UNIT PLAN

Physh Ed National Fishing and Boating Education at Harnett Central Middle School

STATEMENT OF PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

Objective: Students will experience fishing, conservation, and water safety.

Competency Goal 1: The learner will develop knowledge and skills to enhance mental and emotional well being.Competency Goal 2; The learner will develop knowledge and skills to enhance personal and consumer health.Competency Goal 3: The learner will develop healthy and effective interpersonal communication and relationship skills.Competency Goal 4: The learner will apply knowledge and behavior self-management skills to areas of nutrition and physical activity for healthy growth, development, and maintenance.Competency Goal 5: The learner will choose not to participate in substance abuse.Competency Goal 6: The learner will demonstrate competency in a variety of movement forms and proficiency in a few to gain competence towards lifetime physical activities (NASPE Standard 1)Competency Goal 7: Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activities (NASPE Standard 2) Competency Goal 8: the learner will exhibit a physically active lifestyle (NASPE Standard 3)Competency Goal 9: The learner will show evidence of an acceptable level of health-related fitness and be familiar with factors that benefit performance (NASPE Standard 4)Competency Goal 10: Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others at the same time as values physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and/or social interaction (NASPE Standard 5 & 6)

PROGRAM BEGINNING/ END DATES December 10, 2007 / MAY 2, 2008

NUMBER OF STUDENTS IMPACTED AND ASSOCIATED GRADE LEVELS1100 students in grades 6TH, 7TH, & 8TH

LENGTH OF EACH CLASS AND FREQUENCYEach class is 40 minutes, for 21 days.

AN OUTLINE OF THE UNIT PLAN OF PROGRAM

Day 1 Facts about protecting and preserving the environment as it relates to fishing and boating. Lesson Plan on Conservation "Who polluted the River?"Fishing Terminology Names you need to know tips

Day 2 Fishing EtiquetteBag Limits, Slot Limits, Rules of Fishing, and obtaining a license for fishing in freshwater and saltwater.Guest Speaker from Wildlife Association Game Warden David Banholzer 910-890-3713

Day 3 Safe Boating, included the importance of wearing a PFD and why this device can save lives. (Demonstration of various types of PFD's)jacket, or personal floatation device (PFD), keeps you afloat, provides some warmth, and offers some protection against obstacles, such as rocks or pilings in the water.Power Point Presentation

Day 4 Skill: The student will be able to locate different parts & accessories of a vessel and what names are associated with them:(Port side, starboard side, bow & stern). **Assessment: Draw and label each part & accessory of a vessel. Learn the importance of attaching a kill switch. The concept of rough water as it relates to boating safety, the meaning of small craft advisory. How to use different knots to dock a boat. Basic Boat Care and Maintenance tips.

Day 5 How alcohol causes the most boating fatalities. Avoidance of alcohol when boating.Guest Speaker

Day 6 Learn the difference between spin castings and bait casting rods and reels, discussing different line weights and application (difference between 10 pound test line and 15 pound test line).Master the Fisherman's knot, Palomar Knot, and join fishing line. Power Point Presentation of 22 different Knots.

Day 7 & Day 8

Learn about terminal tackle, fishing lures including the entire water column. (Top water lures, crank baits, spinner baits, plastic worms, grubs, jigs, and live bait rigging) How to use leaders, swivels, and weights. Basics about using saltwater and freshwater lures. (Ex. Grubs for trout, sting silvers for bluefish, and bottom rigs for flounder and other bottom feeders in saltwater. Fresh water baits would focus on plastic worms, spinner baits, crank baits, and top water baits.)

Day 9 Rigging Tackle, Learn how to put a reel on the rod, thread the line, and apply the necessary tackle. Apply knowledge on what tackle rigging technique matches which fish.When to Fish tips

Day 10 Learn how to cast a bait caster and spinning outfit. This will include release, keeping the line from looping, and how to hold and retrieve a lure or rig. This will also include release and placement of lures and how to remove a line "over run"(normally used in Bass Fishing and some Saltwater fishing)

Day 11 & Teach students the over hand cast and pendulum cast (flip cast). (All to a certain location) (Side Arm Cast) Student must demonstrate.

