HEE 302 Short Answer questions Ch8-14

What does AHSP stand for and what does it promote?

Active and Healthy School Program improves student health and wellness through various strategies changing the environment so students are naturally encouraged to increase activity and make healthier choices.

Guideline 1 of the NASPE activity guidelines for elementary school children recommendations suggest how many minutes per day and what type of activity?

Children should accumulate at least 60 minutes and up to several hours of age appropriate physical activity on all or most days of the week. Moderate and vigorous activity that is primary intermittent.

Identify and define the two types of physical fitness.

Health related - moderate to vigorous activity. Skill related- requires training and exercising of high intensity

Define liability and the 4 points that are examined in deciding if a teacher is liable due to negligence

Liability is the responsibility to perform a duty to a particular group. The four areas are duty, breach of duty, Proximate cause and damages.

What should tachers know about performance recognition awards?

Motivate students to approve their fitness award systems that focus on improvement awards based on achievements and challenging goals.

When planning physical education facilities it is important to keep in mind what key components?

Plan for maximum projected enrollment, if outdoors (field space, track, apparatus areas, courts, jogging trails), equipment for upper and lower body development, balance and sports skills, equipment and supplies (mats for safety inside.)

Two types of outcomes are called process and product. Define and explain both of these terms.

Process implies focusing on the performance of movement patterns and skills with emphasis on correct techniques. In contrasts, product assessment focuses on the outcome of the skill performance.

Explain why physical education offers an outstanding setting for integration of academic concepts with minimal impact on the integrity of the physical education curriculum.

Simple changes and additions in instructions can integrate new and different areas in curriculum, you can teach a variety of academic concepts while maintaining physical fitness outcomes, you can camouflage specific content into loco motor games

Why has fitness testing failed to solve the problem of low fitness levels?

Tests don't allow students to practice and work hard to do well they are just expected to do well out of shape kids won't perform well and will be discouraged to participate in physical activity.

What is the purpose of evaluation?

The purpose of evaluation is to determine whether progress is being mad toward specified objectives.