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Unit Title: How Does Your Heart Rate?

Name: Ashley Vierra

Content Area: Physical Education

Grade Level: 7th Grade

CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):

3.6 Explain the effects of physical activity on heart rate during exercise, during the recovery phase, and when the body is at rest.

Big Ideas:
Big Ideas:
1. Heart Rate and Exercise Understanding why knowing your heart rate during exercise is an important. Students will need to know what heart rate tells about
exercise intensity and how that can affect a fitness program. Understanding how heart rate will change with a change of exercise intensity.
2. Calculating Heart Rate Accurately calculating resting heart rate, maximum heart rate, and target heart rate range and what it means in terms of health and
exercise.
3. How does Heart Rate affect our lives Understanding why it is important we know our heart rate and applying it to what we do in our everyday lives.

Essential Questions:
1. What is the importance of knowing your heart rate when exercising?
2. How will your heart rate change during different types of exercise compared to at rest?
3. Why is it beneficial to know your heart rate?
4. What will our heart rate tell us about the exercise we are doing?
5. How can we change an exercise program to tailor to a heart rate that is too high during exercise? Too low?


Unit Goals and Objectives:
Students will:

Identify and explain two reasons why knowing heart rate during exercise is important.

Individually determine his or her resting heart rate, maximum heart rate, and target heart rate range.

Evaluate his or her pulse at different levels of activity with 100% accuracy and analyze results on a bar or line graph.

Assess and make recommendations to an exercise program from information provided on heart rate.

Research four topics related to the heart on the American Heart Association Website.

Collaborate with a partner to create a poster about Heart Rate and Exercise
Unit Summary:
This Unit will provide information to students about heart rate relating to exercise. In prior lessons students have learned about creating fitness programs and will continue
to modify these programs with taking into consideration heart rate. Students will be introduced to terms such as resting heart rate, maximum heart rate, and target heart
rate range. Students will also learn how to calculate each of these and analyze what the numbers they have calculate mean and what that means for an exercise program.
Students will also participate in many different activities that discuss other topics related to heart rate. Students will be giving various opportunities to demonstrate their
knowledge individually, in small groups, and during assessments. Students will also learn about why heart rate is important in his or her live and not just when exercising.



Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level:
KWL Chart
The KWL Chart will be used as an anticipatory activity
to access students prior knowledge of heart rate. It is
important for the teacher to understand the prior
knowledge of students to ensure that new concepts will
be comprehended. For example, if students have little
or no prior knowledge of resting heart rate and target
heart rate the teacher will need to make sure these
concepts are covered thoroughly before continuing
with the lesson. If the students already know about
resting heart rate and target heart rate the teacher can
modify the lesson plan and skip a few steps if
necessary.

Formative:

Group Discussion and Questioning

Throughout the teacher lecture small group and
partner discussion will take place in order for students
to express their ideas and understanding of the topic.
The teacher will be visiting groups and partners to
monitor student progress and use questioning if
necessary to guide students or lead students in
discussion. During activities such as the KWL Chart and
the Teacher Lecture the lesson will be stopped to allow
students to work with partners or in small groups to
discuss their findings or ideas. This will allow for
students to speak up if they are shy in front of a large
group setting and also allow for peer feedback.

Whiteboard Review
The whiteboard review activity allows the teacher to
ask questions to the entire class but allow students to
answer individually. The teacher will ask a question
and students will each have a whiteboard and dry erase
marker. The students will respond the question and
show his or her whiteboard to the teacher. This is a
quick and easy way for the teacher to monitor progress
and mastery of content. This activity will be
particularly useful in the teacher lecture. During the
various questions asked throughout the lecture
students will be prompted to write their responses on
his or her whiteboard. This will quickly give the teacher
an idea on whether to continue with the lecture or slow
down.

Observations
The teacher will use visual observations in order to
monitor progress of students. The teacher will record
any observations her or she makes throughout the
lesson for each student on current understanding in
reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Main topics

Summative:
Quiz
The teacher will use the quiz to see whether students
have mastered the content that they have already
covered in the lesson. The quiz will be covering
information from two assignments. The results of the
quiz will allow the teacher to choose areas that need
review.

Posters

As part of a summative assessment students will be
asked to work in partners to create a poster on heart
rate relating to exercise. Students will be expected to
follow a rubric and not only use writing on their
posters but pictures and visuals as well.