Day 12 (Golf Fishing)

Day 13 Teach students about how to hook bait, and basic freshwater baits. How to find backyard fishing bait.

Day 14 Teach students how to read freshwater maps. Students will learn how to look at a lake map and find drop offs, creek channels, points, humps, and spawning areas. Includes direction, markers, and areas of a lake, peak seasons for fish species, and locations of the lake that holds fish at different times of the year.

Teach students how to read saltwater maps that include structure for fishing, and markers that help with navigation. Day 15 Teach the students about the relationship between water temperature, fishing, different fishing seasons, and boating safety.

Understanding and preventing the risk of cold water shock, hypothermia and hyperthermia are essential for students to paddle safely in a flat water environmentDay 16 Students will learn at what times of the year a certain area of a lake might hold more fish. Students will learn the basics of filling a tackle box, this will include line, lures,

terminal tackle, and first aid materials, and clippers.Day 17 Students will learn how to safely paddle and control a small boat or canoe. (on HCMS campus, DRY land) Canoe information presented be NC Wildlife and US Coast

Guard

Day 18, 19, & 20April 28,29,30, May 1,2 make-up days

Students will apply concepts learned. While fishing students will demonstrate proper techniques for choosing the correct lures/bait, casting, reeling, releasing and cleaning fish for consumption and .

Taking Kids Freshwater Fishing, What you need to know tips

Day 21 Final Test: Option of portfolio or taking a final written exam at the end of the unit.(emphasis placed on portfolio)

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(Fishing and paddling trips will be by grade levels on different days.)

Visit from NC Wildlife Officer, Freshwater and Saltwater Fishing Professional

Journal from each student to represent communication skills, used also as an assessment tool.

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FishingClub

A SUMMARY OF EXPECTED BENEFITS TO SPORTFISHING, RECREATIONAL ANGLING OR BOATING, AND THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.

Program extension expected to result in a fishing club that would meet and discuss techniques and strategies to catch more fish. The club(s) would schedule several fishing/boating experiences throughout the school year. The club(s) would share information on bodies of water that hold more fish, with emphasis on conservation and ethical behavior on behalf of all members.

Science 6th Grade Competency Goal 7: The learner will conduct investigations and use technologies and information systems to build an understanding of population dynamics.7.01 Describe ways in which organisms interact with each other and with nonliving parts of the environment.7.02 Investigate factors that determine the growth and survival of organisms including: light, temperature range, mineral availability, soil/rock type, water, and energy.7.03Explain how changes in habitat may affect organisms.7.04 Evaluate data related to human population growth, along with problems and solutions7.05 Examine evidence that overpopulation by any species impacts the environment7.06 Investigate processes which, operating over long periods of time, have resulted in the diversity of plant and animal life present today.

Species of fish, fish habitat, and environmental protection, Watershed projects, Identify and label the anatomy of different species in the aquatic environment.Skill: The student will be able to locate and explain different parts of the fish Activities "Go Fish" with one half of a picture with the fish head- tail and having to match up the other half (Assessments Checklist Indicating Mastery of the variety of fins on different species of fish)

Math Competency Goal 2: The learner will select and use appropriate tools to measure two and three-dimensional figuresEstimate and measure length, perimeter, area, angles, weight and mass of Lake Wheeler in Raleigh, N.C.

Career-Technical EducationFamily & Consumer Sciences

Wellness & Nutrition LM09.01 Investigate factors that promote and harm physical wellness and good nutrition. Prepare a meal using fish as the meat.

