Chris+McGhee

They should know what FITT stands for and how to start an exercise program A knowledge of the five physical fitness components and how to calculate their target heart range This story would be introduced as a part of a physical fitness unit of instruction I utilized the zimmertwins.com website to create my story The students could be assessed a couple of different ways. I could assess them through multiple choice questions and an ORQ or I could have them create an exercise plan for themselves where they would have to explain how they used the FITT Principle to guide them in creating their plan. How does your story reflect Mayer's Principles? Multiple Representation Principle: It is better to present an explanation in words and pictures than solely in words. The pictures with the text give a better explanation of the FITT Principle. Contiguity Principle: When giving a multimedia explanation, present corresponding words and pictures contiguously rather than separately. The words being presents with the pictures gives better clarity to the story. Coherence Principle: When giving a multimedia explanation, use few rather than many extraneous words and pictures I attempted to use the least amount of words in the text box as possible while still teaching the viewer Modality Principle and Redundancy Principle: Students learn better from animation and narration than from animation and on screen text. There is no spoken narration while the text is on the screen to overload the visual and auditory channels and nothing is repeated over and over. Individual Differences Design effects are stronger for low knowledge learners than high knowledge learners and high spatial learners than low spatial learners. I tried to keep the text as simple as I could and make it easy to understand for anyone who sees it.
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The story starts with Eva wanting to know how to start exercising. Edgar and 13 help guide her by showing her what the FITT Principle means and how to use it to create an exercise program. They end the story by showing Eva examples of different exercises she could do.

[|The FITT Principle Lesson]**