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Lesson 2 - Healthy Bodies

Year 5

Year 6

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Lesson overview

Lesson Objectives
  • How to keep our bodies fit and healthy.
  • Types of exercise for each body part.
Key Vocabulary

Healthy body, exercise, strength, flexibility, energy, mood, weight, movement, bones, muscles, heart, fitness, confidence, relaxed and diseases.

Curriculum Links
  • Supports pupils understanding of how an active lifestyle benefits their physical health.
  • Supports pupils understanding of the risks of an inactive lifestyle.
  • Helps pupils to understand the importance of regular exercise to keep our body healthy.
Equipment and Resources
  • Lesson PPT, paper, pen and colours, practical space e.g. hall.

Lesson activities

Starter Activity
  • Introduce the session with the lesson objectives.
  • Explain why we need to look after and move our bodies using slides 3 and 4.
  • Talk through the skeletal and muscular system and the top 10 facts about bones and muscles on slides 5 to 8.
  • Activity: Ask pupils to list down all the different types of exercise they can do and to put their list of activities into different categories.
Main Activity
  • Explain all the benefits of exercise using slide 10.
  • Activity: Ask pupils to discuss how much exercise they do every week. Invite pupils to share what they do with the class.
  • Exercise your body parts activity: Ask pupils to write down 2 exercises or activities they could do to strengthen each of the body parts listed on slide 12. Ask pupils to plan out a mini circuit of activities to complete in a 15-minute period. Pupils can complete their circuits and share with another group.
  • Show the video about what humans need to stay healthy on slide 13.
Plenary
  • Healthy body goals activity: Ask pupils what 3 goals they could set themselves to help improve their body and what 3 actions they can you do to help them achieve their goals.
  • 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.

Related Downloads

  • Lesson Plan - Healthy Body L2.
  • Resource - Healthy Body R2.

Lessons in this unit

Lesson Plan Content

Lesson 1 - Healthy Hearts
Lesson 2 - Healthy Bodies
Lesson 3 - Team Games
Lesson 4 - Outdoor Adventure
Lesson 5 - Team Games
Lesson 6 - Outdoor Adventure
Be happy. Be healthy.

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