• 1. Aerobic fitness promotes wellness and a healthy cardio-respiratory system which is essential to participation in activities in daily life.
    2. Aerobic fitness has many benefits.
    3. Unsafe practices can lead to injury and discontinued exercise.
    4. Aerobic fitness requires continuous moderate to vigorous physical activity.
    5. Local and environmental factors impact an individual's aerobic fitness.
    6. Research, medical advances, technology, and government policies/regulations influence the prevention and control of health problems.
     
    Key Learner Objectives:
    1. Aerobic fitness promotes wellness and a healthy cardio-respiratory system which is essential to participation in activities in daily life.
    Understand and achieve health related benefits from in class training.Appreciate the benefits of a healthy and active lifestyle.
    2. Aerobic fitness has many benefits.
    Understand and appreciate the lifetime fitness and health benefits of swimming and recreational water activities.Identify the various activities that you can do to improve fitness levels while in the water.Develop all components of fitness through use of various equipment and aquatic fitness activities.
    3. Unsafe practices can lead to injury and discontinued exercise.
    Understand the best and safest practices in and around the pool.Identify the Emergency Action Plan while in the pool area.
    4. Aerobic fitness requires continuous moderate to vigorous physical activity.  Evaluate fitness levels doing a variety of workouts using both working and resting strokes.Participate in a variety of aquatic fitness aerobic workouts.Practice and demonstrate proper technique to improve basic swimming strokes, front crawl, back crawl, breaststroke, elementary backstroke, and sidestroke.
    5. Local and environmental factors impact an individual’s aerobic fitness.  Evaluate environmental factors that influence our aerobic fitness choices.
    6. Research, medical advances, technology, and government policies/regulations influence the prevention and control of health problems.  Analyze current research, trends, and policies that might impact their health and fitness.

    Content/Resources:
    Activities:
    Various timed swims
    Stroke Development
    Water Aerobics
    Water Polo
    Aqua Jogger
    Treading Water
    Materials:
    Kickboards
    Pull Buoys
    Fins
    Medicine Balls
    Resistance Paddles
    Aqua Jogger
    Water polo balls and goals
    Additional Vocabulary:
    Cirlce Swimming
    Principles of Training
    Target Heart Rate Zone

    Textbook/Reading:
    American Red CrossTotal ImmersionWebsites:
    www.americanredcross.org 
     
    Assessments:
Last Modified on October 23, 2013