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Science at key stage 3    (Year 9)

Unit 9B: Fit and healthy
Section 8: a. What else can we do to maintain fitness?

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Objectives
Children should learn:
  • how diet, smoking, alcohol and exercise can affect fitness and health

Activities

Outcomes
Children:
  • Remind pupils of the comparison of the human body to a properly working machine and ask them what else must be kept in good order if they are to remain fit. Establish that a healthy heart is essential to circulate blood. Ask pupils to use secondary sources of information to find out how diet, smoking, alcohol and exercise can affect the heart and about circulatory problems, eg arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure, which can be made worse by an unhealthy lifestyle. Help pupils to make a list of lifestyle changes that could reduce the chance of heart problems.
  • describe how diet and lack of exercise can worsen heart and circulation conditions
  • describe diets and forms of exercise that can lead to improvements in heart and circulation conditions

Points to note
  • Teachers will be aware of the need to be sensitive to the circumstances of individual pupils and their families.
  • Extension: pupils could dissect a heart from a butcher's shop to investigate the position and distribution of coronary arteries.

    • Safety

    • hands should be washed after handling animal material and benches wiped with disinfectant

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1. a. What do we mean by fit?
2. b. What do we mean by fit?
3. What helps the respiratory system to function?
4. What is the effect of smoking on the lungs and other body systems?
5. a. Why is diet important?
6. b. Why is diet important?
7. How does alcohol affect the body?
8. a. What else can we do to maintain fitness?
9. b. What else can we do to maintain fitness?
10. a. What effects do drugs have?
11. b. What effects do drugs have?
12. Are we healthier than our great-grandparents were?
13. Reviewing work