Second Grade Unit: Fitness

Second Grade Fitness ObjectivesPE.2.HF.3.1

Recognize one of more of the five health-related fitness assessments and the associated exercises.PE.2.MC.2.4

Illustrate activities that increase heart rate.

What does this mean to you?In this unit you will be learning about fitness and 4 different kinds of exercises that can help make you fit.

You will need to be able to recognize pictures or videos of all 4 different exercises. You may also be asked to draw at least 3 different activities that help improve your fitness level.

Exercises:

1. Muscular Strength Short, hard exercises that challenge your muscles.

2. Flexibility Exercises that make your muscles stretch.

3. Muscular Endurance Easier exercises that your muscles can do for a long time.

4. Cardiovascular Endurance or Cardio Exercises that make your heart beat faster for a long time.

Question 1: What kind of Fitness Exercise are these?

Answer:

Cardiovascular Enduranceor “Cardio”

- Exercises that make your heart beat faster for a long time.

Question 2: What kind of Fitness Exercise are these?

Answer:

Muscular Endurance- Easier exercises that your muscles

can do for a long time.

Question 3: What kind of Fitness Exercise are these?

Answer:

Muscular Strength- Short, hard exercises that challenge

your muscles.

Question 4: What kind of Fitness Exercise are these?

Answer:

Flexibility- Exercises that make your muscles

stretch.

Second Grade Fitness Summary

By the end of this fitness unit you will be asked to draw at least 3 activities that help improve your fitness. You will also need to be able

to name all 4 of the different kinds exercises when your teacher shows you a video or picture of them.

Exercises:

1. Muscular Strength Short, hard exercises that challenge your muscles.

2. Flexibility Exercises that make your muscles stretch.

3. Muscular Endurance Easier exercises that your muscles can do for a long time.

4. Cardiovascular Endurance or Cardio Exercises that make your heart beat faster for a long time.