Explorify logo Homepage
  • Why Explorify?
  • Teacher support
  • Log in
  • Sign up free Sign up
  • Explorify logo Homepage
  • Why Explorify?
  • Teacher support
  • Login
Helpful reads

Exercise your mind and body!

Let's focus in on activities around the human body and consider how exercise and environment affect it!

Share

  • Share via email

You're bound to find something fun in this list to animate your pupils and get them thinking like scientists. Why not take it further and get your class up and active after their Explorify time with some BBC Supermovers exercises?

 

Start by looking at these videos that will help your pupils to observe what the body is doing in some popular sports.

- Watch a runner using a prosthetic blade in Bladerunner and spark a conversation with your class.

- Explore different swimming techniques and movement in the water with backstroke swimming, butterfly swimming and synchronised swimming.

- Explore forces with a ball being kicked in slow motion in Fancy Footwork

 

Plan some investigations and ask your class some big questions, firstly on how we fuel our bodies:

- Which breakfast is best?

- What if you only ate chips for a month?

 

Explore how we use our bodies to make journeys and keep fit:

- What if we didn't use transport to get to school

- How could you measure the benefits of walking?

And how fitness impacts the body into old age:

- How can we stay fit and healthy as we get older?

 

Consider challenges for the body if you were able to live in unexpected or challenging ways:

- What if humans hibernated?

- What if humans lived underwater?

- What if the average lifespan of a human was 200 years?

- How would you stay warm in the artic?

- Design a spacesuit in Suits you.

 

Then finally challenge your class to observe differences and similarities with some popular Odd One Out Activities

- Get your blood pumping

- It takes more than guts

 

Happy Explorifying!

 

Image credit: fancycrave1 on Pixabay

 

Last updated 7th March 2023

Share

  • Share via email

Did you find this article useful?

More from Helpful reads

View all
Fun science with feathered friends!

Explore the science related to birds and their habitats.

Read now
'Tis the season to have fun with science

Deck the school hall with boughs of science…

Read now

Other Teacher support:

Science teaching support How to use Explorify What's new Science leader toolkit Downloads

Join Explorify today to take your class on an exciting science adventure!

We use cookies to make Explorify even more awesome for you. Find out more.

Explorify logo

About Explorify

  • How to use Explorify
  • Our story
  • Partners
  • Why Explorify?

Teacher support

  • Downloads
  • Helpful reads
  • Science leader toolkit
  • Science teaching support

Support

  • Contact us
  • FAQ
  • Privacy and Terms of Use
  • What’s new?
Wellcome Trust Wellcome Trust Funded by Wellcome

Stem Learning logo Primary Science Teaching Trust logo

Explorify Staffroom on Facebook Explorify on Twitter Explorify on Instagram Explorify on Linkedin Explorify on Tiktok

Grant number 223594/Z/21/Z

Managed by STEM Learning and the Primary Science Teaching Trust