Let’s Get Moving

1. Let’s Get Moving

2. Learning Objectives By the end of this lesson, you should be able to: • Identify the benefits of physical activity on your heart. • Analyze your daily physical activity. • Create a plan to improve on the number of minutes you spend moving each day.

3. Important Vocabulary • Heart • Ventricle • Atrium • Artery • Vein • Static

4. Engage

5. Name That Sound! Sound 1 Can you guess what is creating these sounds? Sound 2

6. Name That Sound! • What might be causing the second one to beat at a faster rate? • Why might the heart need to beat slowly at times and faster at others?

7. Sizing It Up! • Make a fist and hold it over your chest. • Did you know your heart is about the size of your fist?

8. Did You Know? • The heart is the hardest working muscle in your body. • Your heart pumps over 2,000 gallons of blood throughout your body each day!

9. The Circulatory System

10. Keeping Your Heart Healthy • Your heart has many important jobs that keep you alive and well. • It is important to keep your heart healthy. • Can you think of some ways to keep your heart healthy?

11. Explore

12. Finding Your Pulse Let’s look at 2 ways you can find your pulse! Neck Wrist

13. Calculating Beats Per Minute Your BPM 4 Fill in the number of beats you feel in 15 seconds. This number tells you how many times your heart beats in one minute.

14. Exploring Your Heart Rate

15. Choose Your Fitness Activities Choose 3 fitness activities that can be done at your desk.

16. Graphing Your Data Example: Double Bar Graph

17. Graphing Your Data Try This QR! Online Graphing Tool: Create-A-Graph Try This QR! Example: Double Bar Graph

18. Study FUN: Check This Out!

19. Study FUN: Check This Out!

20. Explain

21. Importance of Physical Activity • The more we exercise a muscle such as the heart, the stronger that muscle becomes. • The stronger your heart is, the stronger the rest of your muscles will be. This is because a strong healthy heart is able to pump the needed blood to those muscles.

22. The Benefits of Exercise • Study the”How Exercise Benefits Your Whole Body” article. • As you read, make note of the many reasons exercise is so good for your body.

23. The Benefits of Exercise • Study the “How Exercise Benefits Your Whole Body” article. • As you read, make note of all the reasons exercise is so good for your body. Exercise Benefits Whole Body

24. Reflect on Your Daily Activity • List all the ways you get physical activity each day. • Estimate the time you spend on each activity listed and then add up the total time you spend doing physical activity in a day. • Do you think this is enough, or should you spend more time doing physical activity each day?

25. Other Ways to Get Moving • Study the following article: • Get Off Your Butt • What are some activities that can be added to your list of ways to increase your daily physical activity?

26. Other Ways to Get Moving • Study the “Get Off Your Butt” article. • What are some activities that can be added to your list of ways to increase your daily physical activity? Get Off Your Butt

27. I can add physical activity to my day by...

28. Elaborate

29. Facts and Statistics • Let’s check out some facts and statistics highlighted on the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition website! • Think about how these facts and statistics can help you improve your physical fitness.

30. Facts and Statistics • Let’s check out some facts and statistics highlighted on the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition website! • Think about how these facts and statistics can help you improve your physical fitness. Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition

31. Tracking Your Activity

32. Tracking Your Activity Now that you have a week’s worth of data, calculate the totals for each day as well as the daily average.

33. Create and Implement Plan • Now that you know about how much physical activity you get each day… • Create a plan to incorporate more movement into your day.

34. Evaluate

35. Show What You Know • What are the main parts of the circulatory system? • What part of the circulatory system carries blood to the heart? What part carries blood away from the heart? • Why is it so essential to exercise the heart? • What can we do to improve our heart health? • Explain how the heart acts as a pump and how it gets blood to every cell in the body.

36. fit Takeaways • Physical activity is great for the body and the mind. • Choose to move throughout the day. Minutes add up and they all matter.

37. fit Resources: • Fitness Challenge • http://fit.webmd.com/kids/move/game/fitness-challenge-game • How Exercise Benefits Your Whole Body • http://fit.webmd.com/kids/move/article/exercise-helps-body • Get Off Your Butt • http://fit.webmd.com/kids/move/article/off-your-butt • Track Your Exercise • http://fit.webmd.com/kids/move/article/track-your-exercise • Kid Exercises: The 4 Types You Need • http://fit.webmd.com/kids/move/article/exercise-types • Other Resources: • President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition (website) • http://www.fitness.gov/resource-center/facts-and-statistics/ • National Center for Education Statistics’ Create-A-Graph (online graphing tool) • http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

38. http://www.fit4theclassroom.com/