Accomplished Attitude

Student displays a positive attitude the entire class period Student keeps up the pace of the activity participating to full potential Student shows improvement during flexibility exercises Student shows improvement during strength exercises; push-ups/sit ups

Average
Student displays a positive attitude most of the class period Students keeps up with the pace of the activity with a few breaks Student progress is at a stand still Student progress is at a stand still

Needs Improvement
Student displays a negative attitude during the class period Student is unable to keep up with the pace of the activity Student puts little to no effort in to participate in activity Student puts little to no effort in to participate in activity

Cardiovascular Endurance Flexibility

Strength

5th Grade Students Number of Students: 23 Male: 12 Age range: 9-11 Male Students Attitude Acc Acc Acc Acc Acc Acc Acc Acc Acc Acc Acc Acc Cardio End Av NI Acc NI ACC NI NI ACC AV NI NI NI Flex Av NI Av Av AV NI NI ACC AV AV ACC AV Strength Acc Acc Av Av AV NI ACC ACC AV AV ACC AV Attitude Acc Acc Acc Acc Acc Acc Acc Acc Acc Acc Acc Female Students Cardio End NI NI Acc NI NI NI AV NI ACC AV AV Flex NI NI Acc AV AV ACC NI AV ACC NI AV Strength Acc Acc Av AV ACC ACC AV AV AV AV AV Female: 11

Male vs Female Cardio Endurance

3.5 3 2.5 2 1.5 1 0.5 0 A B C D E F MALE G H I J K L FEMALE

In Physical Education students must be tested twice in semester or year depending on grade level using the Fitness gram assessment. The goal in this lesson was to improve student performance for this assessment. The Fitness Gram assesses cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, and strength using a variety of ability tests. During the lesson I had my cooperating teacher assist me in formatively assessing the students based on the above rubric. Before I began the activity I made a point to go over cardiovascular health and some basic reasons why it is so important. Studies show that childhood obesity is on the rise, currently up by 30% over the last 20 years. As you can see, I have taken the data from the rubric and based on which category students did the worst on, disaggregated the data. I compared males and females based on their cardiovascular performance. Displayed in the line graph above are the staggering results based on performance in class. Nearly half of the students in this class performed poorly in cardiovascular endurance. These students were unable to keep up with the class and frequently sat out. I was amazed at the students who could not continuously run for 60 seconds at a time.