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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.
Students will learn how to calculate their maximum heart rate and target heart rate zone. Students will graph their heart rates while participating in a variety of physical activities.
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.
This resource includes three high-school-level physical education worksheets that could be used as a lesson (or practical review session). These will help to develop the students' understanding of the training principles of specificity and overload, stages of warm-up, and interval training.
This activity is designed for students to understand the importance of a healthy, active lifestyle. Worksheets that link to PowerPoints for students to complete and make notes are attached. Also attached is a homework sheet that can be used for the section which will test the students' knowledge and understanding of healthy active lifestyles.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
This resource provides an interactive guide to engage, explore, apply, and reflect on heart rate. Resting and target heart rate activities are included in addition to guiding application questions for each.
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.
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.