Mat Lesson 1

Technology in PE Unit
Content Area: Physical Education

Grade Level: 6th - 8th
Time Allotted: 50 minutes
Class Size: 40-50
Lesson # 1
Essential Question: Why is heart rate an important aspect of physical activity? What
information can it provide?
Content Standard(s): 3.5 Participate in moderate to vigorous physical activity a

minimum of four days each week.
1.3 Combine manipulative, locomotor, and nonlocomotor skills into movement patterns.
Prerequisites: Students should be familiar with exercise circuit activity and have an
understanding of what to do at each station as well as how and when to rotate. Students
should be able to perform each different exercise in the circuit using the correct
technique/biomechanics.
Specific Learning Objectives: In this lesson students will be introduced heart rate and
ways in which heart rate can be identified. Students will learn specific ways heart rate
can be checked and practice finding heart rate. Students will learn how heart rate varies
during exercise and learn about different heart rate levels. At the end of this lesson
students should be able to identify at least one why to find heart rate and be able to relate
heart rate percentages to levels of physical activity. Students should also be able to
demonstrate how to find their individual heart rate.
Equipment and Materials:

Small cones x12
Cone sleeves x12
Jump ropes x10
Small hurdles x10
Resistance bands x10
Large cones x4
iPad x1
Electronic timer x1
Speaker x1 (optional)
White board x1
Assessment(s): In this lesson students will be visually assessed through informal

observation as well as through verbal checks for understanding. The teacher will be
assessing student performance of the different exercises in the circuit activity. Teacher
will be looking for correct technique as well as assessing the level of effort. Students will
also be informally assessed on how to take their individual heart rate (HR) at the end of
the class period. Students will visually perform how to take HR. This assessment
evidence should provide the teacher with next steps and what areas may need to be
reviewed.
Academic Language Demands: Vocabulary: heart rate, target heart rate, pulse,
maximum heart rate, resting heart rate, moderate activity, vigorous activity, beats per
minute.
In this lesson students will need to listen receptively to verbal instruction as well as be
able to read written instruction. They will need to productively speak using the academic
language in the lesson.
Accommodations: This lesson will include a combination of visual and verbal

instruction to meet the learning needs of all students. Modeling by the teacher will be
used to address specific needs of EL students. Individual accommodations may be
needed such as allowing students to diagram rather than perform some aspects of the
lesson.
Planned Lesson Instruction: (Note: the first 5 and last 5 minutes of class will be
designated to allow students to dress)
Introduction: (5 minutes)
Class will begin with a short 5 minute warm up.
This warm up should include:
-High knee run in place (15s)
-Butt kickers in place (15s)
-Side to side hops (15s)
-Front to back hops (15s)
-Right leg quad stretch: standing (15s)
-Left leg quad stretch: standing (15s)
-Standing hamstring stretch (30s)
-Two minute warm up run
Body of the lesson: (30 minutes)

After the warm up run have students sit in a centralized location in the gym for
instruction (roll call spots a possibility). Open up instruction with the question what is
heart rate? Allow for student responses. Next provide the definition for what heart rate is
and discuss with the class how heart rate can vary based on activity. Using the white
board display how a resting heart rate is 50% or lower of your maximum heart. Discuss
with the class what a normal heart rate for their age range may be (200bpm) and ask what
50% of that number is. Next display how during moderate activity your heart rate is
generally between 50% and 80% of maximum heart rate. Ask students for an example of
moderate activity. Finally display how during vigorous activity your heart rate is
between 80% and 100% percent of your maximum heart rate. Ask students for an
example of vigorous activity. Next ask the question: How do you think we can find out
what our heart rate is? Allow for student responses. Discuss bpm (beats per minute) and
model how to check your pulse on your wrist. Have students copy the motion and ask if
they can feel their pulse. Have students take their resting HR. Set a 15 second timer and
have students count their number of heartbeats during that time. Instruct students to
multiply that number by 4. (10 minutes)
After heart rate discussion briefly go over the exercises in the circuit activity. The
exercises are listed as followed:
-push ups
-jumping jacks
-band curls
-level one leg lift (3 in off the ground)
-seated hamstring stretch
-jump rope
-mountain climbers
-burpees
-fitness style curl ups
-hurdle jumps
-jog(1.5 laps around gym)
-rest
(See attached materials for the layout of activities in the gym and how to set up)
Next have students break off into the 12 different stations. No more than 10 students per
station. Set the timer to thirty seconds per station with ten second transitions between
stations. Students will rotate through all 12 stations and participate in the circuit for a
total of 15 minutes. Use an audio cue such as a whistle to start the activity and to
transition. (One whistles to begin exercise, two whistles to stop and rotate). You can use
a portable speaker to play music during this circuit time as well. (20 minutes)
Closure: (5 minutes)
Have students sit back in a central location for closure (roll call). Instruct students to take
their heart rate but finding their pulse on their wrist. Set a 15 second timer and have
students count their number of heartbeats during that time. Instruct students to multiply
that number by 4. Open up discussion to what changes they noticed about their heart rate
before and after the circuit activity.
Extending the Lesson/Homework: NA
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Technology in PE Unit

Content Area: Physical Education

Content Standard(s): 3.5 Participate in moderate to vigorous physical activity a

Equipment and Materials:

Assessment(s): In this lesson students will be visually assessed through informal

Accommodations: This lesson will include a combination of visual and verbal

Body of the lesson: (30 minutes)

Extending the Lesson/Homework: NA

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