Fitness
I can explain what it means to be fit and I know how to develop my fitness through taking part in physical activities.
Fitness
I can explain what it means to be fit and I know how to develop my fitness through taking part in physical activities.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Move: warming up the body by carrying out physical activities increases heart rate and prepares the body for exercise.
- Move: moving enough to get your heart beating faster helps make your body stronger and fitter.
- Think: knowing that strength, flexibility and stamina are all important for our fitness.
- Feel: showing integrity and self-motivation as we exercise enables us to try our hardest.
- Connect: cooperating and encouraging when exercising helps everyone to work hard.
Keywords
Fitness - being strong and healthy, and having a body that can run, jump, play and easily do everyday things
Exercise - physical activity that improves or maintains health, fitness and overall wellbeing by strengthening muscles, heart and lungs
Heart rate - the number of times your heart beats per minute
Common misconception
To become fitter you must ‘work out’.
Fitness can develop in many different forms. Whenever you are challenging your body physically, this will help you to become fitter.
To help you plan your year 5 physical education lesson on: Fitness, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 5 physical education lesson on: Fitness, 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.
Explore more key stage 2 physical education lessons from the Health and wellbeing: stamina, strength and flexibility unit, dive into the full primary physical education curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
30+ cones, additional materials, skipping ropes - 1 each, various play equipment, mats (optional) 1 between 2, floor markers
Content guidance
- Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
