LESSON PLAN

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https://lovepe.me/2013/02/15/artery-avengers-teaching-heart-health-to-primary-grades/

Unit: Heart Health Date: varies based on class Standard: SHAPE America S1.E2.,
S1.E13&14., S1.E24.,
S3.E3., S5.E1.
Lesson Focus: ways to keep a heart healthy Grade: 3-5 Facility/Equipment:
locomotor skills 4 hula hoops
track heart rate bean bags
throwing poly spots
blocking yarn balls
Technology Used: none
Sequence: Day 2

Lesson Intro (What will you say to get the students’ attention, communicate the lesson objectives, and motivate students
to achieve them?):
Today we are continuing to learn more about our hearts. The activities that we will do are going to allow you to learn
about what your heart needs, wants, and how parts of it work.

Learning Objectives Assessment

Each objective should include: a) Performance (the For each objective include your procedure for
knowledge or ability the learner will gain as a result of this determining whether objectives have been met:
lesson), b) Conditions (under which the learner will
perform, and c) Criterion (the level of performance
considered acceptable):
1. name the 3 important things that keep the heart healthy
 1. ask questions for understanding after explaining and at
the end of class
2. know what arteries are and also how fat can clog them 2. ask questions at the end of class to check for
but also that some fat can be good for you understanding
3. throw and toss with correct form 3. informal observation
4. find carotid artery & check pulse after participation 4. informal observation and guidance
Safety considerations and/or modifications for special needs students:
-tell students to be aware of their personal space because if they swing to block a ball, they could hit someone
-even if they are throwing they could hit someone and hurt themselves or a classmate 

Learning Activities
Time Formation Activity Transitions; Comments
3 min running around warm up jog stop the music and call
basketball court students to sit by the table
for instruction

5 min sitting by table instruction & demonstration stand up, and when the
-February helpers will show an example of how to play the
 music starts you can begin
activity to play the game
-we will review 3 ways to keep the heart healthy

8-10 within basketball Heart Power Tag (see attached) stop the music and have the
min court students come sit by the
table again for instruction
and demonstration for the
2nd activity

5 min sitting by table instruction & demonstration when the music starts the
-February helpers are “group leaders” for each quadrant in the
 students may start playing
gym
-February helpers will get 3 hula hoops for their group to put in

their quadrant
-Each student should get a poly spot before they go to their quadrant
-I will count off students 1-4 and they will go to the quadrant that was

assigned that number
-I will spread out equipment equally to each quadrant

8-10 within basketball Artery Avengers (see attached) stop the music and reflect
min court in quadrants on what they learned about
the heart. then line up to
leave

Closure (What will you say and do to help students recall the lesson objectives and recognize what they’ve learned? How
will you meet one or more of the following goals: review, accountability, cool-down, recognition, interpersonal
communication, future plans?):
will you meet one or more of the following goals: review, accountability, cool-down, recognition, interpersonal
communication, future plans?):
What are the three things we mentioned in the first activity that keep your heart healthy? What are some things that you do
to keep your heart healthy? From the second activity, what did the hula hoops represent? And what can get clogged in
arteries if you are not healthy? Since we are talking about are heart… Let’s all stand in our personal space and take our pulse
(show where carotid artery is and tell them to count how many times they feel the pulse on their neck)
time ten seconds and then ask a few students to say how much they got
Now that you know how to check your pulse, you can do this whenever you exercise!
Reflective Comments (to be completed after the lesson):
don’t give all of the ways a heart can be healthy right at the beginning, tell them a new way each time there are new
taggers for a new round. this will allow them to learn and remember one at a time

Description of Activities

Heart Power Tag

having a healthy heart, it’s as easy as 1,2,3!
1. Eat healthy
2. Get active
3. tobacco-free
This tag game reinforces the three important ways of keeping the heart healthy. The first discussion revolves around
eating healthy stuff. The taggers are the unhealthy foods that one wants to stay away from. If tagged, the student jogs in
place with his/her hand over the heart. Two persons running around join hands over the tagged person. (i.e. like playing
"London Bridge") They say, “Eat healthy stuff.” and the tagged person is now free.
The second round is played focusing on the theme of “move around enough.” Discussion takes place about how important
exercise is for the heart. The taggers represent "Couch Potatoes." During this round the students unfreezing the child
jogging in place, join hands and say, “Move around enough.”
In the third round the class discusses living tobacco-free. The taggers represent tobacco, which is something that we
should stay away from. The children unfreezing the tagged students say, "Live tobacco free.”

Artery Avengers
Divide students into 4 groups, mark off gym into fourths with small cones, each quadrant of gym has 3 hula hoops, yarn
balls and bean bags.
I explain to students that we have tubes throughout our bodies that our blood pumps through called arteries.
When we don’t take care of arteries and eat too much food that is high in fat, when we get old our arteries can become
clogged
The hula hoops represent our arteries, the yarn balls and bean bags represent globs of fat.
Students toss balls and beanbags into other teams hula hoops (arteries).
Two rules: when glob of fat is in hoop they can’t remove it, and they can only throw from their own quadrant.
Each student has a poly spot, (fat blocker) that represents one of these ways to keep arteries healthy.
They use the poly spot to block the fat globs being tossed their direction.
We don’t stop and count or see who has the most.
Instead I have students move one quadrant clockwise (so they have new close neighbors), they clean out the arteries and
we start again.