Sample Lesson Plan

Fitness Awareness

 

Lesson Focus:  Fitness – Cardiovascular and muscular endurance

Standards/ Maryland Learning Outcomes:

1.3.2.      Identify the health related and fitness components.

1.3.6.      Identify factors that promote or limit physical activity.

Integration:  Draw a picture of a person and place a heart on the correct area of the body.

Objectives:  The students will be able to:

Psychomotor:

·         Sustain moderate physical activity.

Affective:

·         Shows joy and excitement for movement experiences

Cognitive:

·         Identify feelings that result from participation in physical activities.

·         Recognize that physical activity is good for personal well-being.

Materials:   Poster of the human body and functions, paper and crayons.

Warm-Up: (5 min.)

Head rolls – right/left

Shoulder rolls

Arm circles – forward/backwards

Trunk rotations – forward, right side, backwards, left side, and repeat.

Quads stretch – hold onto wall, grab foot behind body and pull upward.

Toe reaches – reach and count to 10

Ankle stretch – rise up on tippy toe

Run in place 30 sec.

Introductory Activity: (10 min.) – Have students feel for their heart. Ask them how does it feel, is it beating fast or slow? Ask them do they know what the heart does for the body? Talk about this special heart and the importance it is to living a healthy life.

1. Single line formation in the middle of the gym. Student spread out by extending their arms out in front not to touch the person in front of them. On signal, students will slide-step to the right wall, then the left.
2. Run around the gym once, then do ten sit-ups, and go to the circle and sit pretzel style.

Repeat question, How is your heart beating now ? Are you breathing heavier?

3.      Quickly skip to one end of the gym, jump up and down 5 times in a row and return to the circle to sit.

How are your legs feeling, tried?  Explain how the heart is pumping the blood to your leg muscles.

4. Touch your nose on all four walls, crab walk to the circle and touch your elbow on the line, bear walk to 2 different black lines, and return to the circle line.

How do your arms feel?

Let’s place our hand on our heart. What is it doing now? Is your breathing getting heavier?

Cool-Down Activity:(5 min.)

Jog around the gym 2 times

Walk to the front of the gym, then the back.

Repeat the Warm-Up stretches

Closing Activity: (10 min.)

Open discussion with visuals to follow-up the lesson about the heart and cardiovascular system. Explain factors that could damage the heart: Eating too much junk food, smoking, drugs, not exercising.

Have the students draw to express what they have learned.

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