Circulation and health
Exploring the heart and circulatory system through models and enquiries and considering how lifestyle choices affect our 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.
Suggested prior learning
Animals: Digestion and food
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Factors affecting health
Lesson 2: The heart and circulatory system
Lesson 3: Blood
Lesson 4: Heart rate
Lesson 5: Investigating exercise and heart rate
Lesson 6: Heart rate and fitness
Key skills
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Key vocabulary
anomaly (Y5)
balanced diet (Y3)
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Assessment – Science Y6: Circulation and health
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Knowledge organiser – Science Y6: Circulation and health
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Cross-curricular opportunities
English: Spoken language, Reading, Writing – composition.
Mathematics: Number – number and place value, Measurement, Statistics.
Design technology: Cooking and nutrition.
RSE: Mental wellbeing, Physical health and fitness, Healthy eating, Drugs, alcohol and tobacco, Health and prevention.
Physical education
British values: Rule of law, Mutual respect.