Lesson 1 - Healthy Hearts

• Identify exercises that promote a healthy heart.
• How and why we need to keep our hearts healthy.

Healthy heart, exercise, diet, lifestyle, habits, hydration, heartbeat and survive.

• Supports pupils understanding of the benefits of an active lifestyle on our hearts.
• Helps pupils to learn the importance of keeping our heart healthy.

• Lesson PPT.
• Paper, pens, and colours.
• Practical space e.g. hall

• Introduce the session with the lesson objectives.
• Explain what our heart does using slide 3.
• Show a video about how the heart works.
• Talk through the did you know facts about the heart on slides 5 – 7.

• Ask pupils what the two things are we can do to keep healthy – being active and eating healthily.
• Healthy heart habits activity: Working in small groups ask pupils to write down all the things they do to keep their heart healthy. Invite pupils to share what they do with the class.
• Whole class discussion activity: Ask pupils to identify which activities on slide 10 are NOT healthy heart activities and to explain why.
• Heartbeat activity: Working in pairs, ask pupils to perform the activities on slide 11. Pupils can then explain which ones make their heart beat the slowest and the fastest.
• Dance your heart out: Working in small groups pupils must plan out a ‘fitness dance’ to include activities which make their heartbeat both fast and slow.

• Explain the top tips for maintaining a healthy heart using slide 13.
• Promise your heart: Print out the heart template for each pupil and ask them to decorate their heart with all the ways they can keep it healthy.
• Reflection time: Recap the lesson with the class. Ask pupils what 3 things they have learnt today and what will you do differently next time.