Teacher Resources

Download these files for your use:

• Physical Fitness Workout Log (Our students fill out one of these after every class)
• Physical Fitness Course Syllabus (We pass these out on the first day of school)
• Course Outline Form — Fitness and Food (A description of an elective course we’d like to offer next year.  All we need is $25,000.  Any ideas?)
• Falcon Fit (Based heavily on “the list” from CrossFit LA, we added and revised a little to make it work better for high school students.  It is getting really big, and to read it you have to print it and tape the pieces together.) Here is the abbreviated version that we hand out to PE students.
• An attempt at a “list” for nutrition. We’re not using this with students yet.  We’d like your feedback.
• Grading Rubric–Functional Movements (Taken essentially from the Level I Certification Manual, we use this as an instructional and grading rubric–3 points (perfect), 2 (needs improvement), or 1 (not so good); students must meet a pre-determined criteria before adding weight to the movement.)
• CrossFit CAHPERD Presentation(For those of you we saw in Ontario, this was our PowerPoint)
• Strategies For Success (This is the text for an article we wrote for the February issue of CrossFit Kids Magazine, about how we got our CrossFit program started at Saratoga High.  It looks way cooler in the magazine, you should subscribe.)
• Results of the Student Survey from March 2010.  Open-ended responses to the survey.
• Results of the second student survey from January 2011.
• Have you seen our article “Facebook of Fitness?” in the CrossFit Journal?  Here’s what people are saying about it.
• Want the rules for the Simpsons CrossFit Game?  Click here (acknowledgments to Joey Berner)
• Here is a teachers’ guide for the Simpsons CrossFit Game based on “Lisa’s Rival” from Season 6.  Numbers indicate the order of appearance of characters or events.
• Here is the rubric for assessment and improvement of fitness referred to in the lesson plan for week 12.  Teachers use this as a grading guide, and we ask students to do a self-assessment in the form of an essay, addressing each point in the rubric.
• Somebody in Peru thinks we’re cool!
• Here is the record keeping form for the strength program introduced in week 24.
• In Week 34 we introduced a group project menu to our students.  Here is a general description of the project, and grading rubrics for each of the four “menu items:” the outdoor WOD, programming, the game, and thefitness promotion activity. Here is a video of one of the student programming projects, and here’s another very cute student video of an outdoor WOD at the mall.
• Saratoga High students are smart, but how will they do on the Weight Room Math challenge?
• See our newest article in the CrossFit Journal.
• We’re experimenting with new ways of displaying our Falcon Fit standards.  Not sure if this will work, but check it out.  Keep pressing “play” and you’ll get an overview.  You can zoom in and out anywhere you want to.  Click on “more” to find the full screen option.
• Here is the grading rubric for the Tabata Song
• Our proposed “benchmark” workouts–analogous to CrossFit’s “Girls” (see 4. WOD, 4.1) for the 2011-12 school year.
• The latest version of Falcon Fit.  Try this on your iPad.  You might  have to download the free Prezi Viewer app.  This version, instead of letting you view and explore on your own, will take you on a systematic tour.
• Here is our Intermediate Spring Break Project time line. Lets see if students can apply their new found knowledge to their own lives!