Activity Bar Graph - Outcome D (10-30)-1

Sample Bar Graphs

Students participate in numerous activities during physical education class and outside of school. Have the students keep a daily record of their participation in various types of physical activity. This can be done in a logbook. Students will compile this information to create a bar graph that compares their participation in various activities for the month. Graphs could be made according to the activity by logging the number of hours spent on each. The activities could also be grouped into dimensions such as individual activities, dance, types of gymnastics, games, and alternative environments. A list of activites can be accessed here.

Students will hand in a compiled completed bar graph at the end of each month. The bar graphs will be handed back to the students at the end of the specified time period so that the results can be compared month to month.

Questions for the final comparison could include:

1. Which month/weeks were you the most active? Why?
2. Which month/weeks were you the least active? Why?
3. How could activities be scheduled into the month/weeks where you were less involved in physical activity?
4. After reviewing the activities in relation to the physical education dimensions, which dimension includes most of your activities? Why?
5. Would a wider variety of activities motivate you to be more active? Discuss your activity choices.

Students can make a bar graph by activity only, and not bother with what is done in any particular month.

Students can make a bar graph illustrating the activities they participate in during the physical education course to indicate what the course offered. To do a final comparison, students could then compare the activities they did in physical education class to those they do outside of class and discuss why the activities may be different.

These are clues that you have reached the outcomes ...

Students have done a thorough job of making the bar graphs for the specified period of time.

Students have indicated through the compilation of results that they are committed to an active lifestyle and/or understand how they could be more committed to an active lifestyle.

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