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Health & PE Grade 7 6-8 Lesson Plan

Personal Fitness Planning: Setting and Tracking SMART Fitness Goals

Duration: 50 minutes · NYS Learning Standards for Health, Physical Education, and Family and Consumer Sciences (2020)

Alignment Record

Built from publicly available New York State standards. Standard codes cited from official NYSED sources.

PE Standard 1
Students will demonstrate competency in motor skills and movement patterns and apply knowledge of concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics related to movement and performance, including personal fitness planning.
Source: NYS Learning Standards for Health, Physical Education, and Family and Consumer Sciences (2020), Physical Education Standard 1, Intermediate — nysed.gov
PE Standard 2
Students will demonstrate the knowledge and skills to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical activity and fitness.
Source: NYS Learning Standards for Health, Physical Education, and Family and Consumer Sciences (2020), Physical Education Standard 2, Intermediate — nysed.gov
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  • Lesson Plan for Grade 7 Health & PE
  • NYS framework label: NYS Learning Standards for Health, Physical Education, and Family and Consumer Sciences (2020)
  • Primary standard: PE Standard 1

Personal Fitness Planning: Setting and Tracking SMART Fitness Goals

Grade 7 · Health & PE · NYS PE Standards 1 & 2 · 50 Minutes

NYS-Aligned Standards

PE Standard 1 — Movement competency and applying fitness-planning concepts. PE Standard 2 — Achieving and maintaining a health-enhancing level of fitness. NYS Learning Standards for Health, Physical Education, and FCS (2020)

Learning Objectives — “I Can” Statements

  • I can name the five health-related components of fitness.
  • I can write a SMART fitness goal for one component.
  • I can describe how I will track my progress over time.

Essential Question

How can I set a fitness goal that is realistic, measurable, and actually motivating?

Lesson Sequence

Hook / Warm-Up (8 min)

Quick movement circuit (jumping jacks, plank hold, arm circles). Afterward ask: “Which felt easy? Which was hard? That tells us where our fitness is right now.”

Direct Instruction (12 min)

  1. Introduce the five health-related fitness components: cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, body composition.
  2. Introduce SMART goals: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound.
  3. Model converting “I want to get fit” into a SMART goal.

Guided Practice (15 min)

Students self-assess each fitness component (1–5 scale), identify their lowest area, and draft a SMART goal with teacher feedback.

Independent Practice (10 min)

Students complete a one-week tracking plan: the activity, how often, and how they will record progress.

Closure (5 min)

Partners share their SMART goal and give one piece of encouragement.

SDI & Differentiation Block

Supports for MLLs/ELLs

Entering/Emerging (NYSESLAT Levels 1–2):

  • Visual icons for each fitness component
  • Sentence frame: “My goal is to ___ for ___ minutes, ___ times a week.”

Transitioning/Expanding (NYSESLAT Levels 3–4):

  • Vocabulary: endurance, strength, flexibility, measurable, progress
  • Provide a partially completed SMART goal template

Supports for Students with IEPs

SDI Adaptation Dimensions: content, methodology, delivery

  • Content: Focus on one fitness component; provide a goal sentence frame
  • Methodology: Demonstrate each component physically; use a visual tracking chart
  • Delivery: Read aloud; allow verbal goal-setting scribed by teacher; adapt movements to ability and any medical/IEP needs

Suggested Placement: ICT, Resource Room, adapted PE as appropriate

Model Response

“Component: cardiorespiratory endurance. SMART goal: I will jog for 15 minutes, 3 times a week, for the next 4 weeks, and record my time in a log so I can see if my endurance improves.”

Alignment Record

FieldValue
Standard CodesPE Standard 1; PE Standard 2
FrameworkNYS Learning Standards for Health, Physical Education, and FCS (2020)
Sourcenysed.gov — NYS Health/PE/FCS Learning Standards (2020)
ConfidenceHigh Confidence
Validation NotesCited at the NYS PE Standard level. Personal fitness planning and maintaining health-enhancing fitness are documented intermediate-level expectations under PE Standards 1 and 2. SMART goal framework and five health-related fitness components are widely accepted PE content.
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