Chapter 14: Technology in Physical Education and Health Education

1. Chapter 14: Technology in Physical Education and Health Education By: Dylan Ford & Aron Neal

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3. 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. APPS related to health and P.E.

4. 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

5. 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. Supporting Improved Physical Fitness (Cont.)

6. 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 Exergaming

7. 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. Nutritional analysis Programs

8. 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. Alternates to the textbook

9. 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 (387)

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11. 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. Vodcasting

12. 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.htmlThis website provides the latest information on how to provide technology in physical education classes. • http://www.healthteachers.comThis website provides roughly 300 lessons for K-12 Health and P.E. teachers that meet the National Health Education Standards. List of websites