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  • Course Information

    Participation Skills & Techniques Q1

    Participation Skills and Techniques is designed to help students learn the techniques and skills necessary to participate effectively in a variety of games and activities. Students will learn to participate in activities designed to improve balance, flexibility, strength, endurance and teamwork. The goal of this class is to provide knowledge, resources and activities designed to promote personal responsibility in developing a healthy lifestyle through combining fitness and cardio. Students will be empowered to make choices, meet challenges and develop positive behaviors in fitness, wellness and movement activity for a lifetime. Emphasis is placed on students analyzing skills for effective movement.


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    • Participation Skills & Techniques Q1 Moodle Course File

  • Topic 1

    Introduction/Course Navigation


    • Welcome

    • "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."~Lao Tsu
    • Introduction
    • INTRODUCTION: Page
    • WATCH: Course Navigation Page
    • READ: Classroom Success Page
    • COMPLETE: Target Heart Rate Calculator URL

    • Discussion Forum
    • WATCH: Discussion Forum Explanation Page

    • Quiz

  • Topic 2

    Understanding Movement

    • Stretch

    • The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all. ~Pablo Casals
    • INTRODUCTION Page
    • WATCH: Did You Know? Page

    • Resources

    • 2.1 Understanding Movement

    • READ: Muscles in Action URL


    • 2.2  Joints & Types of Movement

    • VIEW/READ: All About Joints URL
    • VIEW: Joint Types Page
    • VIEW: Synovial Joints Page
    • READ: Types of Movement URL
    • REVIEW: Joint Study Guide URL


    • 2.3 Assignment: Skills Form


    • Discussion Forum

    • Quiz

  • Topic 3

    Anatomy & Physiology Basics: Part 1


    • LATERAL SAKONA
    • "Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it." ~Plato
    • INTRODUCTION: Page
    • WATCH: SCREENCAST Page

    • Resources
    • READ: Body Systems URL
    • READ/VIEW: Body Systems URL

    • 3.1 Circulatory System/Respiratory System
    • READ/VIEW: Circulatory System URL
    • READ/VIEW: The Respiratory System URL

    • 3.2 Muscular System
    • READ/VIEW: Muscles (Front View) URL
    • READ/VIEW: Muscles (Back View) URL
    • VIEW: Muscles (Side View) URL

    • 3.3 Skeletal System
    • WATCH: The Skeletal System Page
    • VIEW: Skeletal System (Side View) URL
    • VIEW: Skull URL


    • 3.4 Assignment: Skills Form


    • Discussion Forum

    • Quiz

  • Topic 4

    Anatomy & Physiology Basics: Part 2


    • Autonomic nervous system
    • "Sometimes your body is smarter than you are." ~Unknown
    • INTRODUCTION: Page
    • WATCH: SCREENCAST Page

    • Resources

    • 4.1 Brain & Nervous System
    • READ/VIEW: Brain Lobes URL
    • READ/VIEW: Brain (Side View) URL
    • READ/VIEW: Tour of Brain URL
    • READ/VIEW: The Nervous System (Basic) URL
    • READ/VIEW: Nervous System (Groups of Nerves) URL

    • 4.2 Digestive System
    • READ/VIEW: The Digestive System URL

    • 4.3 Endocrine & Immune System
    • READ/VIEW: The Endocrine System URL


    • 4.4 Assignment: Skills Form


    • Discussion Forum

    • Quiz

  • Topic 5

    Warm Up-Cool Down

    • Warm Up
    • "If you spend too much time warming up, you'll miss the race. If you don't warm up at all, you may not finish the race." ~Grand Heidrich
    • INTRODUCTION: Page
    • WATCH: SCREENCAST Page

    • Resources

    • 5.1 Warm Up & Cool Down Stretching
    • WATCH: 23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our Health? Page
    • READ: The Importance of Warming Up URL
    • READ: Warm Up Exercises URL
    • READ: Warm Up/Cool Down URL
    • SAMPLE/RESOURCE: My Fitness Plan- Getting Started URL

    • 5.2 Dynamic & Static Stretching
    • READ: Dynamic Warm Up URL
    • READ: Examples of Dynamic Warm Up URL

    • 5.4 Assignment: Skills Form


    • 5.3 Assignment: Fitness Plan


    • Discussion Forum


    • Quiz

  • Topic 6

    Heart Rate, VO2 Max & Body Composition

    • B0007395 Heart and exercise

    • "Any form of exercise that raises your heart rate and leaves you slightly breathless, if done on a regular basis, is extremely beneficial." ~Mark Richardson
    • INTRODUCTION: Page
    • WATCH: SCREENCAST Page

    • Resources

    • 6.1 Heart Rate & VO2 Max
    • READ: Heart Rate File
    • WATCH: Heart Rate Page
    • READ: VO2 Max URL
    • VIEW/COMPLETE: Target Heart Rate Calculator URL


    • 6.2 Assignment: Skills Form


    • Discussion Forum

    • Quiz

  • Topic 7

    Cardiovascular Endurance

    • running man

    • "If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end." ~Julius Erving
    • INTRODUCTION: Page
    • WATCH: SCREENCAST Page

    • Resources

    • 7.1 Cardiorespiratory Endurance
    • READ: FITT Factors of CR Endurance Page


    • 7.2 Assignment: Skills Form


    • Discussion Forum

    • Quiz

  • Topic 8

    Muscular Strength & Endurance

    • weight lift

    • “Problems are to the mind what exercise is to muscles, they toughen and make strong.” ~Norman Vincent Peale
    • INTRODUCTION: Page
    • WATCH: SCREENCAST Page

    • Resources

    • 8.1 Muscular Strength & Endurance
    • WATCH: Muscular Strength & Endurance URL


    • 8.2 Assignment: Skills Form


    • Discussion Forum

    • Quiz

  • Topic 9

    Injury Prevention & Treatment

    • rest here


    •
      Prepare and prevent, don't repair and repent.  ~Author Unknown

    • Resources
    • INTRODUCTION: Page


    • 9.1 Injury Prevention

    • WATCH: Injury Prevention Page
    • READ: R.I.C.E. (Rest, Ice, Compression, & Elevation) URL
    • READ: Injury Prevention URL


    • 9.2 Common Athletic Injuries & Treatments

    • WATCH: Concussions & Treatment URL
    • WATCH: Ankle Sprains & Treatments URL
    • WATCH: Low Back Pain & Treatment URL

    • 9.1 Power


    • 9.4 Assignment: Skills Form


    • Discussion Forum

    • Quiz

  • Topic 10

    Midterm


    • End