Fitness for Life Canada With Web Resources PDF
Preparing Teens for Healthy, Active Lifestyles
$49.95 CAD
Access Duration: 10 Years
- The foundations of active and healthy living, including adopting healthy lifestyles and self-management skills and setting goals and planning personal programs
- Learning the basics for lifelong activity and health, including engaging in smart and safe physical activity, knowing how much activity is enough, and understanding healthy eating
- Beginning activity and building fitness, including participating in moderate- and vigorous-intensity physical activity and developing cardiorespiratory endurance
- Building muscle fitness and flexibility, including understanding muscle fitness applications and ergogenic aids
- Maintaining a healthy lifestyle, including achieving a healthy body composition, choosing nutritious foods, and making good consumer choices
- Creating positive and healthy experiences, including managing stress, developing lifelong leadership skills, understanding reproductive and sexual wellness, and making wise choices regarding alcohol, drugs, and tobacco
- Lesson objectives direct student learning.
- Lesson vocabulary helps students understand multiple uses of words (definitions in glossary and online).
- Art includes a version of the physical activity pyramid for teens.
- Photos and design give the chapters a refreshing student-friendly look with its dynamic four-color design.
- Muscle art identifies the muscles used in each exercise.
- Fit Facts give quick information about relevant topics.
- Quotes from famous people reveal their thoughts on fitness, health, and wellness.
- Fitness Technology offers opportunities for students to use and study technology.
- Science in Action provides in-depth coverage of innovations in fitness, health, and wellness.
- Self-Assessment allows students to evaluate their fitness, health, and wellness as the first step in personal planning for improvement.
- Taking Charge and Self-Management allow students to learn self-management skills for adopting healthy behaviors and interacting with other students to solve problems encountered by hypothetical teens.
- Taking Action features activities that are supported by the lesson plans.
- Consumer Corner helps students become good consumers of information on fitness, health, and wellness as they learn how to separate fact from fiction.
- Video clips that demonstrate the self-assessments in each chapter
- Video clips that demonstrate the exercise in selected chapters
- Worksheets without answers
- Review questions from the text presented in an interactive format so students can check their level of understanding
- Expanded discussions of topics marked by web icons in the text
- Vocabulary terms with definitions
- An introduction that describes the body of knowledge and pedagogical foundations behind Fitness for Life Canada as well as the evidence supporting its effectiveness
- Daily lesson plans, including five lessons per chapter: two classroom plans and three activity plans
- Worksheets with answers
- Premade chapter and unit quizzes with answers
- Activity cards and task cards
- Presentation package of slides with the key points for each lesson
- A test bank that teachers can use to make their own quizzes if they prefer
How Much Moderate-Intensity Physical Activity Is Enough?
The FIT Formula and Nutrition
Seated Overhead PressTaking Charge: Self-Confidence Touring Fitness for Life CanadaVigorous Aerobics,Sport, and Recreation
Student Web Resources
Fitness for Life offers student supporting resources.
https://canada.humankinetics.com/pages/fitness-for-life-k-12-resources
The student web resource accessible with each student text includes the following:
- Video clips that demonstrate the self-assessments in each chapter
- Video clips that demonstrate the exercise in selected chapters
- Worksheets without answers
- Review questions from the text presented in an interactive format so students can check their level of understanding
- Expanded discussions of topics marked by web icons in the text
- Vocabulary terms with definitions
The online teacher ancillary resources below are available free to each school adoption and purchase of a class set. They include the following:
- An introduction that describes the body of knowledge and pedagogical foundations behind Fitness for Life Canada as well as the evidence supporting its effectiveness
- Daily lesson plans, including five lessons per chapter: two classroom plans and three activity plans
- Worksheets with answers
- Premade chapter and unit quizzes with answers
- Activity cards and task cards
- Presentation package of slides with the key points for each lesson (see more below)
- A test bank that teachers can use to make their own quizzes if they prefer (see more below)
The Fitness for Life Canada presentation package includes over 450 slides of key concepts, figures, and tables for each lesson in the book.
Test Package
The Fitness for Life Canada test package includes a bank of over 750 true-or-false, fill-in-the-blank, essay and short-answer, matching, and multiple-choice questions. Instructors can use premade tests for each chapter or each unit or create their own tests from the question bank using Respondus.
All teacher ancillary materials for this text are free to course adopters with the purchase of a class set, and available online at www.HumanKinetics.com/FitnessForLifeCanada.