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🏃 1st Grade · PES3.E3Unit 4: Fitness & healthy hearts

My heart works hard

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🎯 Objective: Students feel their heartbeat before and after activity.

Lesson outline

  1. Find your pulse.
  2. Jumping jacks.
  3. Compare.
  4. Exit: what happened to your heart?

Lesson 1 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

S3.E3

SHAPE America National PE Standards (grade band K–2)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Recognize the heart beats faster during activity
  • Name healthy habits

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

⏲️ Stopwatch👥 Team generator⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Fitness & healthy hearts”

  1. My heart works hard
  2. Fitness stations
  3. Healthy choices

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