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Is Your Heart Getting a Good Workout? Lesson PlanIs Your Heart Getting a Good Workout? Lesson Plan
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Is Your Heart Getting a Good Workout?

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Students practice raising their heart rates through exercise.  In this physical education lesson, students discover the key to a healthy body is a healthy heart that must be exercised often.  Students perform a sing along and march in place to music for a few minutes in order to observe their own heart rate increasing.

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heart rate, the heart

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heart rate, Physical Education, sing along, workout, english language arts
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Grade
2nd - 5th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Duration
1 hr
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