Physical Education 4th grade

Standard 1: students will value physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self expression, and/or social interaction

Objective 1: indicate how physical activity provides an opportunity for enjoyment and self-expression.

b: choose activities that can be enjoyed alone and activities that include others.

I plan to do my virtual tour on this subject because i love sports, i have been involved in them my whole life, and i believe that all children should have a chance to learn about different sports. This way they can become more involved in physical activity, even if it is just for fun and not competitive. They should try them, and enjoy playing different kinds of sports. The only way some children that dont exercise will become encouraged is by possibly watching videos and looking at pictures, and just learning about the different sports that each country is great at! They may learn about this and think "hey i want to try this!" Watching these media items and looking at pictures will also help explain what is going on in the sport and it will be very neat to watch! It also gives them background knowledge about sports that they may never have the chance to learn about. Getting physically active is crucial to good health, and that is why i picked this topic for my virtual tour!

Location	Activity Description	Google Earth Content
1.Canada Calgary	Hockey: what do you think the objective of the game is by watching the video? what kind of equipment do you notice them wearing? describe some.	-you tube calgary flames hockey game: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRFLUBgvzc -Picture of hockey players: http://www2.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/calgary+flames+v+Dallas+stars+KOfWkEuQmCYI.jpg
2.Brazil	Soccer: Learn techniques on how to kick a soccer ball, and try passing a ball with a partner in your class.	Go to the website: http://www.kidsfirstsoccer.com/ and watch the videos on th very left hand side of the website. These will show you some techniques used in soccer that you can try with your partner!
3.USA	Gymnastics: Watch a "you tube" video on a gymnastics routine. Design a competition suit that you would like to wear for your country. and things you liked about the videos.	- you tube of mens gymnastics routine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h45IJnQXKPg - You Tube video of a womens floor routine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLVNrQEOPgT
4.China	Diving: Watch a chinese athlete dive on "you tube." Explain what you think makes a good dive, and what youn liked about it	- Youtube video of a chinese girl diving in the 2008 olympics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm4nHlrOo1w

i believe one of the hardest things about implimenting a made video into elementary classrooms, is making it legal to show. Just making sure that all the things you put in this video have been cited correctly, or you have not used too much of a song, poem, pictures, etc... Also i think it could be time consuming to the planning for a class, but a good question would be is, is it good enough to show in the lesson and the time was well spent on it? or is it just taking up teaching time and planning time.

I learned last week that TK is very important to teachers. To start we need to get content knowledge and Pedagogy knowledge and together those make Particular content knowledge. From here we can learn about TK: technology knowledge. It is important for teachers to learn about this and gain more information about different technolgy. This will in turn enrich teachers lesson plans and make them more interesting and fun. They will help them teach lessons as well.

In this story board, i have chosen to do it on "living a healthy lifestyle."In this story board we introduce how it is important to live a healthy life, and we give three different areas of physical activity to live help people on their way to being active! We start off with talking about stretching. We show on each page a different stretch and how to do it, also what it stretches. Some are: pike, splits, bridge, ankles, and wrists. We then talk about strength and give different strength exercises and how to do them. Lastly we show endurance activities and different sports that could be very fun to play! I believe this digital story will help teach this lesson to students because i can put whatever i choose into it and make it so it encourages students to be more active. Also the story board makes it more fun for students in learning, it is something new. Plus i did it on the athletes at at BYU, so maybe they saw a role model or someone they look up to. This can also encourage them to be more physically active! This representation of the content will help the students learn the information better because there is a picture demonstrating what the words are saying. So even if they are non-english language learners, they will still be able to understand! This will just enforce what the movie is saying and help all students!

Ibelieve this was the most challenging assignment i have ever done. I am not very good with computers, but by the time i got to the last web page, where we got to pick anything we wanted it was a lot easier! I believe learning how to add links and brining in videos and pictures were so useful. i never really knew how to do that. They never turned out, probably because i never pressed the source button and did it properly. Even though this was hard, i believe all of it was useful because it will all come handy when i start teaching and have to make my own website and planning for everyone to see.

technology experience

Starting in elementary school we had computer class, where we learned how to type, and access safe websites. We had also started how to do power point. Throughout my school years we learned how to research, how to use word to write our papers, etc.. I had bought my first laptop in grade eleven, where i learned how to use many different programs and sites. While i am at BYU i have made my first blog and google account, which w had done in this class. Other than the computer, i have and ipod, cell phone, and many other technology items.