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Different Types of Exercise
Middle School
Standard 1
7.1.1 Demonstrate a movement sequence in a physical activity or game.
8.1.1 Combine and refine fundamental techniques in games and sports and work towards achieving
competence in increasingly complex physical activity contexts.
8.1.2 Create rhythmic movement patterns demonstrating an understanding of steady beat, tempo, and
phrasing of music to maintain and improve fitness.
Standard 2
7.2.2 Recognize the open person concept in team sport activities.
8.2.2 Analyze an athlete’s performance of a sport skill, using technology, and provide suggestions for
improving the performance.
Standard 4
7.4.2 Demonstrate the importance of all components of physical fitness in achieving a desired level of
health-enhancing physical fitness.
Standard 5
7.5.5 Adapt games to allow the participation of individuals of varying abilities.
8.5.5 Value others during physical activity.
Concepts
1. Fitness Evaluation – Assessment of individual fitness
2. Discuss different types of exercise and how these activities can be life-long healthy activities.
a. Cooperative Games – Character building, project adventures, small group cooperative
games, small group competitive games
b. Individual Games – Tumbling, track & field, juggling, cup stacking, skating, biking
c. Rhythmic Games – Dance: line, tap, advanced, social, and square dance
d. Enrichment – Games from other countries, folk dance festival, bocce ball
e. Fitness Activities – Aerobics, circuit training, cross-training
f. Net Games – Badminton, pickleball, volleyball, tennis
g. Goal Activities – Basketball, soccer, ultimate Frisbee, floor hockey, team handball
h. Target Activities – Bowling, golf, handball, racquetball, ring toss, four square
i. Striking – Kickball, softball, whiffle ball, tetherball
3. Consider the differences when participating in physical activity: Boy vs. girl, athlete vs. non-athlete,
young vs. old.
4. Understand how to develop life-long skills.
5. Explain how practice situations relate to game situations (ex. Soccer-what is the purpose of
spreading the field? How do you apply that to a game situation? Basketball- what are types of
defenses? What is a pick and roll?)
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6. Pick a concept for students to teach to other students. (ex. proper technique to throw a Frisbee at
various angles)
Movement Activities
1. Enrichment (ex. bocce ball, scooter games, games from other countries)
2. Goal Activities (ex. ultimate Frisbee, basketball, soccer)
3. Perform rhythmic routine (ex. line dance, social dance, folk dance)
Skill Focus
1. Discuss five fitness component levels.
2. Applying concepts and strategies to game play
3. Practice teaching skills to others (have students teach a skill to the class)
4. Put students in teams, have them develop a plan of what’s involved in forming a team sport which
includes a coach, manager, statistician, players, athletic trainers, strength trainers, fans, etc. and
have each team model format to the class.
Assessment
1. Working together as a team, students will develop a rubric for this activity and deliver to the class.
2. Participation of team members and role development of each
3. Fitness Log- Once a month students will record their eating and physical activity using tools on the
website
Thinking Critically
In a one page summary, write how you can use different types of exercise to help increase physical activity
in your family. For one week, engage in this activity with a family member or neighbor. Document what
you did and how it made everyone feel. Ask family members to share their feelings about physical activity.
Writing Assignment
1. After participating in an activity, you will model or teach mature motor skills and movement
patterns to another student.
2. While you were helping another student learn how to do a new movement or activity, how did it
make you feel mentally, emotionally, and physically? What did you learn from? What could you
have done differently?
Homework
You are to participate in physical activity with one family member and discuss how you felt and what they
thought.
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Vocabulary
1. Circuit training
2. Isotonic exercise
3. Isometric exercise
4. Isokinetic exercise
5. Interval training
6. Weight training
7. Strength training
8. Repetition
Knowledge Test
The shortest period of exercising you need to get good results is:
a. 5 minutes
b. 10 minutes
c. 20 minutes
d. One hour
Examples of skill related physical fitness include all of the following, EXCEPT:
a. Aerobic capacity
b. Balance
c. Reaction time
d. Coordination
A workout where someone moves through different exercise stations with short break between exercises is
called:
a. Circuit training
b. Isokinetic exercise
c. Power lifting
d. Interval training
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