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🏃 3rd Grade · PES3.E3Unit 1: Fitness components

Five components of fitness

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🎯 Objective: Students describe cardio endurance, strength, endurance, flexibility and body composition.

Lesson outline

  1. Stations by component.
  2. Rotate.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: name three.

Lesson 1 of 4 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 3–5)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe the five components of fitness
  • Set a personal fitness goal

✅ 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 components”

  1. Five components of fitness
  2. Heart rate zones
  3. Fitness testing
  4. Personal goal

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