KWL Chart Journal Entry

The last portion of the KWL chart is typically the
portion titled what did you learn? Instead of having
students fill out this portion on his or her KWL chart
the teacher will assign students to write a journal entry
on what information they learned from the lesson.
Students will be asked to use evidence from their
guided notes or any other notes that were taken during
class activities.
By the end of the various activities the students should
have a firm grasp on the big ideas such as:
-
What is the importance of heart rate when
exercising?
-
How will heart rate change during exercise
compared to at rest?
-
Why is it beneficial to know your heart rate?
-
Describe how to create a workout program
based off of an individuals heart rate.

that students will be observed on are: resting heart

rate, target heart rate range, exercise related to heart
rate, and ability to recommend and analyze exercise
given individual heart rate.

Lesson 1
Student Learning Objective:
Students will identify and
explain two reasons why
knowing heart rate when
exercising is important.

Students will individually
determine his or her heart
resting heart rate, maximum
heart rate, and target heart
rate range.

Students will evaluate their
pulse at different levels of
activity with 100% accuracy
and analyze results on a bar
or line graph.

Acceptable Evidence:

Student can identify why
heart rate during exercise is
important in writing or orally
in discussion and also
provide reasoning.

Student will complete How
Does Your Heart Rate?
worksheet accompanied by a
line or bar graph.

Student will discuss in small
groups or with partner big
ideas throughout teacher
lecture

Student will respond
correctly when doing the
Whiteboard Review activity.

Instructional Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction

Lesson Activities:

Lesson 1 will introduce the unit of Heart Rate and Exercise to students. Various
activities will be completed including assessments, lecture, and classroom
activities.

KWL Chart (Entry-Level Assessment)
The KWL Chart is used as an entry-level assessment to activate students prior
knowledge of the subject. Students will be asked to complete the first two
columns of the KWL Chart which include the What do I already know and What
do I want to learn portions. Students will record information they already know
about heart rate and what they would like to learn that they do not yet know. This
will also provide the teacher with information on how to continue with the lesson
plan and whether or not the teacher may need to focus more specifically on
certain topics.

Teacher Lecture
The teacher lecture will provide students with information on heart rate and
exercise. The main ideas that are covered in the teacher lecture are: how heart
rate affects exercise, how to calculate resting heart rate, target heart rate range,
and maximum heart rate, and why heart rate is important in our lives. Along with
the lecture students will be taking notes in unison with the presentation. Students
will be given a copy of guided notes that will help them record important
information throughout the lecture.

Group Discussion (Progress Monitoring)
Throughout the lecture students will periodically be asked to stop and discuss
with a partner or small group information that is being covered in the lecture.
This allows for students to express his or her ideas to peers and receive feedback.
The teacher will circle the room to observe and listen in on conversations
throughout the group discussions.

Whiteboard Review (Progress Monitoring)
Also throughout the teacher lecture students will participate in the whiteboard
review. During the teacher lecture the teacher will stop to ask a question and
students will be asked to respond on his or her whiteboard. Each student receives
a whiteboard and will respond to the question on the whiteboard and flip it so the
teacher can see the answer. This allows the teacher to gauge whether the students
are grasping the information that is being taught and gives the teacher an idea on
whether or not to move on with the lesson or continue and take more time on

certain areas of the lesson.

How Does Your Heart Rate Activity
Students will complete an activity that will ask them to record their heart rate
during different exercises. The activity will require the students to record their
heart rate during rest, walking in place (1 min), jumping jacks (1 min), and chair
steps (1 minute). The students will record their pulse for 10 seconds after
completing the one-minute of exercise. Next, students will multiply the number
they recorded by six in order to get their pulse rate for a minute. After all
exercises are complete and students have recorded all their numbers they must
create a bar graph or line graph using the online tool on the NCES Kids Zone
Website.

Lesson 2
Student Learning Objective:
Students will assess and
make recommendations to an
exercise program from
information provided
concerning heart rate.

Students will accurately
identify 8 out of 10 labels
from the heart diagram.

Acceptable Evidence:
Students will complete
Webercise and record correct
information from all the
sources.

Students will score with an
80% or higher grade on the
quiz.

