Introduction

As technology increases in America, so to does the obesity rate in our students. Due to video games, television and computers, children are choosing to stay inside rather than be outside participating in physical activity. There used to be a day when after school if you were driving through neighborhoods, you would find children all over the streets and in the yards running around playing, running, and chasing. Unfortunately, now after school, most of the streets and yards are empty, and the Internet, television and video game worlds our filled with our students. While we are only speculating that technology is the cause of our obesity epidemic, we can all agree that a cure is needed. As Physical Educators, our answer is an obvious one; children need to become more active. There is no question that physical activity increases the health of people and helps them to become stronger, healthier and fitter. One of the biggest things when discussing physical activity is talking about goals. While you can be physically active playing sports, you can also be physically active by doing yard work, walking around the neighborhood among many of other things.

Task

Your task for this activity is going to be researching the different muscles of the body. You will be assigned to a committee. In this committee, you will break the human body and its muscular system in three sections with each member of the committee in charge of one section of muscles. Afterwards, you will come together and report your findings. As a group you will come together and establishing your goals through this unit. Then you will develop a physical fitness plan to achieve your goal. You will be able to access the Internet and all of its resources to get all of the information that you need to create your fitness program. At the conclusion of this project, you will present your plan to your fellow students.

Process

Goals are very hard to accomplish and take hard work and dedication to reach them. Completing a goal is quite a feat and you should feel very good after you accomplish it. As a group you must decide what your overall team goal is. You will use the Internet to research your area of the body, and come together and develop a fitness plan to accomplish the goal you set. You will research the nutrition chart provided by the link below and establish a good diet for your group goal. A quality diet is just as important as exercising. Next, you will devise a fitness program covering five days a week. On this program, you will tell the exercise and provide a diagram of the muscles being worked. Here are some resources you will find useful and can use while performing your research:

Fitness Fundamentals - This website gives you an idea of what parts of the fitness components should be concentrated on as well as defining what these components are so that you learn more about them. http://www.hoptechno.com/book11.htm

Benefits of Physical Fitness - This website provides the benefits for physical activity as well as weight lifting. It is very thorough and easy to read. http://www.benefit-physical-fitness.com/

Peak Performance - This website shows flexibility exercises you can include in your fitness plan. http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/flexibility-exercises.htm

Food and Nutrition Information - This is the national Food and Nutrition Information website and provides all the information you need on developing a well planned diet. http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/

Weight Lifting Exercises - This website shows many different varieties of weight lifting programs that you can mix and match to make your own. http://www.bodybuildingforyou.com/bodybuilding-supplements-guides/weight-lifting-workout-guide-4.htm

BBC Science and Nature: Human Body - This website shows all of the muscles that you will be using while choosing your exercises for your fitness program. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/factfiles/muscle_anatomy.shtml

Theses are just a few of the websites that you may use to do your fitness plan and research on the human body. Your group will divide the muscles into three parts with each person doing research on one of the parts. 1) Arms and Shoulders 2) Back and Stomach 3) Legs

Rubric

	1	2	3
Evaluation of Research	Incomplete or incorrect research information	Research information of human body and its muscles is partially incorrect and unorganized	Research is thorough. Information is provided in an organized manner and is very easy to read and follow
Fitness Plan	Fitness plan is incomplete or information provided is inaccurate	Fitness plan is complete, yet contains errors or is not thorough	Fitness plan is thorough and in depth. Contains all the necessary information and is easy to follow and understand
Presentation	Not thorough, not informative and very unorganized	Contains the minimum information and is not clear. Information is delivered in a manner that is difficult to follow	Very informative and well organized. All the information is presented and presentation is very thorough.

Conclusion

By completing this assignment, you and your group will get a better understanding of the human body, nutrition, flexibility as well as muscular strength. You will be provided with the information necessary to create a physical fitness plan and diet and have the opportunity to implement that in your everyday life.