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Lesson Plan. 5
Activity:
Health Related Fitness
Resources:
Stop Watch
Work sheets (Chester Step test)
Pens, Cones
Objectives:
All (4b) - Can maintain pace for the duration of the Chester Step Test, and Know how to take
my heart rate before and after the assessment.
Most (5c) Understand the assessment and correct procedure involved in the Chester Step
Test, can maintain pace for the duration of the Chester Step Test
Some (5c) As above, and knows three ways to assess improvement in cardio-Vascular
endurance
Starter: To set objective of the lesson.
Main Lesson: Chester Step Test (4b / 5c: THEME- Agility and Cardiovascular
Endurance
SUBJECT MATTER
TEACHER ACTIVITY
PUPIL ACTIVITY
Warming up means
increasing body
temperature
Re-cap on Training
heart rate zones
Particularly 80%
MHR for this test.
A brief explanation of
Heart rate curve
Homework
ASSESSMENT
Giving explanations
Questioning / Answering
Compare - Body
temperature, Breathing
rate, pulse rate
Questioning / Assisting in
demo
Accuracy of performance
All
Teacher Activity:
What is the Pulse:
Explain what the pulse is and how to
count it correctly
Re-cap Locating the Pulse:
Show pupils how to locate their
Carotid or Radial pulse
Re-cap on Training heart rate zones
o Particularly 80% Mhr for this
test.
o 220-age (11) = 209
o 209 x 80% = 167 Bmp
Most
Consistency and confidently take a heart rate at
appropriate locations, and helping lesser able
students to locate.
The Test
This test is used to measure / monitor
cardio-vascular endurance.
The Chester step test is a sub-maximal
fitness test. It predicts cardio-vascular
fitness (endurance) from the rise of the
heart rate during moderate exercise, rather
than exercise to exertion.
Chester Step Test (CST) is a multistage,
sub-maximal test which requires the subject
to step on to and off of a low step at a
predetermined rate set by the audio media.
Every 2 minutes the heart rate will be
checked.
Record on the data sheet and the stepping
rate is then increased slightly. The test
continues in this progressive manner until
the subject reaches 80% of their Maximal
heart rate.