Language Arts Competency Goal 6 (6th, 7th, & 8th grades) The learner will apply conventions of grammar and language usage by: Writing a fishing/boating topic paper to use during an oral presentation. (Paper to be included in fishing journal)

Assessment Rubric to assess students skills of each objectiveWritten test to evaluate conservation, rules and regulations of fishing and safe boatingPractical test will be used to asses students application of fishing equipment, knot tying, presentation of lures and baitsVideo taping, teachers have the option to video tape students practicing all hands on skills to use as an evaluation tool to assist students to see their mistakes in order to make correction.Journal must include learning experiences, topic paper from language arts, and record of information.Oral question/answers and observations

7 Knot Tying

Objective: The student will be able to understand what know should be tied to what tackle and be able to tie a variety of common knots.Activity Description of Activities and

SettingMaterials and Supplies Time

1. Focus and Review

Quick view of power point of knots (22 different knots)Skill: The student will be able to tie three common knots and terminal tackle needed to begin fishing

Plastic hooks, rope or monofilament fishing line, whistle

5 min.

2. Statement of Objectives

The student will be able to understand what knot should be tied to what tackle and be able to tie a variety of common knots.

Safety: Make sure each student pair maintains self control and keeps the plastic hook and monofilament or rope to themselves.

3. Teacher Input

Discuss difference different line weights and application.Step by Step instruction on how to tie each knotPartner Students for knot tying.

5 min

4. Guided Practice

Each student will tie the knot three times whole other student holds the hook. Student partner will then tie the same knot three times as well

Sitting or Standing Space

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15 min.

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Students

5. Independent Practice

Check off each student knot; make sure all students can adequately tie at least 2 out of 3 knots.

14 min.

6. Closure Positive feedback for completing 2 out of 3 knots.

1 min.

Polamar Knot

1. Double line on itself about 8-10 inches 2. Put through hole3. Tie a loose overhand knot 4. Take loop end and place around swivel or lure 5. Tighten overhand knot 6. Trim loose end 7. Pull knot tight and trim ends.

You can also double or triple loop the original line through the swivel eye to make the double Polamar or the triple. This is a popular and easy to tie knot for small terminal tackle connections. It is one of the few recommended knots for use with braided lines.

Professional Fisherman Visitation

Objective: Students compare different fishermen (fresh-water, salt-water) and their professional supplies.

Activity Description of Activities and Setting

Materials and Supplies Time

1. Focus and Review

We all make choices to pick lifetime activities. Today we will all be able to evaluate the activity of professional fish people.

1 min.

2. Statement of Objectives

Students will compare different fish people and their professional supplies in order to determine their opinion of the lifetime activity of professional fishing.

Professionals (men & women)BoatsFishing Supplies

1 min.

3. Teacher Input

Demonstration area set up with boats, fishing supplies, and fishing professionals.

Sound systems for each speaker.Safety Cones for propellers on boat motors. Directional arrows for class transitions.

Set up before class starts

4. Guided Practice

Rotate to each station as a group. Rotation Schedule with time limits per station.

9 min. per station

5. Independent Practice

Students should ask questions based on fishing interest.

30 sec. per station

6. Closure Thank all participants and allow professionals to express the need for students to continue their education in order to allow lifetime activities to

2 min.

become reality.

12 Fish - 4 - GolfObjective: The student will understand the transition from basic casting to finesse placement by demonstrating the ability to cast a lure over handed, underhanded, side armed, and flipped to a certain location integrating them into the game of golf. Students will be team players while learning rules, follow directional arrows, and keeping a score card.Activity Description of Activities and

SettingMaterials and Supplies Time

1. Focus and Review

Review all ways to cast. 9 Scorecards Below , 9 Pencils or pens 9 directional arrows9 buckets ( or hula-hoops) 9 Rigged fishing poles with casting plug9 Starting cones

1 min

2. Statement of Objectives

The student will understand the transition from basic casting to finesse placement by demonstrating the ability to cast a lure over handed, underhanded, side armed, and flipped to a certain location integrating them into the game of golf. Students will be team players while learning rules, follow directional arrows, and keeping a score card.

