Furwa Haque

H E 3300
5/31/15

Lesson Plan Assignment

Name of Lesson Plan: My Healthy Exercise Plan
Content Area: Promoting regular exercise with brainstorming exercises to create a weekly
exercise plan.
Grade Level: 3

NHES Standard 6: Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance
health.
Performance Indicator: Set a personal health goal and track progress toward its achievement.
Objectives:
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Students will be able to identify activities for healthy exercise that they can accomplish
on a regular basis.
Students will be able to create a weekly plan for exercising 5 days a week.
Students will be able to track exercise activity, attempt to follow their weekly, and record
comments on their physical activity for the week.

Strategies and Activities:

Developmental Characteristics:
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Can effectively plan but needs parental supervision when following through with plans
Likes to play and engage in games and other various physical activities
Learns best through active participation
Can easily identify likes and dislikes, and express them openly
Like to know the purpose of class activities

Activity #1: Brainstorm Ideas for 30 Minutes of Physical Activity

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Discussion of the importance of physical activity in daily life

Give students a sheet of paper, tell them to write the title: Healthy Activities for 30
Minutes of Exercise.
Have students come up with seven different activities in total.

Materials:
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Paper
Pencil

Time:
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5 minutes for discussion

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15 minutes for activity

Rubric:
4
strong
3
proficient
2
basic
1

Fully able to seven acceptable activities for 30 minutes of physical

activity.
Able to identify 5 activities for 30 minutes of physical activity, and
two that arent of high enough intensity and movement to count for
the physical activity needed.
Able to identify a few activities for 30 minutes of physical activity but
needs some help.
Not able to identify any activities for 30 minutes of physical activity.

weak

Activity #2: Create a weekly plan that includes 30 minutes of physical activity on 5
different days of the week.
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Give students a sheet of paper.

Have Students construct a table of 2 columns and 7 rows.
Have students label first column as Day of The Week and the second column as
Activity, and label the days of the week one by one in each row under the column for
Day of The Week.
Have students choose 5 of the 7 activities from the brainstorming exercise and allot one
each to 5 different days of the week on the table, so that each of the 5 days chosen has a
different activity listed in the column next to the day.

Materials:
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Pencil
Paper

Time:
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10 minutes for the activity

Rubric:
4
strong

Fully able to choose 5 different activities and assign a different one to

each of 5 different days.

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Able to choose 5 activities, but has trouble choosing days.

proficient
2
basic
1

Able to choose 3 activities, and repeats 1 or 2 of them on different

days.
Unable to choose 5 activities and allot them to 5 different days.

weak

Activity #3: Attempt to Follow Weekly Plan from Activity #2, Record Physical Activity for
the week, and comments about weekly physical activity.
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Give students a sheet of paper.

Have students construct a table with 3 columns and 7 rows.
Have students label first column as Day of The Week, the second column as Activity,
and the third column as Comments, then label the days of the week one by one in each
row under the column for Day of The Week.
Tell students to try to follow the plan they created in activity #2, and record their physical
activity each day, and to also include the exact amount of time spent on each activity.
Tell students to also write down comments throughout the week about their physical
activity each day, which should include things how it felt, the level of difficulty, whether
or not they liked it etc.
Have students bring these sheets in the next week, and have a class discussion where
everyone discusses their physical activity and analyzes strengths and weaknesses.

Materials:
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Paper
Pencil

Time:
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30 minutes 5 days a week for the physical activities

5 minutes each day for 7 seven days to record physical activity and comments
20 minutes for class discussion on everyones physical activity for the week, and to
address strengths and weaknesses as well as likes and dislikes.

Rubric:
4
strong

Fully able to complete 30 minutes of exercise 5 different days of the

week, keep a record of physical activity for the week, write at least
one comment for each day where physical activity was accomplished,
and can identify strengths and weaknesses as well as likes and
dislikes.

3
proficient
2
basic
1
weak

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Fully able to complete 30 minutes of exercise 5 different days of the
week, keep a record of physical activity for the week, but was not able
to write down comments for each day that physical activity took
place, was unsure of strengths and weaknesses.
Able to complete 30 minutes of physical exercise only 3 days of the
week, but was not able to write down comments for each day that
physical activity took place, is unsure of strengths and weaknesses as
well as likes and dislikes.
Unable to complete 30 minutes of physical exercise on 5 different
days of the week, also unable to write down corresponding comments,
is unsure of likes and dislikes.