Step To It Lesson 3
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The password-protected step tracker is no longer available. However, viewers are encouraged to record their steps using other methods.
- Step To It Student Journal
- Step Tracker
(no longer available) - Daily News Template Word format
- Daily News Template PDF format
- Simplified Daily Step Log for long term step tracking
- Using a Consensogram for Assessment
- Pedometer Tip Sheet
This lesson should be incorporated on Monday during the last week of a 10-week period and will take the full class period. It is the final of three lessons for the Step To It Exploration.
Today, you will:
- Review 10 weeks of step data with students.
- Guide students in:
- Drawing conclusions about pedometer activities.
- Sharing findings through a newsletter on successful ways students increased movement.
- Making recommendations on how other students could be involved in a similar pedometer activity.
- Present opportunities for additional learning.
Preparation
- Set up computer with projector for class.
- Download the Daily News Template Word format or PDF format and be prepared to create a class newsletter with students.
- Review National Science Standards Met by Step To It and the Assessment at the end of this lesson and decide which assessment strategies you will use.
Activities
The Step To It Exploration has been an experiment with your students. Spend some time discussing the activity. Later in the day, you will create a newsletter sharing findings of the experiment. This discussion should prepare your students to do that. Review the activity with your students, asking them to discuss the components of the experiment.
- Research Questions may include:
- How can we get youth to move more?
- What role do pedometers play in getting youth to move more?
- Are pedometers effective tools for getting students to move more?
- Hypotheses were established in each student's journal. Review those with the students.
- Methodology includes:
- Identifying subjects (this class)
- Establishing a baseline (in Week 1)
- Collecting data (journals and Step Tracker)
The last steps of a scientific activity are to analyze the data, draw conclusions, and make recommendations for future study.
Data Analysis Activity
- Use the Step Tracker (no longer available) and the Student Journal to demonstrate ways to analyze different data. Discuss with your students:
- Student total vs. student average
- Graphs of individual data
- Week 1 vs. other weeks
- Discuss the different rises and falls in steps among classmates
- Discuss any anomalies and their causes
- Draw conclusions. Discuss with your students:
- What role did the pedometer have in getting students to move more?
- What strategies were successful in helping students increase their movement?
- Develop recommendations for further research. Discuss with your students:
- How could this activity be done with other classes, teachers?
- How could pedometers be used with students' families or friends?
- How the class continue using pedometers during the rest of the year?
Newsletter Activity
- Use the Daily News Template Word format or PDF format to create a class newsletter. Use your class discussion as a basis for entering each section in the newsletter. You may decide to work in groups, having each group address a different section of the newsletter.
- Share the newsletter with your school and community.
Step It Up Activity
Review Step It Up activities in the Student Journal and determine which additional learning activities to do as a class.
If your class decides to continue tracking steps over the coming semester, consider using the Simplified Daily Steps Log. If you want to use the Step Tracker (no longer available), you will want to create a new class to enable a new 10-week session.
Assessment
Graded Summative Assessment
If you need a graded assessment, there are at least two opportunities for grading in this activity.- Participation grade: Give grades based on successful entering of Student Journal data into the Step Tracker (no longer available).
- Documentation grade: Give grades based on written feedback provided in journals through the Q & A section or through the Step It Up activities.
Formative Assessment
For this lesson's Consensogram, consider one of the following items:- I can use a pedometer and track my movement successfully.
- I know how many steps a day I should take.
- I know how I can meet my goals.