Preparing for life in the 21st Century

An Erasmus+project 2014-2016

PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ART PERIOD( February-April 2016)

Vasiliki Kosmatou. 1st General Lyceum of ilion.PE teacher
mail: 64cosmvan@gmail.com

Part I
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Be active, be healty , be happy. A life-long quality attitude towards life.
INTRODUCTION
We cant solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created
them. Einstein
For children and young people, physical activity includes play, games, sports, dance,
physical education, or planned exercise, in the context of family, school, and community
activities. Physical activity should not be mistaken with sports.. Regular physical
activity includes participation in moderate and vigorous physical activities and musclestrengthening activities.
Personal, social, economic, and environmental factors, all play a role in physical activity
levels among youth.
The health benefits of physical activity are now well known. As little as 30 minutes of
physical activity on most days of the week promotes better health and prevents illness.
For the most part, however, studenst and teenagers do not engage in sufficient physical
activity to enjoy the health benefits.
Schools play a very important role in helping students develop healthy habits and
behaviors through physical activities and nutrition programs.
Physical activities. Create physical activities guideline.
Nutrition, Healthy weight, Obesity and Anorexia .Create nutrition guideline

OBJECTIVES OF OUR PE PERIOD

After this period students will be able to:
1. Summarize expected benefits of Physical activities and healthy nutrition.
2. Identify ways to overcome barriers to healthy eating and physical activity.
3. Set a specific, realistic personal health goal according their physical activities
and healthy nutrition.
4. Increase their physical activities by the end of the school year. Develop their
nutrition habits. Develop their\s family attitude towards a new healthy life style.
OUR GOALS
1. Develop the 4Cs skills of 21st century education: critical thinking,
communication, collaboration and creativity .Students have to answer in questions
which develop 4Cs like:
What is the purpose of our research??
What are we trying to accomplish?
What issues or problems are raised?
What data, what experiences, what evidence are given?
What do we already know about obecity and anorexia in teenagers
What are the implications of an unhealthy life-style?
Do you agree or disagree with the statement that there is no connection between
weight lose and physical activity and that a diet is enought? What evidence is
there to support your answer?
2. Develop students and teachers ICT skills and level of English language.
3. Develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to be physically active for a
lifetime.
4. Create opportunities for students to become involved in physical activities.
5. Enhance opportunities for students to participate in daily physical activities.
6. Physical activity and calorie balance.
7. Increase awareness and knowledge about healthy eating.
8. Increase awareness of the costs personal and financial, related diseases,
absenteeism and the socioeconomic and personal factors associated with
overweight and obesity.
As a final outcome, we will create a manual, an e-book, where we will present the
results of all of our activities. This e-book is going to help our school community to
adopt a life-long healthy life style.

The resource manual will have the following parts .

Part I
Introduction: Describes the need for physical activity in teenagers and a life time
engagement .
Definition of Physical activities
Benefits of Physical activities in mental and health life.
Chapter 1: State strategies about physical education and physical activities. We
compare them and we write and suggest a common strategy.
Chapter 2 : 52goals challenges in physical activities.
We present the yearly plan of the 52 weeks of physical activities.
Chapter 3: The BMI (body mass index). A research about BMI in European students.
Are we growning up overweight teenagers? How a teenagers personality features in
relation with gender and BMI. The results of our surveys.

BMI inGreece
BMI in Hungary
BMI in Italy
BMI in Romania
BmI in Spain
BMI in Italy

Chapter 4: Nutrition: its role to overweight teenagers, obecity, bulimia and anorexia
nervosa.
The definition of obesity , bulimia and anorexia nervosa.
A healthy nutritious week program with traditional healthy food recipes (
breakfast, mid morning snack, lunch ,mid-afternoon snack and dinner) and
desserts.
Chapter 5: results of surveys in physical activities and healthy nutrition.

PART II
Chapter 1: Art in Sports. A Passionate Relationship
What is Art
Olympic Games and Art
Chapter 2.: Photo Gallery

LIST OF ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITY 1. Introduction and Chapter 1 (State strategies).
Each country writes a document where defines the Physical Activity, the benefits of
Physical activities and give us information about the strategies of their country about
physical education and physical activities.
For example: Whats the role of PE at school. What about the curriculum according PE
and what the school does for promoting a life long engagement to physical activities
and healthy nutrition.
Gathering all the information we can compare the strategies, find pros and cos and write
our common strategy which we can suggest it in our city council

ACTIVITY 2: Chapter 2 and Chapter 3.

