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Sports talent

Science Year 6
This unit is part of Year 6 Science The Science of Sport

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Objectives

Are you born with sports talent or can training alone get you to the top? Explore the science behind biological and environmental characteristics in the sports arena.

Science Objectives
i) Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents.

Working Scientifically

  1. Take measurements, using a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings when appropriate.
  2. Report and present findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms.
  3. Identify scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments.

Extended Writing Opportunity
Information text: Create a sports information leaflet about the factors that impact on sports talent.

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Note that some traits are inherited and others develop due to environmental factors.
  • Investigate some inherited traits that impact positively on sports performance.

Activities

  1. Identify the influence of inheritance and environmental factors on sports performance.
  2. Create a sports information leaflet on factors that impact on sports talent.
  3. Identify some inherited personal traits that may impact on sports performance.

Investigation - analysing secondary sources
Identify the influence of inheritance and environmental factors on sports performance.

Vocabulary
Inheritance, environmental factors, genetic, muscles, heart rate, cardiac capacity, lung capacity

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