Abstract
The study aimed to plan, apply and evaluate the teaching unit “weight training” to a class of 3rd year high school night of a public school of Maringá-PR. It's an experience report with 19 students, in three stages: “presentations and initial investigations” with the presentation of the project and implementation of the initial questionnaire, “get hands dirty” application of a teaching unit consists in 10 classes based on the curriculum guidelines of basic education in the State of Paraná and “evaluating actions” by means of a final questionnaire. It was concluded that students show interest and motivation in practicing weight training at extracurricular environment and in studying and experiencing new contents in Physical Education lessons from the experience.
KEYWORDS
Physical education; Teaching unit; Weight lifting; High school night