).
Each team selects one cashier (put on a wrist band or jersey to designate for ease).
Teams disperse and complete physical activities to earn Food “BUCKS” (tickets, etc.).
A student goes to a cone, completes 10 reps of the exercise of their choice and then finds the
Teacher (Banker) to ask for a Food Buck (I use SKILLASTICS NUTRTION CARDS).
Then student goes to another cone and repeats the process to earn more bucks.
Teams collect their bucks to cash them in at the food bank.
When a team cashier turns in 10 bucks (or 5 depending upon time) to the Teacher they are
allowed to go shopping for a food item (food card in bucket).
Cashier takes the food card back to their plate (teammates are still earning bucks during this).
Continue until a certain amount of time, or until everyone has a full plate, or whatever the
goal may be. If students believe their plate is full they can continue to exercise and try out the
cards they have not done yet. They are to always select a new cone and new activity each
time until they have done them all or until time is up (usually time expires first).
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NASPE National Middle School Physical Education Teacher of the Year
Jessica Shawley, Moscow Middle School in Moscow, Idaho
Tips/Tricks: It gets a bit crazy and fun, so try having multiple bankers….allowing one rep from
each team to be a banker for a certain amount of time. Then blow the whistle to freeze play and
switch bankers. This way everyone gets a “rest” period.
There are many variations/rounds you can play. The format is: Simple. Fun. Effective,
Gets Heart Rates Up. Lots of Movement/Steps/Activity Time. Also teaches honor system.
Round Variations:
Round 1: Get one piece of food for each food group. Debrief: Is it a balanced plate?
Round 2: Collect as much food as you can. Debrief: Is it a balanced plate?
Round 3: Create an actual meal. Debrief: Is it a balanced meal?
Have a specific exercise focus for the cones (strength, agility, muscular endurance, cardio)
or have an overall theme to ALL the cones for a specific workout. Vary the repetitions.
NUTRITION – HELATH LITERACY EXTENSION:
Using the same set up as above and focusing now on the SKILLASTICS NUTRITION CARDS,
place a pile of the nutrition cards at each cone. Along with the Fit Deck exercise choice cards.
Have each team where different colored jerseys. You can repeat colors if you don’t have 6
colors. So now, students go to a cone and have a ‘friendly face-off’ with a member from another
team. They say, “I challenge you to a nutrition battle” and the other person says, “Challenge
accepted!” or whatever you want them to do…They each take one Nutrition Quiz card (the
Skillastics Nutrition cards) and cover up the answer (on the bottom right hand side) and quiz
each other. They can read and show the other person the card (as some people are better visual
than auditory learners. They each answer each other’s cards. If they get the answer correct they
do 5 reps of their exercise choice and then get to go to the food bank. If they answer incorrectly
they must do 10-15 reps and put the card at the bottom of the pile.
Depending upon how many nutrition quiz cards you use, you could have students put the cards at
the bottom of the pile no matter if they answer correctly or incorrectly. OR, if they answer
correctly they bring the card to you to cash in for a piece of food.
A simple way to integrate reading, friendly competition, and nutrition information!
We even do this as a RELAY. Ideal with smaller teams of approx. four. Teams are across from
each other (either baseline or sideline) and run to the middle to quiz each other on the cards.
Same principles apply for correct/incorrect answers. You can lay the cards next to a fit spot with
exercise choice so they know what to do and then you don’t have to get out cones/fitdeck cards
for the relay version. Could add various locomotor movements or scooters as a way to move to
the middle “challenge” area.
New Idea: Integrate sports skill. Shoot a basket and then go to the middle to do a nutrition card.
Have a team rotation within the skill building time. Especially helpful with larger classes so all
kids are busy all the time!
Contact: [email protected]
Session Handouts: www.mygymshorts.schoolspecialty.com
NASPE National Middle School Physical Education Teacher of the Year
Jessica Shawley, Moscow Middle School in Moscow, Idaho
Variation #2: FitDeck Food Banking for My Plate Nutrition
EQUIPMENT: 1-2 or more decks of FitDeck cards, 6 to 8 Hulahoops, Collection of Food
Group Cards (from Sportime MyPlate Healthy Helpings Game, or Dairy Council cards).
SKILLS: Overall Fitness, Cooperative Team Challenge,
CONCEPTS: Fitness theme for the day AND Nutrition. My Plate.
SETTING: Create 6 to 8 teams, one per hulahoop. Setup like diagram below.
Food Bank: Food Cards
Fit Deck
Card Zone
Teams on THIS half of the court should all wear same
color jerseys and MUST go to the food bank box on
opposite court. Vice versa for other side. More moving!
Layout several piles of FitDeck
cards at cones or on top of spots.
To play:
*Allow 1-2 people max from each team in the Fit Deck Zone at any one time so it doesn’t get to
crowded. If you allow one at a time, then the remaining students at the hulahoop can be jump
roping (work on various jump skill challenges).
*Students go to fitness zone and pick up a FitDeck card, they complete 10 repetitions of the card.
They take the card to the food bank area and exchange it for one food group card and then take
that food card to their hulahoop. Process repeats. Teams build plates of different variations (most
balanced, build a breakfast/lunch/dinner, etc.), get one food from each area, etc.
*Replenish the FitDeck cards as they run low by returning them from the Food Banking Zone.
Variations:
*If a team has TOO much of one food group they can reverse the process: Return a food card to
the food banking zone, then pick up one fit deck card and take it back to the center where they
must complete 10 repetitions in order to complete the process of returning a card.
*Instead of food cards, have letters of the alphabet. Students take them back to hoop. After “xamount” of time, they then work together to spell as many foods as they can in a certain food
group. Can write down on white board. Winner is team with most foods listed.
This is a nice activity so you can see all of the students exercising in the middle at one time.
Contact: [email protected]
Session Handouts: www.mygymshorts.schoolspecialty.com