Being active, fit and healthy
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can participate in activities that help me to enjoy being active so I stay fit and healthy.
Key learning points
- Move: warming up safely requires a gentle increase in intensity and must prepare our bodies so we avoid injury.
- Move: using correct techniques to warm up our bodies helps us to stay healthy during exercise.
- Think: understanding different components of fitness can help to ensure we warm up thoroughly and exercise effectively.
- Feel: warming up before intense exercise demonstrates self-discipline and responsibility.
- Connect: working with others and having fun while being active shows respect.
Keywords
Healthy - being fit and mobile, free from illness and able to easily do everyday things
Exercise - physical activity that improves or maintains health, fitness and overall well-being by strengthening muscles, heart and lungs
Activities - tasks you do for fun, learning and/or exercise
Common misconception
Some pupils might think that being active and fit requires gruelling, high impact activity, that maximises heart rate and leads to physical exhaustion.
Activities should suit the goal you are trying to achieve. High impact, exhausting activities are suited to improve cardiovascular endurance. Low impact, relaxing exercising are suited to developing other components of fitness e.g. flexibility.
Teacher tip
Few exercises will only improve one component, e.g pupils may get out of breath doing squats so there is a secondary benefit to cardiovascular endurance, however squats are best for improving muscular strength. Discussions prompted are valuable and should be encouraged for a 'best fit' approach.
Equipment
60+ cones
Content guidance
Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Prior knowledge starter quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Which of these words describes a body that can easily do everyday movements and actions?
Q2.Which of these activities would you do before playing a competitive game?
Q3.What could stop you from regularly being active?
Q4.How often should we move our bodies during the day to stay healthy?
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.At what intensity should a warm up be performed?
Q2.Which of these are components of fitness?
Q3.Which of these components of fitness can low impact stretching help to improve?
Q4.What characteristics do you need, to make sure you always warm up safely and appropriately?
To help you plan your 6 physical education lesson on: Being active, fit and healthy, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your 6 physical education lesson on: Being active, fit and healthy, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom.
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