Post #13

List at least three technologies you could use in the physical education classroom and then explain how you would use them.

Heart rate monitors

http://www.rei.com/c/heart-rate-monitors

Pedometers

http://www.pedometersusa.com/?gclid=CjwKEAiA7ZajBRCpur2xi47n1zkSJADqV2WlF9llIvnPDMbLsSn4HeZMnYOomD8SjtKusq1bSySRshoCbuzw_wcB

Blood pressure monitor

http://www.heartratemonitorsusa.com/bloodpressurebest.html?gclid=CjwKEAiA7ZajBRCpur2xi47n1zkSJADqV2WlVNDeqDPKNWGciW8BvLydEx6hyzify-7CGOisWRjdRhoCuv_w_wcB

For my blog post this week I chose three technologies I think would be very beneficial for students who take P.E. Every year students participate in the Physical Fitness Assessment to see where they fall in being physically fit. This is essentially how I got my idea for this post. I would like to create an assessment that students would use to track their blood pressure, heart rate, and weight. Students would be assigned a numbered pedometer that they would have to keep up with for the entire assessment period. Turning the pedometer back in would benefit their grade and if they do not, they would lose a significant amount of points. The reason for this is funding. I need to reuse the pedometers over the years. The American Heart Association has a program called Heart360 and I have created my own account to demonstrate how it works. Here is the link Heart360: Cortnee Meyers. Students will create an account and will make it view able for me to check on their progress. Twice a year, we will do a two week assessment. Every day, students will come in and check their blood pressure. Once they do, they will record it in the iPad’s we have available on the Heart360 program. Hopefully, we will have at least five to work with. When students input their blood pressure, heart rate and weight, it will show if their health is bad, fair, good, or excellent based on weight and age. We will have a scale for students to measure their weight. Every day for these two weeks, two tables will be set up. The first table will have five blood pressure monitors. The second table will have iPads for recording information. Once every one has done this, we will do other activities that the American Heart Association suggests for establishing a healthy heart. Here is a list of activities: developing jump rope skills, basketball skills, hula hooping, and jogging.