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This document describes a physical education lesson plan that uses blogging as a tool for student reflection. Students will create a week-long fitness routine and then write daily blog posts reflecting on their experiences. They will address questions about struggles, feelings, favorite activities, and observations of fitness levels. The blog posts will be assessed for feedback. By writing blogs, students who are quiet can express themselves, and visual/auditory learners benefit from blog customization. Technology integration engages students and relates to their daily tech use, though the lesson could be done with paper journals. Internet safety considerations include choosing a secure blogging platform and limiting access to posts.

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Blog Lesson

This document describes a physical education lesson plan that uses blogging as a tool for student reflection. Students will create a week-long fitness routine and then write daily blog posts reflecting on their experiences. They will address questions about struggles, feelings, favorite activities, and observations of fitness levels. The blog posts will be assessed for feedback. By writing blogs, students who are quiet can express themselves, and visual/auditory learners benefit from blog customization. Technology integration engages students and relates to their daily tech use, though the lesson could be done with paper journals. Internet safety considerations include choosing a secure blogging platform and limiting access to posts.

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Classroom Blog and Website Creation Tools

Lesson Idea Name: My Fitness Adventure


Content Area: Physical Education
Grade Level(s): 9th-12th
Content Standard Addressed:
National Standard 1- The physically literate individual demonstrates competency in a variety of motor skills and
movement patterns.
Georgia Standard- PEBS.3 The physically educated student demonstrates knowledge and skills to help achieve
and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical activity and fitness.

Technology Standard Addressed:


Standard 6- Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using
the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.

Selected Technology Tool:


☒ Blog ☐ Twitter (Live TwitterChat) ☐ Other: Website Creation Tool (e.g., Wix, Weebly):

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable): https://edublogs.org/

Bloom’s Taxonomy Level(s):


☒ Remembering ☒ Understanding ☐ Applying ☐ Analyzing ☒ Evaluating ☒ Creating

Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level):


☐ Level 1: Awareness ☐ Level 2: Exploration ☐ Level 3: Infusion ☒ Level 4: Integration
☐ Level 5: Expansion ☐ Level 6: Refinement

Universal Design for Learning (UDL): This activity is good for students with multiple learning styles. By writing
a blog, it helps students who are usually quite during class discussions, express their thoughts behind a screen.
For visual learners, students can increase font sizes and add pictures to their blogs since it is customizable. For
auditory learners, students could use a text to talk feature that would read what they wrote out loud.

Lesson idea implementation: Prior to this lesson, students would come up with a week-long fitness routine
that best suits them. Each day while they do their fitness routine, students will reflect by writing a blog post
each day about their experience. Some questions include; What struggles did you face? How did you overcome
them? Describe how you felt after you completed the workout. Compare the beginning of your workout to the
end. Which activity was your favorite and why? What did you observe about your fitness level while
completing these workouts?
The students will be doing the fitness activities during class and will fill out their blog each day for homework.
The project will be presented after students have created a solid workout routine for themselves. This project
will be a total of five days that will include a total of five blog posts. Student learning will be assessed by
reviewing students blog posts and providing individual congruent feedback about their posts.
I can extend student learning by providing higher ordered thinking questions such as the ones stated above so
students can increase their learning level. By doing this, it requires students to think deeper than just
answering basic questions. It requires students to apply, analyze, and evaluate rather than just recall facts.
I will conclude the lesson by having students write a blog post comparing the different days and talk about
their overall experience. Students will then be asked to share their experiences with the class if they desire.
Feedback will be provided to students individually on each of their blog posts. During the fitness activities, I
can also walk around the room and encourage students.

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Classroom Blog and Website Creation Tools
Importance of technology: Since technology has become apart of every day life, it’s important to incorporate
it into classrooms to relate to students. By having students create blogs, it also allows them to decorate it and
organize the way that they like. This lesson could be done without technology by having students write their
journals on paper. However, having them do the blog posts is more meaningful and gets them more engaged
in their work.
Other types of technology I could use with this lesson is heart rate monitors. It can track how long students are
in the zone which would give them more to write about in their blog posts.
Internet Safety and Student Privacy: Some possible issues with an online blog is that it may be public, and
everyone has access to it. This may violate student internet safety and privacy. After analyzing EduBlogs, there
are settings that allow limited access to your information which the instructor would choose who is allowed
access to it. If someone wanted access to it, they would have to go through the teacher. You can also minimize
student’s risks by providing students with secure websites to get information from to prevent students from
running into falsified information.

Reflective Practice: I think the activities I created could impact student learning because it requires higher
ordered thinking and analysis of their workout and fitness experience. This lesson would be at the end of a
fitness unit, but I could further extend it by talking about goal setting. I could have students create a SMART
goal to upkeep their workout plan. Other technology I could incorporate is Nearpod to discuss SMART goals
and then students can create a blog post stating what their SMART goal is and the steps they will take to
achieve it.

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