Myths about teaching can hold you back
- Year 10
- Year 10
Sleep and recovery
I can recognise the importance of rest and recovery on muscle repair.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Move: restoring energy levels with effective rest and recovery enables us to participate with maximum effort.
- Think: knowing that sleep is vital for recovery, repairing muscles and restoring energy, boosts training performance.
- Feel: when you are well-rested, your body feels more energised, focused and resilient during training.
- Connect: providing tips and encouragement for better sleep helps peers to motivate each other.
Keywords
Recovery - the process of getting better after physical or mental exertion
Rest - taking breaks to help the body and mind recover
Muscle repair - the process by which muscles heal and grow stronger
Common misconception
Training a lot more will automatically improve your fitness.
Without adequate rest within a training programme, the individual will have a higher chance of injury, decreased performance and chronic fatigue.
To help you plan your year 10 physical education lesson on: Sleep and recovery, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 10 physical education lesson on: Sleep and recovery, 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 4 physical education lessons from the Health and wellbeing: commitment to a personalised training plan unit, dive into the full secondary physical education curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
Additional materials, stopwatches, floor matts, mini whiteboards & pens, prepared post-it notes, paper & pens for poster creation
Content guidance
- Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
