AEROBICS 1
Subject Area:
Course Number:
Grade Level:
Credit:
Prerequisite:
Category:
Physical Education
1503400
9 – 12
0.5
None
Fitness
Health Component Emphasized: Cardiorespiratory Endurance
The purpose of this course is to enable students to develop basic-level knowledge of aerobic activities and
fitness and to maintain or improve an individualized level of fitness.
This course will contain but not limited to the following: safety practices, basic physiology of the
cardiovascular system, basic anatomy of the muscles, correct techniques of executing exercises, high and low
impact aerobics, use of various types of exercise equipment, personal and group fitness exercises/activities,
fitness assessment, nutrition, stress reduction, consumer issues and the benefits of cardio respiratory fitness.
Aerobics 1: Pacing Guide
Time Frame: Based on 49 minutes classes sectioned into weekly units
Topic / Section or
Information to be
Covered
Florida Standards
Suggested Learning Goal/
Suggested Scale
Resources
Recognize the value of
following directions,
caring for equipment and
respecting the rules and
regulations of
activities/sports.
Course Syllabus,
Attendance
Procedures,
Rules and
Regulations,
Locks and
Lockers,
Uniforms
Why is it important to
include physical activity
on a daily basis?
Syllabus/
Procedure can
be located on
SharePoint
Why is necessary to have
rules and regulations for
an aerobic class?
0 = Even with help, there is no
understanding of …
1 = With help student can partially …
2 = Uses a modified version of
understanding the …
3 = Can understand the concept of ….
4 = Goes over and beyond in
understanding the concept ….
Suggested
Essential Question
1st week
Orientation
Course Syllabus
Locks and
Lockers/Uniforms
Attendance
Procedures
Rules and
Regulations/Safety/Ex
treme weather
and/or environmental
conditions.
Medical History
Select proper
equipment and apply all
appropriate safety
procedures necessary
for participation.
PE.912.M.1.35
Information
Sheets located
on SharePoint
Why do PE teachers
strongly emphasize
safety daily?
2nd week
Importance of
Aerobics as a lifelong
activity.
Identify safety issues
Written Pre – Testing
Fitness Testing
Performance Skill
Rubric Assessment
Take place in first 2
weeks to 1 month.
Utilize knowledge of the
risks and safety factors
that may affect physical
activity throughout life.
PE.912.1.16
Apply appropriate
technology and analyze
data to evaluate,
monitor, and/or
improve performance
PE.912.C.1.23
Utilize selected
technology to assess,
PACER or Mile run, curlenhance, and maintain
ups, push-ups, curl ups,
health and skill-related
flexibility and body
fitness levels.
composition.
Initiate and participate
effectively in a range of
collaborative
discussions...
Goal Setting
Understand safety
factors that may affect
physical activity
throughout life.
Understand the meaning
of fitness and its
relationship to over-all
well-being.
Why is important to be
aware of safety factors in
exercising?
How will my actions
today affect my health in
the future?
How does daily exercise
help you personally?
PE.912.M.1.14
Understand how to set
Goals.
LAFS.910.SL.1.1
Understand specific
exercises/activities,
which will improve my
overall fitness
Why is important to set
goals?
3rd week
Apply strategies for selfDevelop Strategies
improvement based on
for Self-improvement individual strengths and
needs.
Warm-up/Cool-Down Select and apply
sports/activity specific
warm-up and cool-down
techniques.
Conditioning
Safety in exercising /
sequences of
workouts
Heart rate count:
when, where and
how.
Polar heart monitor
(if applicable) and
application
Utilize knowledge of the
risks and safety factors
that may affect physical
activity throughout life.
PE.912.M.1.5
Determine strengths and
weakness in fitness.
PE.912.M.1.15
Demonstrate correct
/safe stretches
PE.912.L.1.6
PE.912.C.1.16
Explain the methods of
monitoring levels of
intensity during aerobic
activity.
Fitnessgram scores, how
are ways to improve your
weaknesses? Maintain
your strengths?
Why is it important to
warm-up? Cool-down?
What are the safe types of
stretches?
Demonstrate using the
correct body mechanics
while performing
conditioning exercises.
Heart Rate
charts located in
SharePoint
PE.912.C1.15
Calculate individual
target heart rate zone
and analyze how to
adjust intensity level to
stay within the desired
range.
Based on your
Why is it important to use
the correct body mechanics
when exercising?
Where are the two best
places to take pulse count?
Identify various ways to
monitor target heart
What is cardio-respiratory
fitness?
Determine target heart
rate
What is the target heart
rate?
How is the target heart rate
determined?
Why is target heart rate
range important to know?
