SPHE 461: Current Trends in Fitness & W ellness Cumulative Project –Part 1

Week 3 Assignment & Rubric *Week #3 Assignment* This exercise is designed to help you gain the tools necessary to assess the fitness, sport, and health industry, current trends and practices, and their relationship to health and wellness management. In addition, this will help you understand how current health and fitness trends will impact your personal career in this industry. This project will give you some experience in addressing an issue with a more current trend/practice, and designing a plan for its implementation using evidence-based solutions. Week #1 Deliverable Items:

1. Paper (3-5 page) 2. Media Gallery (pics) contribution

Introduction to your Project: Selecting a Community/Organization & Current Trend of Interest

This week 3 assignment is a short paper that addresses each of the items below serves as a proposal for your project. You will also submit a contribution to the Media Gallery. This is not a presentation, just a depiction of your organization and/or current trend.

This is a 2-part assignment that requires a submission to the Media Gallery, as well as the submission of a paper to the Week 3 Assignment area.

Part 1 In a 3-5 page paper, please identify and describe a community or organization of interest to you, as well as a description of a current trend and how you can use it to benefit this community/organization. Please be sure to include:

• Description of the community or organization of Interest • Description of the Current Trend • Explanation of the health and/or fitness problem in that community or organization • Explanation of the interrelationship between your community/organization and the current

health and fitness trend you are reporting on • How you plan on using the current trend/issue to benefit this community/organization • See additional formatting guidelines below.

Part 2 Please upload a picture to the Media Gallery that depicts your organization and/or current trend that you will be discussing.

1. Obtain or create your artifact (picture). 2. Click on the Media Gallery link that is located near the bottom in the left-hand menu in our

classroom. 3. Upload your artifact

a. Add a short description of your organization/trend b. Tag it with the Week 3 Assignment Tag, so your classmates can see and comment.

4. There is a small point value to this (see rubric for details). Please consider this an area for collaboration with your classmates. This type of sharing can provide you with (free) peer

feedback on your project. Other than the points for simply uploading your picture, this is a totally ungraded area and free from instructor comments.

Additional Instructions Your submission must be attached as a WORD document only. All references (5-8 peer-reviewed references required), in-text citations, and narrative must be in APA format. You are to construct a paper that has a solid introduction, body, and conclusion that addresses all items listed above. Hint: If you use the above items as section headings, you will have an easier time including all of the requirements. So, the layout of your paper may look something like what is outlined following this paragraph. Suggested headings are in bold. Please keep in mind that you may use different headings and that what is listed below is for purposes of example and does not depict APA formatting. The basics of APA formatting:

• Include a title page • 3-5 pages in length (this requirement does not include the title or reference pages) • Please feel free to include appropriate graphics and photos • Include an appropriately formatted reference list (6-8 references) • Please keep in mind that if a resource is listed on your reference list at the end of a paper, it

must first have been used in the body of your paper as an in-text citation • 1” margins all around (no additional indenting –except 1st line of each paragraph) • Double-spaced throughout paper • APA in-text citations and reference formatting is required • 12-point, times new roman or arial • The majority of the paper should be written in 3rd person –this means no personal opinions,

no sentences with “I” “my” or other 1st person text. This is an academic/scientific paper; with the caveat that you will also be including information about your project that pertains to your actions.

Introduction In this section you will identify and describe a community or organization of interest to you, as well as a description of a current trend and how you can use it to benefit this community/organization. In essence, you will be describing what you are about to write about. Community or organization of Interest Describe Identify why this is important to you and why they are open to this Current Trend D