KS1 · Physical education · Year 1
Effect of exercise on our heartbeat
Health and wellbeing: the effects of exercise
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Your learning goal
I can identify changes in my heartbeat when I exercise.
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Effect of exercise on our heartbeat: 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 in my heartbeat when I exercise.
Key learning points
- Move: moving quickly or slowly causes our heart to beat faster or slower.
- Think: our heart pumps blood around the body to provide our muscles with energy.
- Think: our heartbeat gets faster when we exercise and slows down again when we rest.
- Feel: consistently trying hard shows courage.
- Connect: listening carefully shows a commitment to playing by the rules, enabling the activities to flow successfully
Words to know
- heartbeat
- the regular movement or sound that our heart makes as it sends blood around our body
- exercise
- being physically active while playing a game or performing an activity
- energy
- the ability to do work or move
Common mistakes
Some pupils may think that a fast heartbeat makes the body move faster rather than it being a response to exercise i.e. the heart acts like an engine and a fast heartbeat makes you run fast.
Your heartbeat usually changes because of an action or a feeling. When you do exercise, you need it to pump more blood to your muscles for energy so it changes its speed because of your exercising actions.
For parents, carers and teachers
- It is helpful to draw pupils' attention to their heartbeat at various points throughout the lesson so they can link the ideas with their own experience. You may also return to these ideas at various times throughout the school day.