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Subject: Backsaver Sit-and-Reach |
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1. Topic-
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Flexibility
FITNESSGRAM Backsaver Sit-and-Reach |
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2. Content-
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Flexibility: maintaining adequate joint flexibility is important
to functional health
Backsaver Sit-and-Reach: FITNESSGRAM Assessment Test |
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Objectives-
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1. Students will be able to identify flexibility as the range of
motion of a joint.
2. Students will be able to provide three ways to improve flexibility
characterized through performing three different stretches of their
choice.
3. Students will be able to the perform the FITNESSGRAM Backsaver
Sit-and-Reach successfully characterized by siting with a straight
leg reaching forward to the point of slight discomfort.
4. Students will be able to reach to a specified distance on the right
and left sides of the body characterized by healthy fitness zones
assessed in the rubric. |
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Materials and Aids-
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Sit and Reach Box
Cones
Pencils
Worksheets
Music and Player
Mat(s) |
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Procedures/Methods-
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A. Introduction-
1. Introduce educators and explain the sit-and-reach test.
2. Provide information on the activities and the important cues to
successfully participate.
3. Hand out the worksheets in the beginning of class. |
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B. Development-
1. Have the two activities continuously playing while taking two
students at a time to perform the sit-and-reach test.
2. The first activity will include the stretching worksheet provided
to the students. All the students will participate in this activity
for 3 minutes.
3. The second activity will be for the remaining time of the period
and will include alternating yoga exercise stations. The last station
will include the sit-and-reach box. |
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D. Independent Practice-
1. The students will bring the worksheets home and continue practicing
flexibility.
2. The students will be circling the stretches they participate in
daily during the first activity. |
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Closure-
1. Place students in a U-shaped formation.
2. What types of stretches did you like best today?
3. What is good about being flexible?
4. What other activities can incorporate the use of flexibility?
5. Did everyone enjoy class today? |
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7. Evaluation-
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1. Ask students how they could use yoga to help maintain health-related
fitness.
2. Ask students to explain how yoga can help increase flexibility.
3. Have students tell you how many days per week they perform flexibility
activities.
4. Have students name a flexibility activity that they could do every
day.
5. Collect the homework sheet and lead a class discussion on the activities
circled and added.
6. Have students discuss their favorite flexibility activity with
the class. |
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