YEAR 9 BIOLOGy

9A INHERITANCE AND SELECTION

9CD PLANTS FOR FOOD AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS

9B FIT AND HEALTHY

In this unit you will learn about what fitness is and measure your own fitness. You will then learn about unhealthy habits and how/why they negatively affect your body.

Here are the learning objectives for this topic

I can

• Make judgments about how fit a person is 
  
• Describe how to keep your heart healthy
  
• Describe some problems caused by obesity
  
• Describe the negative effects of smoking, drugs and alcohol on our bodies
  
• Describe how and why drugs can affect a developing foetus
  

I understand

• How the respiratory system works
  
• How the circulatory system works 
  
• What fitness is and the four aspects of fitness
  
• What a heart attack is
  
• What obesity is
  
• Reasons behind why people choose to smoke or take drugs
  
• The difference between recreational and medicinal drugs
  

USEFUl 9B websites

Try the bitesize revision section.

Learn about health with this Bitesize activity.

Test your knowledgy withe the Bitesize quiz.

Or try Doc Brown´s 9B Quiz.

Have a look at Talk to Frank a confidential British website with information about drugs.

This website from The British Health Service (NHS) has lots of information about smoking.

This is a list from CDC of all of the effects of smoking.

a little smoking song

funny canadian social smoking tv advert