KS1 · Physical education · Year 1
Effect of exercise on our breathing
Health and wellbeing: the effects of exercise
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Your learning goal
I can identify changes to my breathing when I exercise.
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Effect of exercise on our breathing: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
What you’ll learn
I can identify changes to my breathing when I exercise.
Key learning points
- Move: exercise and rest causes our breathing to get faster and slower.
- Think: breathing faster and deeper enables our body to take in more oxygen, which is our body's energy.
- Feel: showing courage enables us to be brave and think of our own ideas.
- Connect: playing fairly with others shows gratitude so everyone can enjoy the game.
Words to know
- breathing
- the process of moving air into and out of the lungs to bring in oxygen
- exercise
- being physically active while playing a game or performing an activity
- oxygen
- an important gas needed by most life forms on Earth to survive
Common mistakes
Pupils may not recognise that during exercise, the depth of breathing changes as well as the speed per minute. Depth of breathing is a more abstract concept than how many breaths are taken per minute.
As well as taking more breaths per minute during exercise, a child will take deeper breaths each time. This is also a way for the body to get more oxygen.
For parents, carers and teachers
- When playing 'Energy eaters and oxygenators', pupils can be asked to predict what they think will happen to the energy in the body when the energy eaters are moving more quickly than the oxygenators, or when the oxygenators can carry 2 pieces of energy and the energy eaters only one.