Animals, including humans: Circulation and health

Unit outcomes

Pupils who are secure will be able to:

Recall factors that improve someone’s health and those that impact health negatively and suggest improvements to someone’s health.
Describe the circulatory system as the heart and blood vessels transporting blood around the body and recall that the heart is a pump that pushes blood through the circulatory system.
Describe the pathway of blood through the circulatory system, including passing through the heart twice in a complete circuit through the body.
Describe some of the functions of blood, including transporting substances like oxygen, water and nutrients around the body.
Recall what is meant by heart rate and research using multiple websites to find reliable animal masses.
Identify the pattern between animals’ size and heart rate and quote values as evidence.
Describe how different exercises affect heart rate and explain why heart rate changes during exercise.
Describe what happens to heart rate during and after exercise and compare two sets of heart data to identify a link between heart rate and fitness.

When working scientifically, pupils who are secure will be able to:

Evaluate the trustworthiness of secondary sources that provide health advice.
Evaluate the model blood by considering a strength and a weakness when representing blood and suggesting improvements.
Compare class values and recognise when they do not match.
Use identified patterns to predict new values.
Write a method for an enquiry with consideration of equipment, the different versions of the changed variable and how to complete the measured variable.
Choose a suitable title and axis labels with units for the line graph and plot points on the line graph.