4th Week
.
Perform basic steps in
step- aerobics OR
basic dance / rhythm
movements.
Participate in a variety
of physical activities to
meet the recommended
number of minutes of
Moderate to Vigorous
Physical Activity (MVPA)
beyond physical
education on five or
more days of the week.
Understand and apply
terminology and
etiquette in dance.
PE.912.L1.1.
Demonstrate an
understanding for the
basic steps in selected
aerobic routines while
performing 30 minutes of
MVPA
Demonstrate an
understanding of the
correct terminology used
for aerobics.
PE.912.C.1.2
Demonstrate an
understanding of the
correct etiquette used in
an aerobics.
Aerobic
Information/Rou
tines.
Can be found in
Fitness for Life
Textbook or
Personal Fitness
Textbook
SharePoint
What do the initials of
MVPA represent?
How much MVPA should
a person have in a week?
What are the names of
the steps used in today’s
routine?
Why is it important to
demonstrate good
etiquette in aerobics?
5h Week
Upper body sculpture
workout with
dumbbells, body bars
and / or with bands.
Lower body sculpture
work out with
dumbbells, body bars
and / or bands.
Add new steps to
basic steps in stepaerobics OR basic
dance/rhythm
movements.
Cardio workout.
Participate in a variety
of activities that
promote
PE.912.L.1.2
cardiorespiratory
fitness, muscular
strength and endurance,
flexibility, and body
composition.
Demonstrate the ability
to participate in activities
that promote muscular
endurance.
Demonstrate the ability
to participate in activities
that promote muscular
strength.
Demonstrate the ability
to participate in activities
that promote cardio
respiratory fitness.
Demonstrate the ability
to participate in activities
that promote flexibility.
Demonstrate an
understanding of the
how various pieces of
equipment are used in
aerobics.
Sculpture
workouts and
exercises can be
found in Fitness
for Life Textbook
or Personal
Fitness Textbook
or Exercise
videos on line.
What is muscular
endurance? Muscular
endurance? Flexibility?
Cardio respiratory?
What is resistance
training?
Why is muscular
endurance important?
Muscular endurance?
Flexibility? Cardio
respiratory?
6th Week
Circuit training with
stability balls, med
balls OR with or
without other
equipment to
concentrate on core.
Basic dance/rhythm
movements adding
new steps transitions
and directions to
routine.
7th Week
Circuit training using
the caloric intake /
expenditure.
Introduce BOSU or any
other exercises and
how it relates to core.
BOSU or other core
workout. Abdominal
workouts.
Basic aerobics, dance /
rhythm movements
adding new steps
transitions / movement
patterns to routine.
Participate in a variety PE.912.L.1.3
of activities that
promote effective stress
management.
Select proper
equipment and apply all
appropriate safety
procedures necessary
for participation.
Understand that the
graph of an equation in
two variables is the set of
all its solutions plotted in
the coordinate plane,
often forming a curve
(which could be a line).
Use statistics appropriate
to the shape of the data
distribution to compare
center (median, mean)
and spread (interquartile
range, standard
deviation) of two or more
different data sets.
PE.912.M.1.35
Demonstrate an
understanding of core
exercises.
Demonstrate knowledge
of how core strength
applies to everyday
situations-functional
training.
Circuit training
cards may be
found in
SharePoint.
Demonstrate the ability
to plot a graph of how
calories consume
compares to calories
expanded.
Demonstrate an
understanding of caloric
intake and expenditure.
What are the core
muscles?
How does strengthening
the core area help you
perform activities easier?
Demonstrate an
understanding of how
exercising helps manage
stress.
MAFS.912
SL.1.1
SL 1.2
Where are the core
muscles located?
Circuit training
cards for caloric
intake can be
found in
SharePoint.
8th Week
Circuit training using
Kick-box circuit.
Kick box aerobic
routine
Introduce medicine
ball and exercises
with the medicine ball
or similar activity. Or
similar drill.
th
9 Week
Go over various steps
using music from
various cultures and
how the music
influences the dance.
Analyze progression.
Steps in step- aerobics
or basic dance / rhythm
movements workouts
using new movements.
10th Week
Circuit training /various
equipment.
Analyze/ discuss longterm benefits of all.
Steps in step- aerobics
or basic dance/rhythm
movements workouts
using new movements.
Breathing and
relaxation to combat
stress.
Explore the role of
games, sports, and/or
physical activities in
other cultures.
PE.912.R.2.3
Analyze the relationship
between music and
dance.
PE.912.C.1.5
Demonstrate an
understanding of how
kick boxing was derived.
Kick box circuits
and routines.
Where did kick boxing
originate?