GOAL: Collaboration, personal development. Dissemination using social media,
facebook and twitter.
a)52goals challenges in physical activities. Each team presents 9 different physical
activities. 2-3 physical activities according the season. Try to read the others posts for
not having double entrances. We write our suggestions in padlet in etwinning platform
and also in the facebook group The 52 physical activities Challenge and in twitter
using the hashtag #52physicalactivities

b)We calculate the BMI ( body mass index) of our schools students. Can we write a
report about the BMI and nutritious habits of our classmates?
If every student record 15 entrances, we will have a large number of participants and our
results will be more official. What a challenge!

We compare the BMI of all countries.

Important note: BMI compares your weight to your height, and is calculated by dividing
your weight in kilograms by your height in metres squared. It gives you an idea of
whether youre underweight, a healthy weight, overweight, or obese for your
height. Speak to your doctor, an Accredited Practising Dietitian or a health practitioner
about your weight.This calculator shouldnt be used for pregnant women or children.
(https://heartfoundation.org.au/your-heart/know-your-risks/healthy-weight/bmicalculator)
The type we can use to calculate the BMI is BMI= weight/ (height)
Example BMI=82(kgr)/165cm=30,1 which means obecity
We use excel diagrams for presenting the results.
Dont forget to record the gender and the age of the participants!
BMI Categories:
Underweight=<18.5
Normal weight= 18.524.9
Overweight = 2529.9
Obesity = BMI of 30 or greater
ACTIVITY 3 :Chapter 4
GOAL: Collaboration, Critical thinking ,Creativity.
Healthy nutrition .Survey and Guidelines for teenagers and students
Obesity, Anorexia, overweight teenagers. Nutritional habits . What do we have to
change and how?
Each country has to write 6 recipes( the countries order is alphabetical) Please include
photos of your recipes.
Recipes for
Breakfast
Mid-morning snack
Lunch
Mid- afternoon snack
Dinner
Dessert

Country
Greece
Hungary
Italy
Romania
Spain
Turkey

ACTIVITY 5: Chapter 5
Create a survey about our countrys teenagers habits according physical education
/physical activities and healthy nutrition. The survey must have 10-15 questions.
We compare the results. We will use the google forms for creating the survey. Each
country upload the document with the results in padlet.

part II
OBJECTIVES OF OUR PE AND ART PERIOD

SPORTS and ART

Both art and sports are such important pieces of our culture and history.
The concept and portrayal of sport and the athlete in art has been an evolving
phenomenon in the art world for as long as their has been art.
There are several sports where success is determined by the application of aesthetic
criteria to performance. For example Gymnastics, Surf, Diving, etc. Sport actions have
aesthetic value, just like Dance, just like a Painting, just like Cinema.
In our project we will study art through dance and Olympic Games.
The perfect movement of a dancer, the excellent movement of an athletewhat can be
than art?
Our main question will be: What is Art?
ACTIVITIES
A photo collection with traditional folk costumes from all countries will uploaded in a
collection in pinterest

OLYMPIC GAMES
The art of the athletes is presented in sculpture and vasculars. We will visit virtual
museums trying to discover them.
But there are more materials where we can admire the art of the Olympic games. In
posters of the Olympics, in stamps, in medals..
We will create our virtual museum of Olympic Art using the application Google
Cultural Institute

ACTIVITIES
Apps and platforms
1 and 2 )The role of PE
and physical activities in
teenagers life (a short but
Word, Padlet
comprehensive
document).Denefits .State
strategies .Suggestions
52goals challenges in
physical activities( 9
goals each country)

calculate the BMI

Recipes ( 6 recipes each
country)

Survey in physical
activities and nutrition

Photo collection with folk

costumes
Virtual museum of
Olympic art

DEAD LINES

25/2-6/3

Facebook group, twitter

7/3-13/3

Reports in Padlet , excel

7/3-13/3

padlet

14/3-20/3

Google forms- reports

and results in padlet.
Students upload the
survey in their facebook
profils asking from their
friends to participate.

21/3-3/4

Padlet , pinterest

4/4-10/4

Padlet, Google Cultural

Institute

4/4-10/4

17- 23/4/2016 mobility in Tagirdag

I suggest to have pair of students ( 2-3 students), so they will have a lot of time to finish
their tasks. The only tasks with all students participating are the surveys and the BMI
survey
The dates are INDICATIVE. All activities must be finished before the Tagirdag
mobility.

Thank you