# Lesson 149: Exercise and movement

🔬 SCIENCE (40 Lessons) • 🟣 D. Our Body and Health

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## Objective

I can tell what exercise is, name different ways to move my body, and explain how moving helps my heart, muscles, and bones stay healthy.

## Materials

- Safe open space for simple movements (inside or outside)
- Timer or clock (for 30-second or 1-minute moves)
- Simple picture cards of children walking, running, jumping, and stretching
- Crayons or markers
- Notebook or worksheet for exercise drawings

## Mini-lesson — Exercise and movement

Our body is made to move. When we move on purpose to help our body, it is called exercise.

What is exercise?

- Exercise is moving your body to stay strong and healthy.
- It can be fast or slow, but it should make your body work.
- Playing outside, running, dancing, and jumping are all types of exercise.

Different kinds of movement

- Walking is gentle movement that warms up the body.
- Running and jumping make your heart beat faster.
- Stretching helps your muscles stay loose and ready.
- Dancing is a fun way to move to music.

How exercise helps our body

- Exercise makes our heart stronger so it can pump blood.
- It helps our muscles and bones grow strong.
- Moving can give us more energy and help us sleep better.
- Exercise can make us feel happy and calm.

Move, then rest

- It is good to move every day and also have rest time.
- We listen to our body. If we feel tired or sore, we slow down.
- We drink water after moving to help our body.

A healthy day has time for moving, time for resting, and time for eating healthy food.

Picture strip: Move your body, help your heart

Running and jumping

Stretch and rest

## Guided Practice — Move, notice, and talk

You will try simple movements, then notice how your body feels and talk about it.

1. Safe space: Find a safe place to move with an adult. Check that there is room and no sharp corners nearby.
2. Warm-up walk: Walk slowly around for 30 seconds. How does your body feel? Is your heart beating slowly or quickly?
3. Run or march: Now run in place or march with high knees for 30 seconds. Place a hand on your chest. Is your heart beating faster now?
4. Jumping: Do 10 small jumps. Notice your breathing. Is it a little faster?
5. Stretch: Reach your arms up high, then bend to touch your toes (if you can). Hold each stretch for 5 seconds.
6. Rest and talk: Sit down. Take a few slow breaths. Talk about how your heart, breathing, and muscles felt when you moved and when you rested.
7. Draw a movement picture: In your notebook, draw yourself doing one exercise (running, jumping, or dancing). Label it with a word like "run" or "jump".
8. Use the tracing pad: Choose words like run, jump, move, exercise, or strong and trace them. Say a sentence such as "Exercise helps my body."

Tracing Pad
Lines
Trace
Pen

## Practice 1 — Move and feel your heart

Try short movements and notice how your heart and breathing change.

1. Place your hand gently on your chest when you are sitting. Feel your heart beat if you can.
2. Stand up and do 10 slow marches on the spot. Then stop and feel your heart again.
3. Now do 10 small jumps or star jumps. Stop and feel your heart and breathing. Are they faster now?
4. Draw a small chart with three pictures: "sitting", "marching", "jumping". Under each, draw a happy face if you feel good and a small arrow up if your heart got faster.
5. Talk about what you noticed: "When I moved more, my heart beat faster."

## Practice 2 — My movement diary

Think about how you move during a normal day.

1. Fold your page into three parts and label them: "Morning", "Afternoon", and "Evening".
2. In the morning box, draw one way you move, such as walking to school or stretching when you wake up.
3. In the afternoon box, draw an active game, like playing tag, riding a scooter, or running at the park.
4. In the evening box, draw a gentle movement, such as slow dancing or stretching.
5. Under each picture, write a short label like "I run" or "I dance".

## Practice 3 — Exercise choice stories

Listen to each short story and choose the more active choice.

1. A child can watch TV for a long time or play outside for a while. Which choice helps their body move more? Why?
2. At the park, a child can sit on a bench the whole time or join a running game with friends. Which one is exercise?
3. Inside, a child can lie on the floor doing nothing or put on music and dance. Which one helps their heart and muscles?
4. Make your own story with two choices: one still and one moving. Circle the exercise choice and tell why it is better for health.
5. Draw a small picture to match your story and label it with a word like "exercise" or "movement".

## Quick Check — Exercise and movement

Answer each question about exercise and movement. Think about how moving your body helps you.

1) What is exercise?

Eating lots of sweets. Moving your body on purpose to stay healthy. Going to sleep in the middle of the day.
Exercise means moving your body on purpose to help it stay healthy.

2) Which is a kind of exercise?

Lying still all day. Only watching TV. Running and jumping outside.
Running and jumping are both exercises.

3) Which movement is gentle?

Walking slowly. Sprinting as fast as you can. Jumping high all the time.
Walking slowly is a gentle movement.

4) What happens to your heart when you exercise?

It stops working. It beats faster to pump blood around your body. It turns into a rock.
When we move, our heart beats faster to send blood around our body.

5) Which group shows ways to exercise?

Sleeping, sitting, watching TV. Eating sweets, drinking fizzy drinks. Running, dancing, jumping.
Running, dancing, and jumping are all ways to exercise.

6) Which sentence is true?

Exercise helps our muscles and bones stay strong. Exercise makes our body weaker. Exercise is only for grown-ups.
Exercise helps muscles and bones grow strong for children and adults.

7) A child wants to move. Which is a good choice?

Sitting and staring at a wall. Playing a running game outside. Lying on the floor all day.
Playing a running game helps the body move and exercise.

8) Which list shows mostly active things?

Sleeping, sitting, eating. Talking on the phone, lying down, watching TV. Riding a bike, jumping rope, dancing.
Riding a bike, jumping rope, and dancing are active movements.

9) How can exercise make you feel?

Happy and full of energy. Like a statue that never moves. Exactly the same as not moving.
Moving can help us feel happy and full of energy.

10) What should you do after you exercise?

Never rest again. Have some water and rest for a short time. Eat only sweets.
After moving, it is good to drink water and rest a little.

11) Which picture shows a child exercising?

A child sleeping in bed. A child sitting and watching a screen for hours. A child running and kicking a ball.
Running and kicking a ball is exercise.

12) How often is it good for children to move their bodies?

Every day, even with some rest times. Only once a year. Never, moving is not needed.
It is healthy for children to move every day, with rest as needed.

13) A child says, "I like to dance to music in my room." Dancing is…

Not exercise at all. A fun kind of exercise. Only for robots.
Dancing is a fun way to exercise and move your body.

14) Which choice shows a healthy movement habit?

Playing active games most days and also resting. Never moving at all. Only sitting inside every day.
Playing active games most days and resting is a healthy habit.

15) Why is it important to learn about exercise and movement?

So we never smile. So we stay still all day. So we can choose activities that help our body stay strong and healthy.
Knowing about exercise helps us choose activities that keep us strong and healthy.

## Assessment (parent/teacher)

Student can say that exercise means moving the body on purpose to stay healthy. Student can name at least three types of movement such as walking, running, jumping, dancing, or stretching. Student can describe how exercise helps the heart, muscles, and bones. Student can choose more active options in simple movement stories and explain why. Student uses words like exercise, move, heart, strong, and energy correctly in short sentences.

## Exit ticket (student)

😀 I can explain what exercise is and name ways to move my body. 🙂 I know some ways to exercise but want more practice moving every day. 😅 Exercise and movement are still a bit tricky to explain.

#### Next time I will practise…

Playing an active game or sport Doing some simple stretches Choosing moving instead of sitting for a long time
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