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Marathon Challenge
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Viewing Ideas
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Before Watching
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To give students an appreciation for a marathon distance, have
them plot on a map the route for a marathon race in your area.
If there is no local marathon, have them find a route from the
school to a location that is 26.2 miles away, or determine how
many laps around the school would equal that distance.
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Organize students into four groups and assign each group one of
the following topics to take notes on as they watch: tests done
to measure body fitness, the training regimen, changes in the
runners' bodies over the training period, and the physical and
mental challenges the runners faced. While viewing, pause the
program after the initial introductions, the five-mile run, the
ten-mile run, and the twenty-mile run and ask students to
predict who they think will succeed and why.
After Watching
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Have each group report what it learned while watching. As a
class, discuss what it takes physically and mentally to run a
marathon. What do students think the most difficult challenge
was? What happened to the runners' bodies as they became more
physically fit? Did students' expectations of who would succeed
match the final results? What surprised students the most
regarding how the runners fared?
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Ask students to list what inspired the runners to train for and
complete the marathon and what obstacles they faced. Could
students identify with any of the participants? What inspires
students to exercise or prevents them from exercising?
Brainstorm with students ways they might overcome some of their
obstacles.
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