Year 1 - Physical education
Effect of exercise on our heartbeat
Health and wellbeing: the effects of exercise
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Unit Summary
This unit will teach pupils to identify changes in their heartbeat and breathing when they exercise. Pupils will begin to understand how exercise makes them feel both physically and mentally. Pupils will develop their knowledge of the positive impact exercise has on our bodies and lifestyles.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to identify changes in your heartbeat when you exercise.
Key Notes
- Move: moving quickly or slowly causes our heart to beat faster or slower.
- Think: our heart pumps blood around the body to provide our muscles with energy.
- Think: our heartbeat gets faster when we exercise and slows down again when we rest.
- Feel: consistently trying hard shows courage.
- Connect: listening carefully shows a commitment to playing by the rules, enabling the activities to flow successfully
Vocabulary To Learn
- heartbeat: the regular movement or sound that our heart makes as it sends blood around our body
- exercise: being physically active while playing a game or performing an activity
- energy: the ability to do work or move
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Some pupils may think that a fast heartbeat makes the body move faster rather than it being a response to exercise i.e. the heart acts like an engine and a fast heartbeat makes you run fast.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: moving quickly or slowly causes our heart to beat faster or slower. Think: our heart pumps blood around the body to provide our muscles with energy.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'heartbeat'
the regular movement or sound that our heart makes as it sends blood around our body.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Some pupils may think that a fast heartbeat makes the body move faster rather than it being a response to exercise i.e. the heart acts like an engine and a fast heartbeat makes you run fast. Correction: Your heartbeat usually changes because of an action or a feeling. When you do exercise, you need it to pump more blood to your muscles for energy so it changes its speed because of your exercising actions.
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