Physical Education Pedometer Assignment 20 points Due Monday November 12, 2012 Task: Wear a pedometer for a week
(7 days) to track the number of steps you get on a daily basis. Current daily recommendations for high school students regarding steps are 10,000. That is your goal. You will track the amount of steps you get in a day and log it into a spreadsheet on Microsoft Excel. You will receive a spreadsheet to fill in your numbers for the corresponding days. At the end of the 7 days you will compile a student report in which you need to create a graph of your data and provide an explanation of it. The spreadsheet will look like this:
Number of Steps Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Rating Scale
You will also be asked to rate how you feel physically at the end of the day after completing your step counts. Here is the rating scale: Rating Scale 5 4 3 2 1 0 I feel: Great! Good! Okay. Tired. Bad. Awful.
Your pedometer will be checked daily, in class, so make sure to wear it and for the week it will be part of your dress code. This is to keep you accountable. This is what you will be graded on: Grading Criteria Full participation in wearing the pedometer on a daily basis. Actively engaging in the assignment by rating their physical state at the end of every day. Correctly making a bar graph and explaining its content. Correctly logging in all required information into the Microsoft Excel
Points Available 5 5 5 5
Student Report Student: Mayra Carrera Results: I walked a lot this week. I started of the week, on Monday, really well with 20,000 steps. I did a lot on Monday including walking to all my classes, a 2 mile run, and basketball practice. I didnt reach 20,000 steps again throughout the week, but I was close on Tuesday. After that I decreased in my daily steps. Friday and Saturday were the days I got the least amount of steps, but I still managed to get 10,000 or close to it. On Friday I went to the mall and walked around a lot, but I still didnt reach 10,000 steps. Every weekday I walked to the classes I had that day and to any errands that were within walking distance. I also ran a few times throughout the week including a 5.7-mile race on Sunday. Below is a visual of what my week was in terms of my step count.
Number of Steps 20,037 17,649 10,749 11,958 8,131 10,026 14,381 Rating Scale 5 5 4 5 4 5 2
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Teacher Analysis Student Name: Mayra Carrera Grading Criteria Full participation in wearing the pedometer on a daily basis. Actively engaging in the assignment by rating their physical state at the end of every day. Correctly making a bar graph and explaining its content. Correctly logging in all required information into the Microsoft Excel Total Recommendations from the teacher: Its evident that you do a lot of physical activity during the day. You accomplished 10,000+ steps on 6 out of the 7 days of the week and thats fantastic. There is never any harm in getting more though, the more the better, in this case. Looks like toward the end of the week, Wednesday-Sunday, you struggled to get more and so here are some recommendations to increase your step count on those days. When you drive to places and different locations park farther away. For example, that day you went to the mall maybe parking a few spots away from the building would have gotten you closer to the goal of 10,000 steps. Points Available 5 5 5 5 20 Points Attained 5 5 5 5 20
Student Report Student: Morgan MacFarlane Results: I noticed that Wednesday I didnt hit the goal of 10,000 steps a day. That was the only day that I did not achieve the goal. Wednesdays are my busiest days of class so I think that may have had something to do with it. I dont walk a lot on Wednesdays because I just hang out at the library until my next class starts. I also noticed that Tuesday I had the most steps. I only have one class on Tuesdays so I think that might be why I have the most steps. I have time to do a lot of different things on Tuesdays such as run, go grocery shopping, go clothing shopping, go on a walk, etc. The weekends had close to the same amount of steps. I usually do the same thing every weekend which is go on a run and then hang out with my friends.
Number of Steps 12,576 18,335 9,034 11,328 10,476 12,432 13,620 Rating Scale 5 5 3 5 4 5 4
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Teacher Analysis Student Name: Morgan MacFarlane Grading Criteria Full participation in wearing the pedometer on a daily basis. Actively engaging in the assignment by rating their physical state at the end of every day. Correctly making a bar graph and explaining its content. Correctly logging in all required information into the Microsoft Excel Total Recommendations from the teacher: On days some days instead of instead of going to the library and just sitting, as you might do could go on a walk around campus, depending on the weather. You could also take a longer route to get to class to take up more time and to get in more steps. In general, to make sure you hit the 10,000 steps a day goal, you could do a couple other things. You could park farther away from the store; you could walk every day to class, and walk your dogs when you go home instead of just letting them out in the yard. Points Available 5 5 5 5 20 Points Attained 5 5 5 5 20
