Year 5 - Physical education
Fitness
Health and wellbeing: stamina, strength and flexibility
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Unit Summary
This unit will teach pupils the meaning of strength, flexibility and the cardiovascular elements of fitness. Pupils will perform cardio, flexibility and strength focused circuits developing their own fitness and enhance their understanding of the importance of healthy active lifestyles.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explain what it means to be fit and you know how to develop your fitness through taking part in physical activities.
Key Notes
- Move: warming up the body by carrying out physical activities increases heart rate and prepares the body for exercise.
- Move: moving enough to get your heart beating faster helps make your body stronger and fitter.
- Think: knowing that strength, flexibility and stamina are all important for our fitness.
- Feel: showing integrity and self-motivation as we exercise enables us to try our hardest.
- Connect: cooperating and encouraging when exercising helps everyone to work hard.
Vocabulary To Learn
- fitness: being strong and healthy, and having a body that can run, jump, play and easily do everyday things
- exercise: physical activity that improves or maintains health, fitness and overall wellbeing by strengthening muscles, heart and lungs
- heart rate: the number of times your heart beats per minute
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- To become fitter you must 'work out'.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: warming up the body by carrying out physical activities increases heart rate and prepares the body for exercise. Move: moving enough to get your heart beating faster helps make your body stronger and fitter.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'fitness'
being strong and healthy, and having a body that can run, jump, play and easily do everyday things.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: To become fitter you must 'work out'. Correction: Fitness can develop in many different forms. Whenever you are challenging your body physically, this will help you to become fitter.
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