CHAPTER 14: TECHNOLOGY IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND HEALTH EDUCATION

By: Dylan Ford & Aron Neal

YOUTUBE VIDEO

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APPS RELATED TO HEALTH AND P.E.

iTriage This app allows you to search symptoms, learn about potential

causes, and directs you to the closest and appropriate doctor or treatment facility for you.

Sports Tracker This app will track and analyze your different performances. It

also stores all of your training data, keeps track of total calories burned, uses maps, times, and is a distance calculator.

SUPPORTING IMPROVED PHYSICAL FITNESS

Some technology that is being integrated into physical activities in classrooms are:

Accelerometers- A device that is used for the measuring rate of acceleration.

Pedometers- A device that counts the number of steps one takes.

Spirometers- A device that is used to measure long volume.

SUPPORTING IMPROVED PHYSICAL FITNESS (CONT.)

Blood pressure devices- A device used to monitor blood pressure.

Body Composition Analyzers- A device used to determine the percentage of body fat.

Heart Rate Monitor- A device used to measure one’s current heart rate.

EXERGAMING

Exergaming- video games that provide physical activity or exercises through interactive play.

As it does not provide as much activity or effort as a true sport, it does help provoke children interest in staying active.

Some examples of exergaming are: Nintendo Wii

Dance Dance Revolution

Xbox Kinect

NUTRITIONAL ANALYSIS PROGRAMS

The Nutritional Analysis Program is a software that analyzes calorie intake and helps to monitor portions of the required food groups. It can calculate and graph individual nutrition and fitness goals.

ALTERNATES TO THE TEXTBOOK

Health- related sites are alternates to textbooks.

They can be accessed at any time on a multitude of devices such as computers, phones, tablets, iPads, and more.

Its fast and easy and you get the most updated information that is out there.

KIDS HEALTH (387)

There are three different sections to the site: Parents site, educators site, kids site, and teen site

Each site has it’s own specific information and material to meet the needs of the designated group.

Gives advice, answers to commonly asked questions, health information, and much more.

KIDS HEALTH PICTURE

VODCASTING

Vodcasting is a term for video podcasting.

Simple videos posted on a course sire or other website, such as YouTube, to help get visual physical education information out.

LIST OF WEBSITES

http://www.kidshealth.org This website allows parents, children, teens, and professionals find answers to commonly asked health questions.

http://www.exploration.com/sport/index.html This website addresses the specific science that is involved with each individual sport.

http://www.pesoftware.com/teachers/new.html This website provides the latest information on how to provide technology in physical education classes.

http://www.healthteachers.com This website provides roughly 300 lessons for K-12 Health and P.E. teachers that meet the National Health Education Standards.