Hydration and fuelling your body for exercise
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can demonstrate how keeping hydrated and fuelling my body correctly can give me enough energy to participate successfully in training.
Key learning points
- Move: applying maximum effort and the correct technique leads to success.
- Think: knowing when to increase hydration and adapt your fuelling enables us to gain the most success from training.
- Feel: training feels good and is effective when correct fuelling and hydration are in place to provide enough energy.
- Connect: listening to peers and providing feedback on fuelling habits allows an opportunity to learn from each other.
Keywords
Hydration - getting enough water into your body to keep it healthy and functioning properly
Fuelling - eating and drinking the right foods and liquids to give your body the energy it needs to perform well
Energy - the ability to perform activities and sustain effort
Common misconception
Underestimating the amount of water the body needs throughout the day (not just during exercise) to maintain hydration.
The general recommendation is 2 litres of water per day, however when training, more should be consumed.
Teacher tip
There is a lot of content in this lesson. If your lesson is less than 60 minutes, combine learning cycles 2 and 3 by adding the fuel meters and fuel cards from cycle 3, to the cicuit activities in cycle 2.
Equipment
additional materials, skipping ropes, pupils own water bottles, 4 - 8 benches, central timer
Content guidance
Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Prior knowledge starter quiz
4 Questions
Q1.What must be completed before exercise begins?
Q2.What practice sets designated areas, rules and limits to keep people safe?
Q3.How does creating a risk assessment for a training programme make participants feel?
Q4.What kind of ongoing assessment is needed if not every risk can be planned for?
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.On average, how much water should be consumed daily?
Q2.When we exercise, what needs to happen to our water consumption?
Q3.How does training feel when correct fuelling and hydration are in place?
Q4.What can we do by sharing and reflecting on our fuelling and hydration habits?
To help you plan your 10 physical education lesson on: Hydration and fuelling your body for exercise, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your 10 physical education lesson on: Hydration and fuelling your body for 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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