Jean Collado

Incorporating The Wii System Into Our P.E Curriculum

• The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006.

• This console is different from all the other gaming systems because it works by our own body motions.

• The Wii console involves a lot of active movement, which are fun and exciting for young children and adults.

• Most of the games give you the feeling of playing your favorite sports and activities, in which your own body movements are used control the game.

The Wii

1.Remotes

2.Nunchuks

3.Wii Games

4.Wii Fit

Important Wii Features

•The Wii Remote controller is the heart of the motion gaming experience on your Wii console.

• It responds to motion and rotation for enhanced control as you swing, swipe, thrust, or turn the controller.

•Your gaming experience will become more active and realistic than you ever thought possible with the wii remote.

•Each console comes with a remote.

Wii Remotes

•Hook the Nunchuk accessory up to your Wii Remote for even more flexibility in compatible games.

•The Nunchuk has similar motion-sensing technology, along with two buttons and a Control Stick.

•This allows you to move characters around while performing more specific and complex actions with the Wii Remote Plus controller.

• Each console comes with a Nunchuk as well

Wii Nunchuks

• There are a lot of fun Wii games that can also promote physical activity such as Wii Sports, which includes • Boxing, Tennis, Bowling, and Golf

• There is also Wii Sports Resorts which includes • Air Sports, Archery, Basketball, Bowling, Canoeing , Cycling ,

Frisbee, Golf , Power Cruising , Swordplay, Table Tennis and Wakeboarding

• Another fun game is the Wii Just Dance Video game which involves a lot of movement and dancing as well as burning calories while having a great time.

• There are also games specifically for working out which mainly focus on our 5 fitness components and most of our skill-related components. • These games are EA Active 1 and 2

• EA Training Camp

Wii Games

• Wii Fit requires the Wii Balance Board ,a unique platform that the player must stands on while they play

• Similar to a bathroom scale, the Wii Balance Board is capable of measuring a person's weight, but is also able to detect the person's center of balance.

• Wii Fit contains more than 40 activities designed to engage the player in physical exercise, which consist of • yoga poses,

• strength training,

• aerobics,

• balance games.

• Most activities generally focus on improving posture and being active.

Wii Fit

• Incorporating the Wii console would benefit our students both in the short term and long term.

Short term • It will provide every student with an equal opportunity to

succeed. ( the bigger kid doesn’t always win)

• Great alternative for those students who don’t enjoy working out in P.E• Can become an easy and fun way to prepared for physical fitness

tests

• Students will have a lot of fun playing it and burn calories at the same time.

Long Term • The Wii is a lifetime activity that students can take with

them outside of school and do for the rest of their lives.

How It Would Benefits Our Students

• The Wii console can benefit us by providing our teachers with a new way of teaching. • Teachers would be able to develop alternative lesson plans for

their students to stay interested in their course and focused

• This will also force all of our teachers to become more involved with technology.

• Our world is driven more and more with technology so our teacher’s must begin to adapt and include it in their lesson to stay up to date.

• Teachers would be able to incorporate physical education even on rainy days • Instead of packing the gymnasium with 100 students, we

could take some students into a classroom and have an organized active lesson with the Wii

How Can It Benefit Our School

•As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.

•Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others.

•As of February 2012, the Wii leads the generation over the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in worldwide sales,

•in December 2009 broke the record for best-selling console in a single month in the United States

Competitors

• The Wii Console Including the Wii sport video game, a remote, as well a nunchuk is $149.99 and it’s only getting cheaper.

• The Wii fit plus kit which includes the Wii Fit game, and the Wii fit board is $99.99

• Most games average from 19.99 to 49.99

• You can purchase Wii fit board individually with a cover for about 24.99

• If you have a class of about 20 students. You total cost would be around $800• For 20 boards, game console, and a

game.

You only need one game console and a big screen for it to function within your entire class

Total Cost

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School Using The Wii Fit System