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Differentiation in Action

How to include students on learning support, special ed, advanced athletes.

ENGAGE students in class by motivating all and showing them achievable steps
EDUCATE students by giving them knowledge, why/how to do an activity
EQUIP students by addressing their needs

If you can answer yes to all of these, you can EMPOWER all students - 100 different learners in your class

* Always, always select an easily modifiable activity to make easier/harder, slower/quicker, less complicated/more complicated

'We all face challenges in life. Do you see them as barriers or hurdles? Barriers hold you back, hurdles are made to jump over. We have the power to turn barriers into hurdles. The choice is yours,' 
Thomas Moran, 1999

Sample Fitness/Wellness Class

This class was aimed for mostly LS and MS but can be adapted for US too.

Whole School Ideas:
* Wellness Week
* Activity breaks in each class: Instant Recess
* Assembly dance & activity

Week 1: Moderate Intensity Activity
- Intensity measurements; RPE, Heart Rate, breathing
- Fill out physical activity journals
- Examples
- Amount and why
- Include whole family
- 5 fruit/veg per day - you are what you eat

Week 2: Vigorous Intensity Activity
- Differences between moderate and vigorous activity
- Examples
- Why the national goals are set - 60 minutes Mod, 7 minutes vigorous per day
- Nutrition

Week 3: FITT guidelines & Fitness Components
- Foods for strong bones and bodies
- Healthier choices

Week 4: Integration, energy balance and tying it all together
- SMART goals
- Fitnessgram
- Healthy foods help us

Schoolwide coordinated activity
- TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More
- Empower students to lead classmates
- Exercise Alphabet Game Warm up = Good idea for class warm ups

Cross Curricular:
Coloring worksheets for Activity Pyramid and Food groups - Lower school

Links to excellent PE resources

• Fuel up to Play 60 resources - a good 25 links here

http://school.fueluptoplay60.com/tools/physical-activity/at-school.php#

• A CDC publication on strategies to Improve the quality of Physical Education

http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/physicalactivity/pdf/quality_pe.pdf?source=govdelivery

• PE central lesson ideas. I've used many for lower school basketball with great success

http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/middlehigh/middlehighideas.asp

• Assessments in PE and how best to incorporate them

http://www.pecentral.org/assessment/assessmentresearch.html

• Standards for FitnessGram Healthy Zones (replacing Presidents Fitness Test)

http://www.cooperinstitute.org/pub/file.cfm?item_type=xm_file&id=656