Content Area: Health and Physical Education

 

Index: 2.6C Grade 6 CPI 3

 

Standard: 2.6 - Fitness

 

Strand: C -   Achieving and Assessing Fitness

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 3 -  The student will monitor physiological indicators before, during, and after exercise.

 

Grade: 6

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        SWEATSHOP CHALLENGE - Brainstorm physiological indicators that change during exercise (e.g., heart rate, respiratory rate, sweating, body temperature, perceived exertion or effort). Write the ideas on the board, creating a column for each item. For the next 20 minutes, students move through a teacher-designed obstacle course, stopping for a one minute rest at five minute intervals. After students have completed the activity, return to the indicators listed on the board. As students share the changes they experienced, write their comments in the appropriate column.

Variation: Provide each student with a chart, similar to the one below. During each section of the activity, students record changes. Discuss the results.

 

 

 

·        KNOW YOUR BODY - Set up a small, defined space, 40 yards square and marked by cones. Students take their resting pulse rate and record it, then walk around the cones at a medium pace for one minute. On signal, students take their pulse and record. After a 30-second rest, students take and record a second recovery pulse rate. Students jog around the cones at a medium pace for one minute and repeat the pulse taking and recording. Finally, students run the circuit for one minute at a fast pace and take their pulse rate immediately and at 30 seconds and record. Students graph the pulse rates and relate the results to the type of activity being performed. Students share their graphs and discuss the results.