Physical Education Fitness and Activity Plan
(Wilgus)

Task: Create a Personal Fitness Plan based on your FitnessGram Test results.

This website will help you with
   
1. finding information 2. organizing the information, and 3. citing your sources.
A VERY brief reminder about what your written fitness and activity plan should include:
(Please refer to your handout to be sure you cover all the required details of this plan...)
  • 1 paragraph about each of the 5 fitness components.
  • detailed descriptions o f your chosen warm-up/stretches before exercising.
  • detailed description of your cool-down.
  • detailed description of your work out each day including cardio and weight training.
  • demonstration of the principles of training: overload, progression and specificity.
  • 1 paragraph on how you would change your fitness plan based on aging.
    (what might change if you're 40!)

Information sources:

1. Your Fitness For Life class textbook.

2. Print resources in the Library. Look for the cart in the library and/or search on LIBNET.

Here are some examples of books. Notice the call number 613.7.

613.7 Fit
Fitness and Exercise Sourcebook

 613.7 Mic
The Exercise Book		 613.7 Jon
Total Fitness
796.51 Com
The Complete Book of Walking		 613.71 Bui
Building Endurance		 797.2 Wie
Total Swimming
3. Online resources: Databases & Worldwide websites

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Databases:

Encyclopedias

World Book Online Encyclopedia
Select World Book Online under "Encyclopedias" on homepage.
A search on EXERCISE will take you to an article that covers many of the topics in your project.
Scroll down for the hyperlinked table of contents to the article.
Notice options for printing, e-mailing, and citing the article.

Wikipedia
An online, dynamic, hyperlinked encyclopedia.

Ebsco Databases
EbscoHost --> High School Search --> Check only "Health Source - Consumer Edition"

Example search: MUSCLE STRENGTH AND EXERCISES
Search results are grouped as MAGAZINES and REFERENCE BOOKS.
Select REFERENCE BOOKS, scan the summaries, select HTML Full Text.
Select MAGAZINES, Sort by RELEVANCE, scan the summaries, select HTML Full Text.
Sign on to My EbscoHost lets you save to EBSCO's server with the "Add to Folder" option.
Print, e-mail, or save the article.

World Wide Websites

Searching the Net
The CHS Library's guide to the web, with links to Clusty, Advanced Google, and Google Subject Directories
Example Clusty search: "STRETCH AND CHEST AND FITNESS"
Example Advanced Google search: All: FITNESS Exact Phrase: UPPER BODY At Least One Word: STRETCH STRETCHES
Selected Websites for your Personal Fitness Plan:
Bodies in Motion/Minds at Rest
Follow the "Diet and Exercise" link to "Focused Exercises" for exercises by body part.
"Basics" leads to an explanation of warming up and cooling down.
Fitness Fundamentals
Presents the five "basics" of health-related fitness, the principles of training, and workout guidelines.
Warm-up Stretches and Cool-down Stretches

Methods for Organizing your Research:

Microsoft Word or Clarisworks

You can use word processing documents to save your notes and the resources you find online.
Refer to the front of the library handout.

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Citing your Sources:

Keeping track of your sources:

As you work, copy the citation information of each source that you use.
Citation information for online resources include:

the URL
name of author (if there is an author)
title of article or webpage
organization sponsoring the page
database name
date you found the information

Using Citation Maker

This online software does the work of putting together a Works Cited (bibliography) list for you. No need to worry about where to underline or put quotations!

1. Get to the Citation Maker from the link above or from the Library Homepage.
2. Click on “Citation Maker,” “OSLIS Secondary Citation Maker” and “Citation Maker” again.
3. Select “Print,” “Electronic,” “World Wide Web,” or “Interview.” See the table below for help.
4. Enter the citation information in the boxes. (If an article or website lists no author, leave it blank.)
5. Select “Save Citation.”
6. Continue with other citations and select “Show My Citations” when finished.
7. Copy and paste the formatted citations into a word-processing document.
8. Alphabetize the list of citations.
Type of Resource
Option to use on Citation Maker
Print Resources (Books) Select the option under “Print” that fits your book.
Online Reference Article
(InfoTrac Reference)
 Select the option World Wide Web: Encyclopedia Article on the Web
Online Magazine Article
(InfoTrac or EBSCO)
Select the option Magazine Article on the Web.
Website Select the option World Wide Web: Professional or Organizational Web Page or
World Wide Web: Personal Web Page



Some thoughts about Plagiarism...

Plagiarism is copying another's work and turning it in as your own. It is unethical.

Plagiarism is tempting in this day and age of cut and paste resources, but it is unwise.

  • Plagiarism is easy to detect. A teacher can type a suspicious phrase from a student's paper into Google, and the original source will usually come up.
  • Plagiarism cheats yourself. You don't get the opportunity to develop your own writing style and to make you own voice heard.


Teachers are much more interested in what YOU have to say!

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Contact Sam Arnold and Julie Vignoul with questions or comments.
3/13/05