1 min.

3. Teacher Input

Organize teams, distribute score cards and pencilsDemonstrate how to get more distance with each cast and how to finesse the casting plug.Tell them they will have to use both types of casts in order to play.Explain every cast is worth a point and the person with the fewest points wins the match.Teach everyone the tee is where you begin and the bucket is the end of that hole.

8 min.

Everyone must follow the directional arrows at all times.

This will keep the game on track and all teams will travel to the next highest number from which they came.Walk through course with students 1st explaining how to play.

4. Guided Practice

Play the game in groups making sure each player watches in different directions for others casting in their direction.

15 min

5. Independent Practice

Start1st Tee

2nd

5th Tee

3rd Tee 6th

7th

8th

Groups Keep on score sheet to turn in.

10 min

4th Tee 9th Tee

6. Closure Total Scores: Team who received the lowest score is declared the winner. Take up score sheets.

5 min

Visual Arts: Middle School Lesson Plan

Submitted by Stormy Ritchie

Lesson TitleJapanese Fish Kites

Grade Level6-8

Time Allotment:2 (40 minute) lessons for creating and interacting with kites

Targeted Goals and Objectives from the 2000 North Carolina Arts Education Standard Course of Study and Grade Level Competencies, K-12:1.01 Plan and organize for creating art2.01 Recognize the unique properties of various media.2.02 Explore and identify the use of a variety of materials using proper vocabulary and terminology.2.03 Differentiate among techniques and processes for working with each materials.2.04 Discover the expressive potential of various media and techniques3.02 Recognize and discuss the elements and principles of design in an aesthetic composition4.02 Understand the use of life surroundings and personal experiences are used to express ideas and feelings visually.5.01 Demonstrate an understanding that the visual arts have a history, purpose and function in all cultures.5.02 Identify specific works of art as belonging to a particular culture, time and place.

6.01 Describe various purposes for creating works of visual art.6.02 Describe how people's experiences influence the development of specific artworks

Lesson Objectives:Students will learn about the Japanese culture and their celebration of children. They will learn about the importance of fish in their culture and traditions. Students will learn about the creation of fish kites for celebrations and parades. Students will learn how to create their own fish kite using tissue paper, markers, oil pastels, and glue.

Materials:2 x 18” poster strip oil pastelsglue neon bright jumbo yarnvarious colors of tissue paper scissorspermanent black marker hole puncher colored markersLesson Procedures:1. make a circle of poster strip and glue ends together.2. Fold tissue paper in half long ways.3. Open tissue paper and glue circular poster tube onto top and fold back tissue to enclose poster for mouth of fish.4. Cut out tail.5. Glue open ends shut.6. With perm. Marker add eye, gills, fin to front and back.7. Use colored markers to add color to both sides.8. Use oil pastels to enhance with color.9. Punch hole in center of mouth.10. Add yarn for handle11. Go outside and let the wind carry the fish up into the air.

Closure:Review the Japanese culture and why the fish is so important to them. Review the steps of creating fish kite and critique the elements and principles of design created within their fish kite.

Math

Objective: Students will complete math word problems that are correlated to their Fishing Experiences.

Activity Description of Activities and Setting

Materials and Supplies Time

1. Focus and Review

Math us used in every part of our life, even in our fishing experiences

30 sec.

2. Statement of Objectives

Students will complete math word problems that are correlated to their Fishing Experiences.

Questions for each studentPencils

30 sec.

3. Teacher Input

Show students how to take information within a table and create a bar graph.How to determine height and depth based on volume in meters, length and width.How to estimate

8 min.

4. Guided Practice

Volunteer should work out sample questions on the blackboard

8 min.

5. Independent Practice

Students complete individual questions 10 min

6. Closure Check work, positive reinforcement to all participants, Relate Math to the Real Life

13 min.