Muscle strength: plan (non-statutory) | Science | Quizalize & Oak National Academy

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Do humans have muscles?
- No, humans do not have muscles but some other animals do.
- Yes, they are on the outside of our bodies.
- Yes they are on the inside of our bodies. ✓
Where bones meet, around our ______ we have pairs of muscles which pull in different directions to help us move.
- 'joints' ✓
Which of these statements describes the muscles in your body?
- Muscles are all the same shape.
- Muscles are all the same size.
- Muscles can be different shapes. ✓
- Muscles can be different sizes. ✓
Match the muscles with an activity they can be used for.
- walking
  
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  leg and feet muscles ✓
- waving goodbye
  
  ⇔
  
  hand and arm muscles ✓
- sucking a sweet
  
  ⇔
  
  face and neck muscles ✓
Match the equipment to its unit of measure.
- ruler
  
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  centimetres ✓
- stopwatch
  
  ⇔
  
  seconds ✓
- measuring jug
  
  ⇔
  
  millilitres ✓
- weighing scales
  
  ⇔
  
  kilograms ✓
A scientist can carry out an ______ to find out an answer to their question.
- 'investigation ' ✓

To measure how strong someone is, we could think of ways to measure their ______ strength.
- 'muscle' ✓
Put these people in order from the strongest muscle strength to the weakest muscle strength.
- 1
  
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  I can lift up to 200 kg.
- 2
  
  ⇔
  
  I can lift up to 160 kg.
- 3
  
  ⇔
  
  I can lift up to 124 kg.
- 4
  
  ⇔
  
  I can lift up to 92 kg.
If you were measuring muscle strength by how far a person can throw a heavy ball, which unit of measurement would you use to measure the distance the ball was thrown?
- millilitres
- centimetres ✓
- kilograms
- seconds
Which of the following ways would not measure muscle strength?
- Measuring how much mass you can lift.
- Measuring the length of your arm that you pick the weight up with. ✓
- Measuring the height of a heavy object. ✓
- Measuring who can hold the mass the longest.
Which of these questions could you ask to carry out an investigation about muscle strength?
- How long can I hold a heavy weight? ✓
- What is the heavy weight made out of?
- How far can I push a heavy weight with my feet? ✓
- Where does the heavy weight come from?
When measuring muscle strength we can use the type of enquiry called ______ seeking.
- 'pattern ' ✓

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Muscle strength is often different in different people
Muscle strength can be measured in different ways
Scientists plan how to carry out the right type of investigation to find answers to their questions

Students may think if you have big muscles you are strong, if you have small muscles you are weak.

Show images to illustrate a runner may be very lean and a weightlifter may have huge muscles, but both are strong, just in different ways.

Muscles - Muscles are a tissue which pulls part of our skeleton so we can move.
Strength - The strength of something is shown by how well it can withstand a force or pressure.
Measure - To measure is to use equipment to find numbers to describe a feature of something such as its length, weight, size or time.
Questions - A question is a sentence or phrase used to find out information.