Where did medicine balls
originate?
Demonstrate an
understanding of how
medicine balls evolved.
Demonstrate an
understanding of dance
moves from other cultures.
What is the ….dance?
(Dances from various
cultures.)
How does the music
from that culture affect
the dance?
Participate in a variety of PE.912.L1.1
physical activities to meet
the recommended number
of minutes of moderate to
vigorous physical activity
(MVPA) beyond physical
education on five or more
days of the week.
PE.912.L1.3
Participate in a variety of
activities that promote
effective stress
management.
Demonstrate the correct
breathing technique for
stress management.
Demonstrate exercises that
produce relaxation.
See variety of
routines
Can be
researched online.
What is eustress?
What is distress?
How is the best way to
combat stress?
11th Week
Relays, Sprints, Boot
Camp, Plyometric &
activities from various
cultures.
Steps in step- aerobics
or basic dance/rhythm
movements workouts
using new movements,
transitions and
directions
12th Week
Steps in step- aerobics
or basic dance/rhythm
movements workouts
using new movements,
Allow students to
identify each
movement by name
Participate in a variety
of activities that
promote
cardiorespiratory
fitness, muscular
PE.912.L.1.2
strength and endurance,
flexibility, and body
composition.
Demonstrate
PE.912.R.1.3
responsible behaviors
during physical
activities.
Participate in a variety
of activities that
promote
cardiorespiratory
PE.912.L.1.2
fitness, muscular
strength and endurance,
flexibility, and body
composition.
Demonstrate
responsible behaviors
during physical
activities.
PE.912.R.1.3
Demonstrate and
understanding of the
difference between
aerobic exercising and
anaerobic exercises
Use Relays,
Sprints, Boot
Camp,
Plyometric
exercises.
What are aerobic
exercises?
What are anaerobic
exercises?
What is lactic acid?
Understand and apply
correct workout
movements.
Step names for
step aerobics
found on
SharePoint.
What aerobic exercise is
the best to promote
cardio? Muscular
strength? Muscular
endurance? Body
composition? Flexibility?
13th Week
Develop strategies for
including persons of
diverse backgrounds
and abilities while
participating in a variety
of physical activities.
PE.912.R.1.2
Develop groups in
accordance to skill
and/or culture in order to
create a dance/aerobic
routine.
Each group will perform
their routine for
another group on a one
group to one group
basis.
Design and perform a
creative movement
sequence while working
with a small or large
group, with or without
equipment/props.
PE.912.M1.8
Demonstrate the
knowledge in order to
create a cardio routine
with or without
equipment.
14th Week
Design and perform a
creative movement
sequence while working
with a small or large
group, with or without
equipment/props.
PE.912.M1.8
Demonstrate and apply
knowledge in creating a
muscular endurance
routine with equipment.
Students will get into
small groups and put a
cardio routine together
with or without
equipment using the
sequences used in class.
Students get in groups
to design a muscular
endurance routine
using exercises.
Each group will perform
their routine for
another group on a one
group to one group
basis.
Suggestions for
developing
routines can be
found in Fitness
for Life Textbook
or Personal
Fitness
Textbook.
How many counts should
each step entail?
Suggestions for
developing
routines can be
found in Fitness
for Life Textbook
or Personal
Fitness
Textbook.
How many reps are done
for muscular endurance?
For muscular strength?
15th Week
Discussion of health
related benefits in the
various types of
equipment while
comparing and
contrasting aerobic
equipment.
Give guidelines and
rubric out to students
for designing routines
Participate in a variety
of activities that
promote
cardiorespiratory
fitness, muscular
PE.912.L.1.2
strength and endurance,
flexibility, and body
composition.
Demonstrate
responsible behaviors
during physical
activities.
PE.912.R.1.3
Demonstrate
responsible behaviors
during physical
activities.
PE.912.R.1.3
Compare and contrast
health-related benefits in
various exercises in the
aerobic course.
Guideline and
Rubric
suggestions for
aerobic/dance/
rhythm routines
on SharePoint.
What type of equipment
does your routine
require?
Suggestions for
developing
routines can be
found in Fitness
for Life Textbook
or Personal
Fitness
Textbook.
Why is it important to
work together as a
group?
Analyzing the selection of
music in the dance,
rhythm or step routine.
Selection of music is
done through the
teacher’s music used in
class
16th Week
Students will form their
groups, design routine
as a group then practice
routine.
Understand how to
design a dance, rhythm
or step routine
17th Week
After routine is
completed, each group
will perform for entire
class.
Repeat test on PACER,
or Mile run, curl-ups,
push-ups, curl ups,
flexibility and body
composition. End of
semester fitness testing
to see improvement.
