Year 5 - Physical education
Flexibility
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 how flexibility affects the body and can perform static and dynamic flexibility activities to develop your own flexibility.
Key Notes
- Move: our muscles show flexibility when the body is moving and when it is still.
- Think: the more we stretch our muscles before and after exercise, the more this will increase our flexibility.
- Feel: continuing to improve our flexibility shows excellent resilience.
- Connect: cooperating with each other to help improve our flexibility ensures we stay motivated.
Vocabulary To Learn
- flexibility: the elasticity of muscles when stretching and the ability to move joints through a full range of motion
- stretch: a movement in which you gently pull or extend your muscles to make them longer
- extend: making a body part lengthened or straighten
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Flexibility can only be challenged when we are holding a specific postion and staying still.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: our muscles show flexibility when the body is moving and when it is still. Think: the more we stretch our muscles before and after exercise, the more this will increase our flexibility.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'flexibility'
the elasticity of muscles when stretching and the ability to move joints through a full range of motion.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Flexibility can only be challenged when we are holding a specific postion and staying still. Correction: Flexibility of our muscles can be performed when still (static) and on the move (dynamic).
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