Year 6 - Science
Healthy heart rate
Keeping healthy
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Unit Summary
This unit examines how diet, exercise, drugs, and lifestyle impact body function. It focuses on planning scientific enquiries, controlling variables, taking precise measurements, and recording complex data. Emphasis is on presenting findings, drawing conclusions, and evaluating scientific evidence.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to describe the impact of exercise on the human body.
Key Notes
- Your heart rate is how many times your heart beats each minute.
- Stethoscopes, smartwatches and pulse oximeters can measure heart rate.
- Your pulse can be felt at the wrist and other places where an artery is close to the skin.
- During exercise, your heart beats faster so that more blood circulates around your body delivering oxygen.
- Exercise strengthens your heart and improves your circulation.
Vocabulary To Learn
- heart rate: Heart rate is the number of times a heart beats each minute.
- oxygen: Oxygen is a gas in the air that is vital for living things.
- artery: Arteries are blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
- exercise: Exercise means using a lot of effort to move our bodies so that they stay fit and healthy.
- circulation: Circulation is the continuous movement of blood around the body, driven by a pumping heart.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils may think that the heart pumps air through the body, rather than blood, as part of a pneumatic-style system that powers the muscles.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the scientific idea in this lesson using two key points.
Your heart rate is how many times your heart beats each minute. Stethoscopes, smartwatches and pulse oximeters can measure heart rate.
2. Define this scientific word and use it in context. 'heart rate'
Heart rate is the number of times a heart beats each minute. Include the word in a full scientific explanation, not as a single label.
3. Correct this common scientific misunderstanding.
Mistake: Pupils may think that the heart pumps air through the body, rather than blood, as part of a pneumatic-style system that powers the muscles. Correction: Explain that the heart pumps blood around the body, beating faster when we exercise because it is transporting more oxygen within blood to keep the muscles working.
More Lessons In This Unit
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- Evidence about healthy lifestyle: presentation (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Healthy and sustainable proteins (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- Healthy hearts Study Guide
- Heart recovery time after exercise Study Guide
- Legal and illegal drugs Study Guide
- Monitoring and improving lifestyle choices (Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- Mushrooms and mycoprotein (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- The impact of a balanced diet Study Guide
- The impact of alcohol Study Guide
- The impact of smoking Study Guide
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