Keeping healthy
Why this, why now
This unit examines how diet, exercise, drugs, and lifestyle impact body function. It focuses on planning scientific enquiries, controlling variables, taking precise measurements, and recording complex data. Emphasis is on presenting findings, drawing conclusions, and evaluating scientific evidence.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Ardaydu waa inay yaqaanaan aasaaska maadada.
- Ardaydu waa inay awoodaan inay raacaan tilmaamo fudud.
Unit 3 / 8
Keeping healthy
This unit examines how diet, exercise, drugs, and lifestyle impact body function. It focuses on planning scientific enquiries, controlling variables, taking precise measurements, and recording complex data. Emphasis is on presenting findings, drawing conclusions, and evaluating scientific evidence.
12 lessons- Healthy heart rate
- The impact of alcohol
- Evidence about healthy lifestyle: presentation (non-statutory)
- The impact of a balanced diet
- The impact of smoking
- Heart recovery time after exercise
- Healthy and sustainable proteins (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability)
- Evidence about healthy lifestyle: do and review (non-statutory)
- Legal and illegal drugs
- Monitoring and improving lifestyle choices (Climate Change & Sustainability)
- Healthy hearts
- Mushrooms and mycoprotein (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability)