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🏃 8th Grade · PES3.M8Unit 1: Fitness planning

FITT principle

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🎯 Objective: Students apply frequency, intensity, time and type.

Lesson outline

  1. Explain FITT.
  2. Circuit.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: define intensity.

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.M8

SHAPE America National PE Standards (grade band 6–8)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Design a personal fitness plan
  • Apply FITT principles

✅ 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

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More lessons in “Fitness planning”

  1. FITT principle
  2. Target heart rate
  3. Fitness assessment
  4. Personal fitness plan

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