3.12 Heart Smart
“Heart Smart!” is Lesson 3.12 (Exercise unit) from the National FFA Grow Your PALS Program Guide, a small-group mentoring lesson. Students create a paper-heart note page, then learn how exercise affects the heart, measure their resting heart rate, and calculate their target heart rate. The lesson includes hands-on pulse-taking activities, an assessment worksheet, and teaching masters.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Describe how exercise affects the heart.
- Measure resting heart rate.
- Calculate target heart rate.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 30 minutes.
- Materials
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- Red construction paper – one per student
- Scissors – one per student
- Pencil or marker – one per student
- PALS3.12.SG.TM.A
- PALS3.12.SG.TM.B
- PALS3.12.SG.ASSESS.A – one per student
- Stopwatch
- Unit
- Exercise
- Lesson Type
- Small Group
- Precepts
- G Physical Growth — G3. Participate in a fitness program
- Key Terms
- Pulse
Downloads & Links
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- CS.02.01.03.aDescribe practices that must be maintained to achieve long term health.
- NL-ENG.K-12.12Applying Language Skills
- NM-NUM.6-8.1Understand Numbers, Ways of Representing Numbers, Relationships among Numbers, and Number Systems
- NM-NUM.6-8.2Understand Meanings of Operations and How They Relate to One Another
- NS.5-8.6Science in Personal and Social Perspectives