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Flexibility & Stretching

Seventh graders learn that flexibility — how far their joints and muscles can move — is a key part of fitness that helps prevent injury. Dynamic stretches warm you up; gentle static stretches cool you down. They check the rules, then practice safe stretching.

Grade 7Flexibility & Stretching45 minutes1 class periodSHAPEExplicit teaching4 StandardsSHAPE
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Lesson at a Glance

Everything you need before the bell rings

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Define flexibility.
  • ✓Tell dynamic vs static.
  • ✓Stretch safely.
  • ✓Build a stretch routine.
Essential Question

How does stretching keep your body healthy and injury-free?

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Interactive Task
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Stretching Smarts

Project each item and have students answer about flexibility and stretching.

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Answer each question about flexibility and stretching.
The Lesson · Health & PE Flow (Warm-Up · Learn · Practice · Apply · Cool-Down)

45 minutes, five moves

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1

Warm-Up — Reach for It

5 min

Can you touch your toes? How does stretching feel?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Try a gentle reach.
  • Notice the stretch.
  • Set the goal.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Stretch.
  • Notice.
  • Get ready.
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Learn — Flexibility

11 min

Students learn.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send students to Stretching Smarts.
  • Note dynamic before, static after.
  • Note gentle, never to pain.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Answer.
  • Note it.
  • Note it.
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Practice — Practice

13 min

Students practice.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Do a dynamic warm-up stretch.
  • Hold a gentle static stretch.
  • Breathe, do not bounce.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Warm up.
  • Hold.
  • Breathe.
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Apply — Apply

11 min

Students apply.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Build a 4-stretch routine.
  • Order it warm-up to cool-down.
  • Try it safely.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Build.
  • Order.
  • Try.
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Cool-Down — Cool-Down

5 min

Students close.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Say what flexibility is.
  • Say a stretching rule.
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Say it.
  • Say.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

Built to the standards you report on

Aligned to the SHAPE America National Standards for Health Education and Physical Education.

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PE.3

Understand flexibility as a fitness component.

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PE.1

Perform stretches with correct form.

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HE.1

Explain how stretching prevents injury.

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HE.7

Practice a safe stretching routine.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Stretch demo cards.
  • Frame: “dynamic before, static after.”
  • Model each stretch.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Use 2 stretches.
  • Follow along slowly.
  • Use picture cues.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Design a full warm-up/cool-down.
  • Target different muscle groups.
  • Track flexibility progress.
Materials

What to gather

  • 📽️Screen / board
  • 🧘Mats
  • 💻Stretching Smarts
  • 📋Stretch routine cards
  • 📓Notebooks
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

flexibilityhow far joints and muscles moverange of motionhow far a joint can movedynamic stretcha moving stretch to warm upstatic stretcha held stretch to cool downwarm-upgetting the body ready to movecool-downeasing the body back to restinjuryharm stretching can help preventformdoing a stretch the right way
Evaluate

Exit Ticket

Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.

QUESTION 1
What is flexibility?
How far your joints and muscles can move.
QUESTION 2
Which stretch type is best before activity?
Dynamic (moving) stretches.
QUESTION 3
What is a key stretching rule?
Stretch gently — never bounce or force it to pain.

Cool-down: flexibility & stretching.

Have students build a 4-stretch warm-up and cool-down. A printable stretch routine sheet is in the PE & Health library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

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Practice · Quiz

Check your understanding

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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.

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Name: ________________________
Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: cool-down, dynamic stretch, flexibility, form, injury, range of motion, static stretch, warm-up
  1. doing a stretch the right way
  2. how far a joint can move
  3. getting the body ready to move
  4. a held stretch to cool down
  5. easing the body back to rest
  6. harm stretching can help prevent
  7. how far joints and muscles move
  8. a moving stretch to warm up

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. What is flexibility?
  2. Which stretch type is best before activity?
  3. What is a key stretching rule?
Answer key — Part A: 1) form · 2) range of motion · 3) warm-up · 4) static stretch · 5) cool-down · 6) injury · 7) flexibility · 8) dynamic stretch
Part B: 1) How far your joints and muscles can move. 2) Dynamic (moving) stretches. 3) Stretch gently — never bounce or force it to pain.