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Program Overview

The ‘How Fit Are Wii’ program is part of the Department of Education and Early Childhood Developments - KnowledgeBank Next Generation Research Projects. The program aims to answer the question;

“How can students use Wii Fit to assess their own fitness levels and implement strategies in order to improve their own fitness and that of others”

The program also aims to reinvigorate a tired curriculum with a new and exciting approach to learning the key concepts of fitness, while ultimately developing an understanding of the importance of physical activity. Students will utilise the game ‘Wii Fit’ in conjunction with the existing practical based classes, where they will have the oppurtunity to apply the concepts they have learnt during the ‘How Fit Are Wii’ program. Other key aspects of the program include;

· Students learning how to assess their own fitness using Wii fit and transfering this into a real life example.
· Students recording their physical activity across the 10 week program to determine their own requirements and then acting on these in practical based sessions.
· Students creating videos detailing different strategies designed to improve the physical activity of their own parents and others in the wider community.

Besides seeking to improve the academic rigour of the students within the program, it will also seek to engage them more deeply within the content, making it more enjoyable for both engaged and disengaged students to attend class.

The ‘How Fit Are Wii’ program will target a variety of outcomes in the Victorian Essential Learning Standards framework as deemed necessary by the Victorian Department of Education. A more detailed explantation of how the 'How Fit Are Wii' program targets VELS, can be found on the ‘Curriculum Links’ page.

The students and I thankyou for taking the time to visit this website and we look forward to showing the world exactly How Fit Wii we can become.

Jarrod Robinson

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