KS2 · Physical education · Year 5
The cardiovascular system
Health and wellbeing: stamina, strength and flexibility
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Your learning goal
I can explain the functions of the cardiovascular system and how aerobic exercise affects our bodies.
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The cardiovascular system: 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 the functions of the cardiovascular system and how aerobic exercise affects our bodies.
Key learning points
- Move: when moving, we work hard to maintain an effort that increases our heart rate.
- Think: when we move with increased effort, our heart beats faster to pump blood around the body.
- Feel: making sure we are working hard to increase our heart rate, when performing activities, shows integrity.
- Connect: when our body is working hard, we should be aware of others and encourage them to keep going.
Words to know
- heart
- a strong, muscular organ inside your chest that pumps blood around your body
- exercise
- physical activity that improves or maintains health and fitness by strengthening muscles, heart and lungs
- cardiovascular system
- the body’s system that delivers blood, oxygen and nutrients through the blood vessels
Common mistakes
Some pupils might think that only oxygenated blood is transported around the body.
The body's cardiovascular system includes a group of organs and muscles that manage oxgenated blood and deoxygenated blood.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Useing red or blue objects in the lesson will help to visually represent blood leaving the heart (e.g. red and oxygen-rich) and blood going back towards the heart (e.g blue and oxygen-poor). However, highlight to pupils that blood is not blue in our body or veins.