KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

LESSON PLAN FORMAT

Teacher Candidate:
Cooperating Teacher:
Group Size:

20

Emily Ash and Kari Kurtz Date:

Dr. Varano
Allotted Time

Coop. Initials

November 14, 2014

K.V.

Grade Level 3rd

Subject or Topic: Circulatory System- Healthy with fitness Section

STANDARD: 10.4.C Know and recognize changes in body responses during moderatevigorous activity.

I. Performance Objectives (Learning Outcomes): Students will display knowledge of

heart rate and pulse by completing the exercise worksheet.

II. Instructional Materials

a. Exercise recording worksheet, one per student (see attachment)
b. Pencil
c. Activity IQ worksheet, one per student (see attachment)
d. The Busy Body Book: A Kids Guide to Fitness by: Lizzy Rockwell
e. Stopwatch Website
f. Pulse Rate Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0iGwD_EEXI

III. Subject Matter/Content (prerequisite skills, key vocabulary, big idea, outline of
additional content)
A. Prerequisite skills
1. The heart works better when healthier food is chosen.
B. Key Vocabulary
1. Pulse
2. Warming up
3. Cool Down
4. Heart Rate
C. Big Idea
1. Physical Activity helps keep the heart healthy.

D. Additional content
1. N/A
IV. Implementation
A. Introduction
1. Have different exercise equipment laid out on the front table for the
students to see as they are coming into class. (jump rope, sneakers, basketball)
2. Let the students guess why the selected items are displayed in the front of
the room and how it may connect to what they will learn today.
3. Pass out the Activity IQ worksheet and have each student complete the
questions.
4. Have the students with a partner discuss the answers and why they chose
what they did.
5. As a group, discuss the correct answers.

B. Development
1. Read The Busy Body Book: A Kids Guide to Fitness
2. Ask the children to discuss, what aerobic exercise is and how much is
needed each day? (exercise that makes the heart and lungs work harder)
3. Next, ask the children what should be done before engaging in vigorous
physical activity? (Warming-Up, Jogging, stretching, and walking all helps
the body be prepared for the activity)
4. Finally, ask the children what should be done after engaging in vigorous
activity? (Cool Down, gradually slowing down from physical activity)
5. Play the Pulse Rate Video to show students how to check their pulse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0iGwD_EEXI
6. Break the students up into four groups.
7. Explain what they are to do at each center.
7. Each group of students will start at a different center.
8. Let the children know that they will do the activity at the station for one
minute.
9. Set the stopwatch on the smart board to one minute.
10. Teacher will reset the stopwatch for another minute to time their heart
rate.
11. After the minute is up, the teacher will tell the students to time their heart
rate for one minute.
12. Record heart rate. (see attached)
13. Next, have the children engage in 4 other stations and record their heart
rate.
14. Once stations are all completed, the students will fill out the bottom of the
worksheet by answering the questions.

C. Closure

1. Have the students discuss what they learned about heart rate and staying
healthy. Explain the differences that they shouldve noticed by engaging in all the
different exercises. Your heart rate goes up because your breathing needs to
increase in order to get more oxygen to into your blood.
2. Have each student say one thing they will do to improve their health.
D. Accommodations/Differentiation
LA will be supplied a pencil grip for this lesson.

E. Assessment/Evaluation Plan
1. Formative- Activity Stations Worksheet
2. Summative- There is no summative assessment for this lesson

V. Reflective Response
A. Report of Student Performance in Terms of Stated Objectives (Reflection on
student performance written after lesson is taught, includes remediation for
students who fail to meet acceptable level of achievement)

Remediation Plan

B. Personal Reflection (Questions written before lesson is taught. Reflective

answers to question recorded after lesson is taught)
1. How can this lesson be altered or improved?
2. Do the students understand the importance of physical activity?

3. Are the activities in this lesson effective enough to gain adequate

understanding for the students?

VI. Resources (in APA format)

Activity IQ. (2014, September 15). Retrieved October 15, 2014, from American Heart
Association:
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Educator/FortheClassroom/ElementaryLesson
Plans/Elementary-Lesson-Plans_UCM_001258_Article.jsp
Dowshen, S. (2013, January). Your heart and Circulatory System. Retrieved October 15,
2014, from Kids Health: http://kidshealth.org/
How can you stay fit? (2014, September 15). Retrieved October 15, 2014, from
http://kidshealth.org/
How can you stay fit? (2014, September 15). Retrieved October 15, 2014, from American
Heart Association:
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Educator/FortheClassroom/ElementaryLesson
Plans/Elementary-Lesson-Plans_UCM_001258_Article.jsp
How does physical exercise help you? (2014, September 15). Retrieved October 15,
2014, from American Heart Association:
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Educator/FortheClassroom/ElementaryLesson
Plans/Elementary-Lesson-Plans_UCM_001258_Article.jsp