Lesson Plan Title: Heart Rate and Smart Goals for Fitness
Performance Objective:
- Given the formula to calculate Target Heart Rate Zone, calculate your Target Heart Rate Zone without help.
- Reflect on your current cardiorespiratory endurance and distinguish 2 realistic fitness goals base on the Smart Goal acronym.
Resources or Materials Needed: Students need their physical education uniforms, athletic shoes, and computers with internet access. The teacher needs the overhead projector, laptop, and internet access.
Time: 1 hour
Step 1: Pre-Instructional Activities: Locker room, squad lines, warm up lines, Pe Shake App
Step 2: Content Presentation: Direct Instruction: Tell the students that they will be learning about their heart rate.
Maximum Heart Rate: 220 – age
Target Heart Rate Zone: 50% to 85% of Maximum Heart Rate
MHR X .5 = Low End of Target Heart Rate Zone
MHR X .85 = High End of Target Heart Rate Zone
Then they will be reflecting on their current cardiorespiratory endurance and writing smart goals to improve their cardiorespiratory endurance. “SMART acronym was first written down in November 1981 in Spokane, Washington by George T. Doran” (Doran, 1981).
- Specific: target a specific area for improvement.
- Measurable: quantify, or at least suggest, an indicator of progress.
- Assignable: specify who will do it.
- Realistic: state what results can realistically be achieved given available resources.
- Time-related: specify when the result can be achieved.
Step 3: Learner Participation: The teacher will walk the students through the process of calculating their MHR and THRZ. After the lesson ends, the students will take a quiz on Quizizz. Then the teacher will teach the student how to write smart goals. After the lesson is given, the students will work on their laptops to and complete the smart goal worksheet provided for them via Google Classroom. After the instruction, teacher will roam around the room and give the students feedback.
Step 4: Assessment: Students will be formatively assessed on their Quizizz results. Students will be formatively assessed on whether their fitness goals follow the smart goals acronym.
PDF of Quiz from Quizizz (See Appendix B).
Step 5: Follow-Through Activities: Students are encouraged to begin working on their goals that day. They are encouraged to track their progress and choose a “mentor” to touch base with about their goals on a weekly basis. The mentor should be a parent, sibling, relative, friend, etc.
Lesson Plan Summary: The students will line up in the hall and wait for directions to enter the locker room. Once the students are in the locker room, they get dressed into their physical education uniforms and athletic shoes. After getting dressed, the students line up in the locker room and wait for directions to enter the gym. Once the students enter the gym, they sit in squad lines while the teacher takes attendance. After attendance, the teacher instructs the students to go to their warm up lines and the teacher picks a captain. The captain for the day picks a game on the Pe Shape App and it explains it to the class. After warm ups are complete, the captain directs the class to sit near the white board. The teacher will guide the students through the process of calculating their MHR and their THRZ. The students will practice the formulas with various ages provided by the teacher. After the lesson, the students will take a quiz on Quizizz. The teacher will then guide the students through writing smart goals. The students will write two smart goals. Once the class is finished, the captain will lead the class through the cool down exercises. After the cool down, the students are instructed to go into the locker room and get dressed in their school uniform. Once finished, they wait for the teacher to dismiss them.