Lesson Plan Title: Target Heart Rate Zones

Date: October 31, 2017

Subject: Phys. Ed. Grade: Wellness 10 (EAL)

Topic: Heart Rate Essential Question:

Materials:

- Printed off materials for students (recording sheet)

- White board

- Writing utensils

- calculator

Stage 1- Desired Results – you may use student friendly language

What do they need to understand, know, and/or able to do?
In this lesson, students will gain an understanding of heart rate, maximum heart rate, and the benefits of each
heart rate zone. They will discover how to find their heart rate and analyze the changes when participating in
exercise during Phys. Ed. class, as well as be able to calculate the three heart rates zones, maximum heart rate,
and their resting heart rate.

Broad Areas of Learning:

Sense of Self, Community, and Place – By looking at heart rates, students will be able to find the connection
to health and wellness which creates a sense of self. Health can be used in everyday life, and they can use this
knowledge to encourage their family to be healthy and aware of their health.

Cross-Curricular Competencies:
Understand, value, and care for oneself (intellectually, emotionally, physically, and spiritually)

Outcome(s):
W7: Promote sustainable well-being by planning for and engaging in movement activities, alone and with
others, that enhance the health-related (i.e., cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, muscular endurance,
muscular strength, and body composition) and skill-related (i.e., power, agility, speed, reaction time, balance,
and co-ordination) components of fitness.
o Explain the direct correlation between committed engagement in cardiovascular endurance activities
and calorie-burning potential.
PGP Goals:

1.1 the ability to maintain respectful, mutually supportive and equitable professional relationships with
learners, colleagues, families and communities
2.2 Proficiency in the language of instruction

Stage 2- Assessment

Assessment FOR Learning (formative) Assess the students during the learning to help determine next steps.

- Evaluate if the students can explain the vocabulary

- Calculations on Heart Rate sheet – were they able to find answers using their own information

- Could the student find their heart rate?

Assessment OF Learning (summative) Assess the students after learning to evaluate what they have learned.

- Apply knowledge of heart rate while working out in the gym – use higher level thinking to determine
what heart rate zone they are in
Stage 3- Learning Plan

Motivational/Anticipatory Set (introducing topic while engaging the students)

- Begin with finding each student’s heartbeat, and calculating their heart rate. This will help to engage
students by understanding the topic in a kinesthetic form and preparing them for what the lesson will
involve.

Main Procedures/Strategies:

- Hand out “Heart Rate” sheet and read through with students. Discuss words that they do not know
using visuals and actions.

- Have students participate in reading part of the handout to practice literacy skills.

- Demonstrate finding calculations of the different heart rate zones, and have the students work
through using their own data

- Explain how these results can be used in the gym to see certain results

- Continue lesson in the workout room to have a practical experience using heart rate

Adaptations/Differentiation:

- This lesson will be presented differently for the EAL students than a regular Phys. Ed. class. The terms
need to be explained and broken down in greater detail.

Closing of lesson:

- Review the main terms discussed in the lesson

Personal Reflection:
The lesson went fairly well, but some of the concepts were difficult to explain to students with minimal English
and math skills. I would narrow down the material discussed to a few main points rather than a five-page
handout as the lesson took longer than expected. Including other strands of communication would have been
easier to express the material covered.

M. Wilkinson ’16 *Adapted from Understanding by Design (McTighe and Wiggins, 1998)