Make sure Performance
Rubric is completed for
Post Test
Understand that the
graph of an equation in
two variables is the...
Use statistics
appropriate to the
shape of the data
distribution to
compare...
MACC.912.AREI.4.10:
(Common Core)
MACC.912.S-ID.1.2:
(Common Core)
Perform self-designed
aerobic routine.
Demonstrate Improved
fitness level.
Analyze and interpret
test scores.
18th Week
Make up for fitness test
or make up for fitness
routine.
Hand out study sheets,
discuss study sheets,
and review
terminology.
Review for written final
Make up work to be
done.
Final written exam.
Clean out lockers
finalize.
Post Test
Locker clean out
Guideline and
Rubric
suggestions for
aerobic/dance/r
hythm routines
on SharePoint.
Use Fitness
Assessment and
Performance
Skill Rubric.
Templates for
test found on
SharePoint.
What does the PACER
assessment measure?
What does the ….
Curl up? Push-up? Sit
and reach measure?
CPALMS Standards/Benchmarks
Name
MAFS.912.S-ID.1.2:
Description
Use statistics appropriate to the shape of the data distribution to compare center (median, mean) and spread (interquartile
range, standard deviation) of two or more different data sets.
Remarks/Examples:
In grades 6 – 8, students describe center and spread in a data distribution. Here they choose a summary statistic
appropriate to the characteristics of the data distribution, such as the shape of the distribution or the existence of
extreme data points.
Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with
diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and
persuasively.
LAFS.910.SL.1.1:
PE.912.C.2.2:
PE.912.C.2.5:
PE.912.C.2.15:
a. Come to discussions prepared, having read and researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation
by referring to evidence from texts and other research on the topic or issue to stimulate a thoughtful, well-reasoned
exchange of ideas.
b. Work with peers to set rules for collegial discussions and decision-making (e.g., informal consensus, taking votes on
key issues, presentation of alternate views), clear goals and deadlines, and individual roles as needed.
c. Propel conversations by posing and responding to questions that relate the current discussion to broader themes or
larger ideas; actively incorporate others into the discussion; and clarify, verify, or challenge ideas and conclusions.
d. Respond thoughtfully to diverse perspectives, summarize points of agreement and disagreement, and, when
warranted, qualify or justify their own views and understanding and make new connections in light of the evidence
and reasoning presented.
Apply terminology and etiquette in dance.
Analyze the relationship between music and dance.
Calculate individual target heart-rate zone and analyze how to adjust intensity level to stay within the desired range.
Explain the methods of monitoring levels of intensity during aerobic activity.
PE.912.C.2.16:
Remarks/Examples:
Some examples are a talk test, rate of perceived exertion and checking one's heart rate/pulse.
PE.912.C.2.23:
Apply appropriate technology and analyze data to evaluate, monitor and/or improve performance.
PE.912.L.3.1:
PE.912.L.3.2:
PE.912.L.3.3:
PE.912.L.3.6:
PE.912.R.5.2:
PE.912.R.5.4:
PE.912.R.5.5:
PE.912.R.6.3:
PE.912.M.1.5:
PE.912.M.1.8:
PE.912.M.1.14:
PE.912.M.1.15:
PE.912.M.1.35:
Participate in a variety of physical activities to meet the recommended number of minutes of moderate to vigorous physical
activity beyond physical education on five or more days of the week.
Participate in a variety of activities that promote the health-related components of fitness.
Remarks/Examples:
The health-related components of fitness are cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance,
flexibility and body composition.
Identify a variety of activities that promote effective stress management.
Identify risks and safety factors that may affect physical activity throughout life.
Develop strategies for including persons of diverse backgrounds and abilities while participating in a variety of physical
activities.
Maintain appropriate personal, social and ethical behavior while participating in a variety of physical activities.
Remarks/Examples:
Some examples are respecting teammates, opponents and officials, and accepting both victory and defeat.
Demonstrate appropriate etiquette, care of equipment, respect for facilities and safe behaviors while participating in a
variety of physical activities.
Analyze the roles of games, sports and/or physical activities in other cultures.
Apply strategies for self-improvement based on individual strengths and needs.
Design and perform a creative movement sequence while working with a small or large group, with or without
equipment/props.
Utilize technology to assess, enhance and maintain health and skill-related fitness levels.
Remarks/Examples:
Some examples of technology are Excel spreadsheets or web based programs to chart or log activities, heart rate
monitors, videotapes or digital cameras.
Select and apply sport/activity specific warm-up and cool-down techniques.
Select proper equipment and apply all appropriate safety procedures necessary for participation.