Download Jump Start! - Healthwatch Bracknell Forest

Jump
Start!
Skipping Plan
(Year 6)
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This plan is for a one hour lesson.
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The aim of the lesson is to facilitate learning about the heart and how your pupils can
keep it healthy.
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The top three pupils in your class will be given certificates for their efforts and at the
end of the session each learner will be allowed to take their skipping rope home to
keep with a leaflet with information on maintaining a healthy heart.
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Please send the names of the first, second and third placed pupils to
[email protected] and I will arrange and
send the certificates to you.
Matthew Clift
Project Manager (Prevention and Self-Care)
Bracknell Forest Council and Bracknell and Ascot Clinical Commissioning Group
www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/selfcare
jsna.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/self-care-guide
Jump Start! Lesson Plan (Year 6)
Your Heart
Your heart is about the same size as a pear. It sits in your ribcage, behind
your sternum, which is the bone between the two sides of your ribs.
The main job of the heart is to pump blood to every part of the body. The
blood carries oxygen and all the food, vitamins and minerals that your body
needs to move, think, grow and repair itself. At the same time the blood picks
up stuff that your body doesn't need and takes it to those parts of your body
that get rid of waste (your lungs, kidneys and liver).
The walls of the heart are made of really strong muscles that squeeze and
relax to pump blood around the body. It does this about 90 times a minute if
you're a child and 70 times a minute if you are an adult. Your blood is pumped
all around your body and gets back to your heart in about a minute.
Your heart will be healthy if you:
Exercise every day
You need to exercise your heart by making it work harder for at least 30
minutes a day.
Eat a healthy diet
Too much fatty food will block up the arteries with fat and your heart will have
to work harder and harder just to do its regular job of pumping blood round
your body.
Drink lots of water every day rather than fizzy drinks.
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Jump Start! Lesson Plan (Year 6)
Skipping and
Heart Quiz
Challenge
The aim of the challenge is to get as many points as possible either by skipping or by
answering the quiz questions correctly.
1 point for each skip
5 point for answering a question correctly
Skipping Activity 1
• How many different ways can you keep the rope moving without jumping over it?
• Each individual is given one minute for this creative challenge
• Each different way scores 1 points
• Whistle to start and stop activity
Quiz Question 1
How many chambers does the heart have: 3, 4, 5 or 6?
Answer: The heart has four chambers – 5 points for a correct answer
Quiz Question 2
The Movement of blood through the heart is called?
A, Circulation
B, Locomotion
C, Running
D, Heart pump
Answer: A - When blood moves through the heart and body it is circulating – 5 points for a
correct answer
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Jump Start! Lesson Plan (Year 6)
Skipping and
Heart Quiz
Challenge
Skipping Activity 2
• How many consecutive skips can you perform going forwards in one minute?
• Each jump scores 1 point
• Whistle to start and stop activity
Quiz Question 3
The beating sound your heart makes comes from?
A, Blood going in the wrong direction
B, Valves closing
C, The heart skipping beats
D, Your ears playing tricks on you
Answer: B - The beating sounds come from the valves in your heart closing – 5 points
for a correct answer
Quiz Question 4
With circulation, the heart provides your body with?
A, Oxygen
B, Nutrients
C, A way to get rid of waste
D, All of the above
Answer: D- Circulation provides your body with oxygen, nutrients and a way to get rid of
waste – 5 points for a correct answer
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Jump Start! Lesson Plan (Year 6)
Skipping and
Heart Quiz
Challenge
Skipping Activity 3
• Skipping as fast as you can, how many jumps can you perform before a miss occurs
• 3 minutes for this challenge
• Each jump in the longest run without a miss scores 1 point
• Whistle to start and stop activity
Quiz Question 5
What part of the heart acts like doors controlling the flow of blood in the heart?
A, Valves
B, Heart dams
C, Kidneys
D, Chambers
Answer: A - Valves act like the doors of your heart – Opening to allow blood through and
closing to make sure blood doesn’t flow the wrong way – 5 points for a correct answer
Quiz Question 6
What organ filters waste from your blood?
A, Heart
B, Lungs
C, Brain
D, Kidneys
Answer: D - Kidneys filter waste from your blood – 5 points for a correct answer
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Jump Start! Lesson Plan (Year 6)
Skipping and
Heart Quiz
Challenge
Skipping Activity 4
• In pairs how many consecutive skips can you and your partner do?
• 3 minutes for this challenge
• Each jump in the longest run without a miss scores 1 point
• Whistle to start and stop activity
Quiz question 7
You can keep your heart strong by?
A, Eating heart shaped sweets
B, Being active and eating healthily
C, Smoking
D, Sleeping 18 hours a day
Answer: B - Being active and eating healthily can help keep your heart healthy – 5 points
for a correct answer
Skipping Activity 5
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In groups of four or five can you devise a short routine where all the skips are
synchronised?
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5 minutes for this challenge
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Teacher to award so if there 10 group the winners would get 10 points each and the
lowest group would get 1 point each
End of Challenge! Well done to everybody who took part!
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Jump Start! Lesson Plan (Year 6)
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