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The purpose of this activity is to help students gain an understanding of what happens to their heart rate when they perform activities to develop the six components of skill-related fitness. Students will perform each activity as fast and as many times as they can for 30 seconds. Using their heart rate monitor, they will record their heart rate before and immediately after the activity.
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Marathon runners must run much greater distances than their track-and-field counterparts, needing to start slow and speed up towards the end. This experiment will help you to discover why.
Creative Mode Fitness is a fun and vigorously active way to teach students critical fitness concepts and basic fitness planning. It’s designed to be used with heart rate monitor technology—preferably a team heart rate monitoring system, such as Polar GoFit.
The main objective of this module is to teach students fundamental fitness concepts through fun and vigorously active learning activities. Students will produce safe and appropriate training routines in a group setting, as well as personal Tabata routines that they can perform safely at home.
The purpose of this activity is to facilitate the development and maintenance of physical fitness by using fitness walking as the activity and participate in the "mixed up" activity to understand that time, force, and flow impact heart rate.
In this book, the teacher will receive tips for using technology with students to motivate them towards an active lifestyle. The tips are designed to give the teacher ideas on how to use the information that heart rate monitors and activity monitors provide for students of any age.
This resource is a video of a wonderful high school Physical Education circuit training lesson. Students are participating in a variety of activities and checking their heart rates.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
Teaching rates of perceived exertion and pacing/adjusting to keep heart rate in the target zone is made possible in one activity. If technology (e.g., pedometer, heart rate monitor) is available to self-monitor aerobic intensity that will add another standard covered on this lesson but is not necessary to complete this activity.
This activity can be adapted to teach a variety of content for MS and HS in Standards 3 and 4.
You may also access cards and activity plans in a Word or PDF format on the OpenPsyEd.org website in the HS Plug and Play under the heading Module Documents.
