Understand how your body responds to exercise
I can start to identify the way my body responds to exercise.
Understand how your body responds to exercise
I can start to identify the way my body responds to exercise.
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Lesson details
Key learning 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.
- 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.
Keywords
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 misconception
A fast heart rate and feeling of nausea is dangerous and you should stop exercising.
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.
To help you plan your year 7 physical education lesson on: Understand how your body responds to exercise, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 7 physical education lesson on: Understand how your body responds to exercise, 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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Equipment
1 circuit layout, 1 copy of the circuit station cards and 1 between 2 of the printed pupil worsheets. 4 - 8 floor mats, 2 benches.
Content guidance
- Risk assessment required - outdoor learning
- Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
