KS2 · Physical education · Year 6
Improve my cardiovascular fitness
Health and wellbeing: stamina, strength and flexibility refined
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can explain how the cardiovascular system works and can choose activities to help improve my own cardiovascular endurance.
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Improve my cardiovascular fitness: 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 explain how the cardiovascular system works and can choose activities to help improve my own cardiovascular endurance.
Key learning points
- Move: increasing the intensity of my actions will increase my heart rate.
- Think: regularly moving in ways that increase my heart rate, helps my heart to stay healthy.
- Think: a healthy cardiovascular system helps me to perform well in a range of sporting activities.
- Feel: choosing to take part in activities that challenge my cardiovascular fitness requires self-motivation.
- Connect: recognising other people's differences demonstrates respect.
Words to know
- heart
- a strong, muscular organ inside your chest that pumps blood around your body
- intensity
- how strong, deep or extreme something is
- cardiovascular system
- the body’s system that delivers blood, oxygen and nutrients through the blood vessels
Common mistakes
Some pupils may not recognise the heart as a muscle because we cannot consciously move it in the same way we can other muscles in the body.
The body has voluntary and involuntary muscles. The heart is an involuntary muscle that doesn't require conscious thought to make it contract and send blood around the body. Exercising regularly can improve the strength and endurance of our heart.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Pupils will have varying levels of cardiovascular endurance, so the way individuals rank the intensity of activity will vary. There are no specific correct/incorrect answers to the ranking task. Use your judgement around the sensitivity of pupils sharing this information with the whole group.