Year 6 - Science
Monitoring and improving lifestyle choices (Climate Change & Sustainability)
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 record and monitor lifestyle choices over a period of time.
Key Notes
- Lots of factors contribute towards a healthy lifestyle, including diet, physical activity levels and sleep patterns.
- A lifestyle journal is similar to a diary and can be used to track daily habits and activities.
- A lifestyle journal can be used to log physical activity, diet and sleep patterns.
- Analysing the data collected in a lifestyle journal can highlight areas for improved health goals.
Vocabulary To Learn
- lifestyle: A person's lifestyle is the way they choose to live.
- physical activity: Physical activity means moving your body. It includes activities like walking, dancing, playing sports and doing housework.
- journal: A journal is a type of diary that can be used to record thoughts and ideas or used to keep track of activities and habits.
- analyse: To analyse something is to look at it carefully in order to explain or interpret it.
- data: Data is information collected during an investigation. It may be numbers, symbols, pictures or text.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils may think that being healthy can be achieved through physical fitness, not taking into account anything else.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the scientific idea in this lesson using two key points.
Lots of factors contribute towards a healthy lifestyle, including diet, physical activity levels and sleep patterns. A lifestyle journal is similar to a diary and can be used to track daily habits and activities.
2. Define this scientific word and use it in context. 'lifestyle'
A person's lifestyle is the way they choose to live. Include the word in a full scientific explanation, not as a single label.
3. Correct this common scientific misunderstanding.
Mistake: Pupils may think that being healthy can be achieved through physical fitness, not taking into account anything else. Correction: Explain that a range of different factors contribute to a healthy lifestyle, including eating a balanced diet, getting a good amount of sleep and taking part in activities that help our mental well being.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Evidence about healthy lifestyle: do and review (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Evidence about healthy lifestyle: presentation (non-statutory) Study Guide
- Healthy and sustainable proteins (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- Healthy heart rate Study Guide
- Healthy hearts Study Guide
- Heart recovery time after exercise Study Guide
- Legal and illegal drugs 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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