1. Exercise for Life
Design a Fitness flyer, advertisement, newsletter or brochure with the intent to
sell the concept of regular exercise to your peers: your project should be designed
to convince your peers to exercise. Project will include each of the 5 components
of fitness, benefits of exercise and how to start and maintain your regular
exercise.
Design Layout:
Flyer, advertisement, newsletter or brochure (double sided A4)
Be sure to include PICTURES/IMAGES/DRAWINGS.
Make your project attractive, neat, and well organized!
Getting started: Windows Publisher /use the following steps:
**Note: If you are using a MAC computer at home you may choose MAC pages.
Audience: Kids your age. Assume the kids who read your brochure do not know anything
about exercise!
Purpose: Convincing people our age why they need to exercise
What information does my project need to have in it?
1. Describe the 5 components of fitness and explain them in a creative
way like drawing or pictures
2. 3-4 benefits of exercise
3. The recommended amount of exercise for your age
4. 3 LONG term effects that could happen to your body if you do not exercise
5. fun exercises you can do
6. Tips for getting started with your exercise plan
7. Ways you can make exercise a regular habit/action plan
8. 1-2 Fun Facts/ did you know?
BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE BACK
● MLA FORMAT
● 3 SOURCES: textbook, websites and library materials
Websites to use:
1. Kids Health http://kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness/
2. American Heart Assoc. http://americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3028650
3. Brain Pop http://www.brainpop.com/
4. Yahooligans http://yahooligans.com
5. Textbook
Wellness 7 Why Exercise? Fitness Brochure Rubric
Criteria – 30
points
A
A-
B+ B
B-
C+ C
C-
D+ D
D-
Comments/
Marks

2. Exemplary Proficient Developing Emerging
Creativity (10)
● Design
● Organization
● Neatness
● Style
● Use of visuals
● -Design of
the
brochure is
extremely
eye-
catching
● -Very well
organized
and neatly
done
● -Shows
imagination
, insight
and style
● -Makes
excellent
use of
pictures,
slogans,
facts and
figures
● -Design of
the brochure
is eye-
catching
● -Organized
and neatly
done
● -Shows signs
of style
● -Makes good
use of
pictures,
slogans, facts
and figures
● -Design of the
brochure
needs more
thought
● -Some signs
of
organization
and neatness
● -Needs to
refer to
pictures,
slogans, facts
and figures
● -Design of the
brochure is
rushed and
incomplete
● -Lacking
organization and
neatness
● -Needs to include
more pictures,
slogans, facts
and figures
Self Peer
Teacher
Content (10)
● Requirements
● Detail
● Explanation
● -Exceeded
all of the
requiremen
ts
● -The
content is
detailed,
well
researched
and fully
explained
● -All of the
requirements
have been
met
● -The content
is detailed
and fully
explained
● -Some of the
requirements
have been
met
● -The content
is complete
with some
explanation
● -Few of the
requirements
have been met
● -The content is
brief and lacking
explanation
Relevant
message &
language (5)
● Relevance for
Teenagers
● It clearly
displays a
positive
exercise
message.
● Awareness of
the purpose
● -Excellent
use of
appeal to
teenage
audience
and
decision
making
skills.
● - Fun and
energetic
language
● -The
audience is
left with a
clear
understandi
ng of the
benefits of
exercise as
well the
dangers of
a sedentary
lifestyle.
● -Good use of
appeal to
teenage
audience and
decision
making skills.
● -Fun and
energetic
language
● -The
audience is
left with a
clear
understandin
g of the
benefits of
exercise as
well the
dangers of a
sedentary
lifestyle.
● -Use of appeal
to teenage
audience and
decision
making skills.
● -Language
relevant for
teenagers
needs
development
● A positive
exercise
message is
present
● -Needs to
develop appeal
to teenage
audience and
decision making
skills.
● -A positive
exercise
message is
present

3. ● -Very
persuasive
and
appealing
Bibliography
(5)
● Spelling
● Punctuation
● Grammar
● Bibliography
● -No
spelling/pu
nctuation/g
rammatical
errors
● -Correctly
formatted
bibliograph
y
● -Variety of
resources
used (3-5)
● -Few
spelling/punc
tuation/
● grammatical
errors
● -Correctly
formatted
bibliography
● Variety of
resources
used (0-3
● -Some
spelling/punct
uation/
● grammatical
errors
-Bibliography present
● -Content is not
paraphrased very
well
● -Many
spelling/punctuat
ion/
● grammatical
errors
Grade__________
-Bibliography not present