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Joint statement With many different interests and many different preferred learning areas across the class, the idea of this assignment is to use the different areas of ICT and integrate them with our preferred subject area. Our understanding of ICT and the uses of ICT will be developed and put into use through the planning, developing and the publishing of a webquest that will span across four lessons and allow students the chance to interactively learn. The subject area that we as a group will look at is Health and Physical Education and in particular healthy eating and exercise and how important they are in society today. This links to the WA curriculum which outlines under the health and physical education section that Knowledge and Understanding: students know and understand health and physical activity concepts that enable informed decisions for a healthy, active lifestyle. It also links to outcomes in the overarching statement in numbers 2,4,8 and 11.

A mind map is our first task, as a group we must decide what sort of things within the subject area we are going to teach over the four lessons and how we can integrate ICT into these lessons. The mind map must also show how the curriculum relates to the issues that will be covered in the classroom. A project plan must also be created so that we can see what is required and when it is required by. In preparation, we are required to complete a forward planning document which illustrates what will occur in each lesson and in what order as well as what resources are needed, how it will be assessed and the learning areas in which it is related to. We must explain the ICT that will be used in our lessons and finally we must explain how it is all evidence-based learning theory.

Our project is to develop the students understanding of how important a healthy lifestyle is, they will use the internet and other ICT’s to find out about healthy eating and exercise and with this knowledge will be asked to create a weekly eating planner and exercise schedule for someone in their family or close to them. Students will need to look at what kind of foods they enjoy eating, how healthy these foods are and the exercise they need to undertake in considering both injury and enjoyment factors.

Mind Map

Project plan



HOW WE ARE UTILIZING ICT To create a different type of assessment, we intend on engaging our students through the use of different ICT throughout the project. Firstly students will use polleverywhere.com and thus their mobile phones to find out how many are eating the recommended serving as per the healthy food pyramid. Students will then follow the links of the webquest where they will end up at calorieking.com.au and they will be able to track their favourite foods and how many calories they are eating when indulging on these delights. Students will then use a table document in word to fill in a chart about kilojoules and the energy the body gets from food. The next lesson students will use a combination of the internet and word process to come up with spread sheets that clearly show what exercise is and the different types that can be involved when exercising. These sheets will also provide insight into food that is ingested in regards to exercise and the benefit supplements can have if taken correctly on elite athletes.

During the third lesson, the main different ICT used will be the use of blood pressure monitors and heart rate monitors to measure the heart rate and blood pressure of someone performing physical activity on an exercise bike. During this lesson students will also use the computers and in particular the learning federation to allow students to see what foods their eating and their energy intake versus their energy expenditure depending on how active they are. Students are also given the opportunity to use a calorie calculator that shows the amount of calories burnt depending on certain exercises and lengths of periods that these exercise are done for. Lastly students will again use the computer and excel and the internet to provide a final product of a exercise regime and weekly eating planner for someone in their relative family.

Learning Theory The use of technology in our ICT classroom presentation uses a constructivism type learning theory. Learning theorists such as Jean Piaget, Jerome Bruner, Lev Vygotsky and John Dewey suggest that constructivism is “learning involves constructing one’s knowledge from one’s own experience”. We are hoping that in this day and age that most of the students will be familiar with a lot of different types of technology, either through work or leisure and will be able to convert this knowledge into learning in the classroom.

It is also thought that constructivism type learning promotes active learning, discovery learning and knowledge learning. It is said that it allows students to have a sense of freedom when they are learning and through the types of technology we will be using such as apps we are hoping students will get this type of freedom.

Forward planning document