Sports and the brain

• Humanities
• Special Education

Sports and the brain

LO:  I can identify how sports helps my brain.

How do we keep our bodies healthy?

There were four main ways of keeping healthy mentioned in the video.  What were they?

Did you get them all?

Keeping clean

Taking exercise

Eating healthy food

Getting enough sleep

How do we keep clean?

How often should you have a shower or a bath?

1. Every day
2. Once a week
3. Once a month
4. Once a year

Which of these is a healthy food?

1. chocolate
2. crisps
3. banana
4. cake

Which of these is NOT a healthy food?

1. Broccoli
2. Carrots
3. Rice
4. ice cream

How often should you eat fruit and vegetables?

1. Once a year
2. Every day
3. Once a month
4. Never

Which of these is a healthy lunch?

1. Pasta and salad
2. Jam doughnuts
3. Chocolate icecream
4. chocolate bars

Which of these can help you to sleep?

1. Playing on your phone
2. Playing on your xbox
3. Having a bath
4. Playing on a laptop

Taking exercise is very important to keep our bodies healthy.  It strengthens our hearts, lungs and muscles.

Taking exercise is also really good for our BRAIN and helps us to feel calm and well.

Exercise helps to make us feel happier by releasing special chemicals in our bodies, called endorphins.  

These help to reduce stress and anxiety as well as helping us to sleep better and to be able to think better.

Which of these can exercise help us to do?

1. Buy more games
2. Win more games
3. Watch more videos
4. Sleep better

Which of these does exercise make us have LESS of?

1. stress & anxiety
2. money
3. friends
4. pets

Name a sport or exercise that could help you to feel good.

Do you think that you now have some ideas about how sport and exercise helps your brain?

😒🙁😐🙂😃