Kid-Fit+Challenge+-+Task

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**Task Outline**

Our task is expected to run over a total of 10 days (lessons). In the first two initial lessons, the teacher is to talk about importance of exercise and view The Learning Federation interactive resource, Take a Deep Breath, which discusses the role of the circulatory and respiratory systems when you exercise. The teacher can also show other videos (as recommended on the teacher page) about the benefits of exercise and some example exercise routines.

Children will be divided in to groups of 3-4 and asked to decide on a name for their group, which the teacher will use to set up groups blogs. Although it is a group blog, all members will be required to make individual entries following their own progress. Edublogs works well to accommodate this as it has a function that allows the teacher to manage multiple blogs and nominate access to various students without the need for individual emails. Students will be given a user name and password (generated by the teacher) and shown how to access and use their blog for this task (see example blog).

Groups will need to decide on a 30 minute daily exercise routine to be completed over the following 6 days (les sons). They will need to explain any goals and targets they hope to meet, for example: time records, repetitions, distances etc, and make note of this in their blogs along with the details of their routine.

(B4 Tea, 2012)

These routines will be carried out in the first 30 minute of each 60 minute lesson, with students recording any relevant data (times/targets met). The additional 15-30 minutes will be spent recording a blog entry detailing their progress, thoughts and any collected data from their sessions.

After the 6 sessions have been completed, the groups will use the remaining 2 lessons to each create a 3-5 minute video about their experience including:
 * Thoughts on the importance of daily physical activity
 * Interesting experiences with their routines (Modifications, Aims, Targets etc.)
 * Any changes they might make in the future to improve

Students will then upload videos to TeacherTube and embed in their group blogs. These can then be viewed and discussed by the class.

__**References **__

B4 Tea. (2012). Fun Exercises for Kids at Home: Tips and Ideas, Retrieved May 04, 2012 @http://b4tea.com/fun/tips-trick/fun-exercises-for-kids-at-home-tips-and-ideas/