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QCA

Science at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 5)

Unit 5A: Keeping healthy

QCA

Expectations

at the end of this unit

most children will:
identify the components of a healthy and varied diet and describe how an idea about the effect of diet on health was tested; recognise some harmful effects of drugs; recognise that during exercise the heart beats faster to take blood more rapidly to the muscles; make careful measurements of pulse rate, represent these in suitable graphs and explain what the graphs show

some children will not have made so much progress and will: identify some foods needed for a healthy and varied diet and some harmful effects of drugs; recognise that pulse rate is a measure of how fast the heart is beating and make measurements of pulse rate

some children will have progressed further and will also: explain some early evidence for the effect of diet on health; explain why repeated measurements of pulse rate should be made and why it is important to test the effects of exercise on the pulse rate of several people


Sections in this unit

This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
1. Introduction
2. A poor diet
3. A varied diet
4. Exercising
5. The heart and lungs
6. Measuring pulse rate
7. Fast and slow pulse rates
8. Exercise and pulse rate
9. Drugs, tobacco, alcohol and health