3.13 Calisthenics Count
This is Lesson 3.13 (“Calisthenics Count”) from the National FFA Grow Your PALS Program Guide, a small-group mentoring lesson in the Exercise unit. FFA members and their PALS take turns leading calisthenics exercises while the group counts by 2s through 9s, combining daily physical activity with practice in counting, addition, and multiplication. The lesson includes an interest approach, teaching activity, nursery-rhyme review, application ideas, and an assessment.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Demonstrate healthy exercise.
- Demonstrate counting, addition and multiplication.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 30 minutes.
- Materials
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- Writing surface
- Markers or pencils
- PALS3.13.SG.AS.A
- PALS3.13.SG.ASSESS.A – one per student
- Unit
- Exercise
- Lesson Type
- Small Group
- Precepts
- G – Physical Growth; G3. Participate in a fitness program
- Key Terms
- Exercise
- Resources
- National FFA Organization. (2003). LifeKnowledge Precepts and Signs of Success
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Aligned Standards
National Standards
- CS.02.01.03.aDescribe practices that must be maintained to achieve long term health.
- NL-ENG.K-12.5Communication Strategies – Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
- NM-NUM.3-5.2Understand Meanings of Operations and How They Relate to One Another