Higher:
Can take and compare heart rate measurements at rest and after physical exercise
Middle:
Is able to measure heart rate and explain why different heart rates have occurred
Lower:
Can identify causes that make the heart rate to increase
Higher:
Is able to justify why exercise is important for health and what the consequences are of not exercising enough
Middle:
Can plan an appropriate schedule of exercise to carry out each week for good health
Lower:
Is able to write a list of activities which will raise a person's heart rate
Lesson Recap Starter: Think back to the last lesson. Explain how your heart moves blood around your body.
Lesson Starter: Explain what you need to do to make your heart beat faster.
Talk about how they feel during PE lessons or a physical activity.
Presentation - Starter Slide
Answer questions and take part in activities during the presentation. Stop the presentation at the relevant slides: Talk Partners; AfLs; Songs. Take part in the Choral Response Questions activity (see Assessment section) after the Keywords/Rocket Words slide.
Key Concept:
During this unit, each lesson contains a key concept question housed in the '30 Second Challenge' slide. To help children master this content so the knowledge moves from their short term memory to their long term memory, at the beginning of the follow on lesson the question from the previous lesson is revisited.
The questions covered during this unit include:
1. What is the function of blood?
2. What is the function of blood vessels?
3. Explain how your heart moves blood around your body.
4. Explain the difference between your blood pressure and your pulse.
5. Explain how cigarettes harm your body.
6. What are the different food groups? Explain what you can do to eat a balanced diet.
Expert Film: Kevin Mantle, a personal trainer at Norfolk Health & Fitness, discusses what affects heart rate.
Talk about what blood pressure is and how some people can be ill if it is too high and some can be ill if it is too low. Discuss the importance of exercise to keep the heart muscle beating properly.
How we deliver the Gatsby Benchmarks:
2 - Learning from career and labour market information: Pop along to Developing Experts career’s zone to find out about jobs in your area.
4 - Linking curriculum learning to careers: This unit showcases careers that relate to heart and health. Access our 360° virtual work tours.
7 - Encounters with Further and Higher Education: Pop along to Developing Experts career’s zone to find out about training providers in your area.
Presentation - Expert Film.
Beating Pulses
Watch the Mission Assignment film.
Children will collect data on their heart rate and plot it in a bar chart not line graph. Each child should measure their pulse for 30 seconds and double it to find their BPM (beats per minute). Measure the heart rate after each of the following activities: Sitting at rest for 1 minute - Walking for 1 minute - Jogging for 1 minute - Running for 1 minute - Sprinting for 1 minute.
The pulse should be measured using two fingers (not thumb) on an extended wrist or the jugular vein in the neck. This is because the thumb has its own pulse, so you can get a false reading.
The children should record their results on Handout 1 - Beating Pulses, then use their results to plot a bar chart.
Beating Pulses
Stopwatch
Pen
Handout 1 - Beating Pulses
Fact File Quiz
Complete a fact file about the fours parts of blood. Ask the children to share their meanings with their talk partners for the four parts which make up blood: red blood cells; white blood cells; plasma; platelets.
Using Handout 2 - Fact File Quiz ask the children to record their definitions for each job part explaining what each part does. The children are to use secondary sources of information. Website www.blood.co.uk is a great site to use to find out the function of each of the four types of blood. Ask the children to create a quiz to test each other about the key facts. The quiz questions need to cover the parts of the blood, blood pressure, and heart rate. Once they have created their quizzes ask the children to think about how they would like to manage the quiz challenge then proceed!
At the end of the lesson ask the children to nominate children to each explain what each blood part does and record the clearest answers on the board.
Quiz
With their talk partners, the children are to go through the quiz at the end of the presentation and answer the questions.
Handout 2 - Fact-File Quiz
Quiz in presentation
What can make your heart beat faster / slow down?
How can we measure our heart rate?
What problems can be caused by a fast /slow heart rate?
Quizzes in pupil zone.
Unit knowledge organiser and test available in unit documents area.
My heart rate increases when...
My heart rate increases because...
When my heart rate increases,...
The Science Behind the Science
A heart rate (or pulse) is the number of times that a heart beats in a minute. It can be measured by gently pressing your fingertips to blood vessels in the neck, wrist, or inner elbow, and then counting the number of pulses over a minute. The thumb should not be used to take this measurement because it has its own pulse. The average resting heart rate for adults is between 60 and 100 beats per minute. However, this can vary depending on the individual. Well-trained althletes, for example, can have resting heart rates between 40 and 60 beats per minute. Heart rate can differ based on age, body weight, air temperature, use of medication, emotional state, and whether we are resting or exercising.
Blood pressure is a measure of the pushing force as blood vessels swell and shrink to carry blood around the body. Having high blood pressure (referred to as hypertension) can put additional pressure on vital organs and increase the risk of strokes and heart attacks. However, it may not cause any noticeable day-to-day symptoms. Healthy lifestyle choices such as limiting alcohol intake, avoiding smoking, and exercising regularly, can lower the chances of having high blood pressure.
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