Students will provide and
share valuable information
during group discussions and
partner work.

Instructional Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction

Lesson Activities:

Webercise
Students will complete the Webercise by navigating to various website provided
on the Webercise. Students will be responsible for visiting each website and
collecting information in order to fill out the Webercise. Students must complete
all pages of Webercise.

Group Discussion (Progress Monitoring)
Students will bring his or her completed Webercise to class. Students will be
grouped into small groups of three people per group. Students will be discussing
their answers to the last page of the Webercise. The last page consists of various
questions asking students to change an exercise program with given information
of an individuals heart rate. It also asked students to make recommendations for
types of exercises this individual can do. Students will go over their answers in the
small group discussion while the teacher circles to the room to listen and discuss.

Quiz (Summative Assessment)
Students will be taking an online quiz after completing the Webercise that will
cover information from Lesson 1 and 2. The students will go to the Quiz Star
website and login to take the quiz. The students quiz results will be sent directly
to the teachers account.
Login Information:
Username: EDSC304
PW: student

Acceptable Evidence:
Student will create a well-
organized concept map
following the checklist

Instructional Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration

Lesson Activities:
Research topics on American Heart Association
Students will be researching the American Heart Association website. Students
will be responsible for searching for topics related to heart rate. Students will

Lesson 3
Student Learning Objective:
Students will research the
American Heart Association
and investigate four topics

related to heart rate.

Students will collaborate with
a partner to create a Heart
Rate and Exercise Poster
highlighting four big ideas
that were learned from the
unit.

provided.

Students will create a poster
with a partner showcasing
Heart Rate and Exercise

Students will complete a KWL
Chart recording what they
have learned from the
lesson.

Presentation
Organization
Interaction

identify four different topics related to heart rate and read through the articles.
Students will then identify at least three main ideas taken from each article.

Concept Map
From the information gathered from research on the American Heart Association
website students will create a concept map using the Bubbl website. Students will
portray the four topics and three main ideas on the concept map. The students
will need to ensure that all information is accurate and use correct grammar and
spelling. Also the concept map should be well organized so that it can easily be
navigated. Remind students that they should be able to present this information to
another individual if need be therefore it is important that understand all the
information from his or her concept map.
Login Information:
Username: vierrape
Password: student

Heart Rate Poster (Summative Assessment)
Students will be paired with another student in class to create a poster. The poster
is going to illustrate and explain four big ideas relating to Heart Rate and Exercise
that was learned throughout the unit. The posters should be well organized with
correct information and also appealing to the eye. Students will present posters to
the class as a summative project at the end of the unit.

KWL Chart (Summative Assessment)
Students will now fill out the last portion of the KWL Chart, which allows them to
record what they have learned in the unit. Students will need to identify a
minimum of four bullet points in this column. Students will discuss the results of
the KWL chart with a partner after completing it.

Unit Resources:
YOU: The Owners Manual for Teens: A Guide to a Healthy Body and Happy Life By: Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz
Health for Life With Web Resources By Karen McConnell and Charles Corbin
Garmin Heart Rate Monitor - http://www.amazon.com/Garmin-010-10997-00-Heart-Rate-Monitor/dp/B000UOD5QM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1425141339&sr=8-
2&keywords=heart+rate+monitor+device
Heartbeat Plus Application - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/heartbeat-plus/id905741780?mt=8
Heart Zones PE Application- https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/heart-zones-pe/id899256296?mt=8
Explore the Heart in 3D Application - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/explore-the-heart-in-3d/id520392909?mt=8

Useful Websites:
Science Kids Learn about the human body, science, technology
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz
NCES Kids Zone students will use this website to create a bar or line graph for the How Does Your Heart Rate Activity.
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/
American Heart Association A great website with tons of information on the heart. This website will also be used when creating the concept map
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/
Pediatrics (HR for Children) provides great information about heart rate pertaining specifically to children and teens.
http://pediatrics.about.com/od/pediatricadvice/a/Normal-Pulse-Rates-For-Kids.htm

Exercise Intensity and Heart Rate This webpage discusses the relation of exercise intensity with heart rate
http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/fitness/in-depth/exercise-intensity/art-20046887?pg=2
LiveStrong Provides a great deal of information about healthy living
http://www.livestrong.com/sscat/heart-rate/