Information Processing

Information Processing

I will use information processing to teach the five components of fitness.

Each student will have a piece of paper on their desk folded in half long ways. I will explain to them that on one side of the folded paper I want them to write a paragraph about, "what fitness is." 

Attention:

Next I will have them bring a pen or pencil and follow me down to the gym. I will give them a worksheet entitled 5 components of Fitness. I will have 5 stations in the gym with the different components in each station.The stations will be:

• Cardiovascular Endurance
• Flexibility
• Muscle Strength
• Muscle Endurance
• Body Composition 

Rehearsal:
At each station they will demonstrate what each component is.

• Cardiovascular Endurance will be jumping jacks for 30 seconds.
• Flexibility will be sit and reach to, or past your toes.
• Muscle Strength will be triceps dips on the gym stage.
• Muscle Endurance will be 30 second wall sits.
• Body Composition there will be charts for students to figure out what their BMI is.

At the end of each station the student will fill out their worksheet and answer the question on each component. After all of the students have gone to each station they we will have a class discussion on each station, and why each of these components are important.

Encoding:
We will return to the classroom and I will have the students take the sheet of paper that they all ready wrote on at the beginning of class and have them write in the second column. In this column they will write what they think fitness is now after learning about the 5 components. I will tell them that they will be expected to write the 5 components on this side of the sheet.
At the beginning of the next class that I have with them their journal question will be to write what the 5 components of fitness are that they learned last time we were together. This gives them many opportunities to think and write the 5 components.