Year 2 - Science
The importance of exercise
Healthy me
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Unit Summary
This unit covers the importance of exercise, balanced nutrition, and hygiene for humans. It involves performing simple tests, observing closely, and identifying and classifying information. Emphasis is on asking questions, using observations to suggest answers, and gathering and recording data.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to describe why it is important for humans to exercise.
Key Notes
- It is important for humans to live a healthy life.
- Exercise is one way for humans to become and stay healthy.
- Exercise increases breathing rate, heart rate and can cause humans to sweat more.
- Exercise is known to improve your heart, lungs and muscle strength.
Vocabulary To Learn
- healthy: A plant or animal is healthy if it is in a state of well-being and free from disease.
- exercise: Exercise means using a lot of effort to move our bodies so that they stay fit and healthy.
- heart rate: Heart rate is the number of times a heart beats each minute.
- lungs: The lung is an organ that some animals use to breathe. Mammals have two lungs.
- muscles: A muscle is a part of our body that helps us to move.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Household chores are not examples of physical activity but sports, running and climbing are. Playing, dancing and walking are not fitness activities.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the scientific idea in this lesson using two key points.
It is important for humans to live a healthy life. Exercise is one way for humans to become and stay healthy.
2. Define this scientific word and use it in context. 'healthy'
A plant or animal is healthy if it is in a state of well-being and free from disease. Include the word in a full scientific explanation, not as a single label.
3. Correct this common scientific misunderstanding.
Mistake: Household chores are not examples of physical activity but sports, running and climbing are. Playing, dancing and walking are not fitness activities. Correction: Examples of a variety of different physical activities.
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