Year 7 - Physical education
Understand how your body responds to exercise
Outdoor adventurous activities: teamwork, fitness and movement skills
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Unit Summary
This unit explores skillful movement and physical fitness through teamwork challenges. Pupils will develop teamwork skills and understand both why and how to warm up for different types of physical activity.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to start to identify the way your body responds to exercise.
Key Notes
- Move: completing exercises correctly and safely will develop your strength and endurance.
- Move: to continue working for an extended period of time requires effective pacing.
- Think: heart rate, breathing rate and body temperature all increase in response to exercise.
- Feel: being able to keep going with challenging exercises requires determination.
- Connect: support for one another can help you achieve higher outcomes.
Vocabulary To Learn
- safe: protecting yourself from danger or risk by completing exercises with good form will prevent injury
- determination: the quality you show when you set your mind to achieving something and you don't let anything stop you
- circuit: exercises can be organised in a particular order where you start and finish at the same place
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- A fast heart rate and feeling of nausea is dangerous and you should stop exercising.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: completing exercises correctly and safely will develop your strength and endurance. Move: to continue working for an extended period of time requires effective pacing.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'safe'
protecting yourself from danger or risk by completing exercises with good form will prevent injury.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: A fast heart rate and feeling of nausea is dangerous and you should stop exercising. Correction: This is quite normal and a sign that we are challenging our fitness. It is important to get used to the way our body feels when we start to exercise. Seek guidance if this concerns you.
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- Explore your school site Study Guide
- Fitness challenges as a team Study Guide
- Orienteering Study Guide
- Playground games and fundamental movement skills Study Guide
- Problem solving Study Guide
- Problem solving challenges as a team Study Guide
- Sheep pen communication challenge as a team Study Guide
- Social skill challenges Study Guide
- Trust exercises Study Guide
- Working as a team to raise your heart rate Study Guide
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