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Health and Fitness Trends. Module B: Lesson 2 Grade 12 Healthy, Active Lifestyles. Essential Questions. What is a trend? What is a current health and/or fitness trend? How are trends used to address issues and interests?
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Health and Fitness Trends Module B: Lesson 2 Grade 12 Healthy, Active Lifestyles
Essential Questions • What is a trend? • What is a current health and/or fitness trend? • How are trends used to address issues and interests? • How have the trends in health and fitness changed in the last few years?
trend noun 1. the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events. 2. style or vogue: the new trend in women's apparel. 3. the general direction followed by a road, river, coastline, or the like. verb (used without object) 4. to have a general tendency, as events, conditions, etc. 5. to tend to take a particular direction; extend in some direction indicated. 6. to emerge as a popular trend; be currently popular: trending topics on the Internet; words that have trended this year.
fad noun a temporary fashion, notion, manner of conduct, etc., especially one followed enthusiastically by a group
Health and Fitness Trend Predictions • ACSM’s Health and Fitness Trend Predictions • Worldwide Survey Reveals Fitness Trends for 2008 • “Exercise programs for children to fight childhood and adolescent obesity” was ranked as the number 1 and number 2 • ACE’s Fitness Trend Predictions
Trend Predictions and Analysis • Offer suggestions for what they perceive to be current trends in health and fitness • Rank the identified trends based on how strong they perceive the trends to be • Offer their reasons for selecting the identified trends • Share with students the trends identified by ACSM or ACE.