Healthy hearts!

Provided Resources

• Heartbeat Sheet resource

Additional Resources

• PE kits
• Timers for each pair
• Different PE equipment (hoops, skipping ropes, beanbags, etc.)
• Clipboards and pencils
• Whistle or instrument to mark change of activity
• Elastic bands (one kept in the freezer and one at room temperature)

Weblinks
Animation about the role of the heart from www.aboutkidshealth.ca
BBC Bitesize: The Major Organs of the Body from www.bbc.co.uk
Guide on taking your pulse from www.cyh.com

Teaching

• Understand that exercise makes the heart work harder and is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle
• Explore the idea of warming up muscles through a simple investigation
• Warm up and then carousel around different physical activities, counting rate of heartbeat
• Observe and record the effects of exercise (warm skin, thirsty, heart rate increased, breathing heavily).
• Consider questions such as: why is exercise important for keeping healthy? What kinds of exercise do you enjoy doing? What exercise can you do outside school?

Activities

1. Understand that exercise makes the heart work and that warming up before exercise is important
2. Know that some exercise makes their heart beat fast and some slows it down
3. Begin to understand that they can observe changes and record data in a simple table

Investigation
Explore the idea of warming up muscles by investigating what happens when cold elastic bands are stretched without being warmed up.

Warm up and then carousel around different physical activities, counting rate of heartbeat. (Exploring, Observing over time)

Vocabulary
Heart, beating, healthy, exercise