Analyze the components of a plan to improve physical fitness.
Definition
Analysis should include components such as
- assessing levels of physical fitness
- setting goals for physical fitness
- identifying physical fitness strategies, such as
- starting the day with a healthy breakfast
- engaging in regular physical activity
- maintaining good nutrition
- avoiding use of harmful substances
- getting enough sleep
- explaining the positive impact of regular physical activity on the body and mind
- choosing appropriate types and levels of physical activity for improving physical condition
- charting progress for selected periods of time
- identifying barriers to maintaining physical activity and other physical fitness strategies.
Process/Skill Questions
Thinking
- What criteria is used to evaluate physical fitness?
- What are the outcomes of good physical fitness? Of poor physical fitness?
- Why do people make excuses to avoid exercise as a strategy for physical fitness?
- What communication skills do we need to develop physical fitness strategies?
- What activities are appropriate for people who wish to improve their physical fitness?
- What role can technology play in maintaining or improving physical fitness?
Leadership
- What leadership abilities help us to set and implement goals for physical fitness?
- Is there a relationship between leadership and physical fitness? Why, or why not?
- What can we do to motivate ourselves or others to implement strategies for physical fitness?
- What information and resources do we need to implement strategies for physical fitness?
- What steps should we take to begin implementing strategies for physical fitness?
- What management techniques are essential to implementing strategies for physical fitness?
Related Standards of Learning
English
9.5
The student will read and analyze a variety of nonfiction texts.
- Apply knowledge of text features and organizational patterns to understand, analyze, and gain meaning from texts.
- Make inferences and draw conclusions based on explicit and implied information using evidence from text as support.
- Analyze the author’s qualifications, viewpoint, and impact.
- Recognize an author’s intended purpose for writing and identify the main idea.
- Summarize, paraphrase, and synthesize ideas, while maintaining meaning and a logical sequence of events, within and between texts.
- Identify characteristics of expository, technical, and persuasive texts.
- Identify a position/argument to be confirmed, disproved, or modified.
- Evaluate clarity and accuracy of information.
- Analyze, organize, and synthesize information in order to solve problems, answer questions, complete a task, or create a product.
- Differentiate between fact and opinion and evaluate their impact.
- Analyze ideas within and between selections providing textual evidence.
- Use the reading strategies to monitor comprehension throughout the reading process.
10.5
The student will read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate nonfiction texts.
- Analyze text features and organizational patterns to evaluate the meaning of texts.
- Recognize an author’s intended audience and purpose for writing.
- Skim materials to develop an overview and locate information.
- Compare and contrast informational texts for intent and content.
- Interpret and use data and information in maps, charts, graphs, timelines, tables, and diagrams.
- Draw conclusions and make inferences on explicit and implied information using textual support as evidence.
- Analyze and synthesize information in order to solve problems, answer questions, and generate new knowledge.
- Analyze ideas within and between selections providing textual evidence.
- Summarize, paraphrase, and synthesize ideas, while maintaining meaning and a logical sequence of events, within and between texts.
- Use reading strategies throughout the reading process to monitor comprehension.
11.5
The student will read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate a variety of nonfiction texts including employment documents and technical writing.
- Apply information from texts to clarify understanding of concepts.
- Read and correctly interpret an application for employment, workplace documents, or an application for college admission.
- Analyze technical writing for clarity.
- Paraphrase and synthesize ideas within and between texts.
- Draw conclusions and make inferences on explicit and implied information using textual support.
- Analyze multiple texts addressing the same topic to determine how authors reach similar or different conclusions.
- Analyze false premises, claims, counterclaims, and other evidence in persuasive writing.
- Recognize and analyze use of ambiguity, contradiction, paradox, irony, sarcasm, overstatement, and understatement in text.
- Generate and respond logically to literal, inferential, evaluative, synthesizing, and critical thinking questions about the text(s).
12.5
The student will read, interpret, analyze, and evaluate a variety of nonfiction texts.
- Use critical thinking to generate and respond logically to literal, inferential, and evaluative questions about the text(s).
- Identify and synthesize resources to make decisions, complete tasks, and solve specific problems.
- Analyze multiple texts addressing the same topic to determine how authors reach similar or different conclusions.
- Recognize and analyze use of ambiguity, contradiction, paradox, irony, overstatement, and understatement in text.
- Analyze false premises claims, counterclaims, and other evidence in persuasive writing.
Other Related Standards
FCCLA National Programs
Families First: Balancing Family and Career
Families First: Families Today
Families First: Meet the Challenge
Families First: Parent Practice
Families First: You-Me-Us
Power of One: A Better You
Power of One: Family Ties
Student Body: The Fit You
Student Body: The Healthy You
Student Body: The Real You
Student Body: The Resilient You
FCCLA: STAR Events (2019)
Event Management
Interpersonal Communications
National Programs in Action
Nutrition and Wellness
Professional Presentation
Public Policy Advocate
Sports Nutrition
National Standards for Family and Consumer Sciences Education
14.2.1
Evaluate the effect of nutrition on health, wellness and performance.