Sistema Circulatório: Circulação pulmonar e circulação sistêmica (esquema didático)

Here, you can see a video about circulatory system. Pay attention to the portuguese teacher:

Healthy swimming

Swimming and other water-related activities are excellent ways to get the physical 

activity and health benefits needed for a healthy life.

Americans swim hundreds of millions of times in pools, oceans, lakes, rivers, and hot 

tubs/spas each year and most people have a safe and healthy time enjoying the water. 

However, it is important to be aware of ways to prevent recreational water illnesses 

(RWIs), sunburn, and drowning that can occur. CDC's Healthy Swimming Program and 

website, launched in 2001, provides information for the public, public health and medical 

professionals, and aquatics staff so everyone can maximize the health benefits of 

swimming while minimizing the risk of illness and injury.

Exercise and Physical Fitness

Regular physical activity is one of the most important things you can do for your health. It can help

• Control your weight
• Lower your risk of heart disease
• Lower your risk for type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome
• Lower your risk of some cancers
• Strengthen your bones and muscles
• Improve your mental health and mood
• Improve your ability to do daily activities and prevent falls, if you're an older adult
• Increase your chances of living longer

Fitting regular exercise into your daily schedule may seem difficult at first. But even ten minutes at a time is fine. The key is to find the right exercise for you. It should be fun and should match your abilities.

Special Physical Education

Speaking of diversity in school involves finding that children are grouped in it have the same diversity found in society. The pupils are different between them and this should be the starting point for all educational activities. It is perfectly demonstrable that not all students  learning as well, prior learning, level of maturity, personal and family circumstances etc. are aspects that can make a difference between our students in learning. 

Respecting differences and not make them inequality should be the fundamental purpose of the school as well as working for these inequalities are not an obstacle to the accomplishment of its educational function. It is important to note that the respect for differences, despite the existence of inequalities, is a source of enrichment. 

The school should be inclusive and should be aimed at providing common training for all students that promotes equal opportunities. This appropriate teaching strategies and interventions to address the diversity of students apply. 

Seaman and De Paw, write: "The goal of any program of general physical education or adapted for children to reach their full potential in the motor domain through the experiences of Physical Education". 

Continuous assessment is to identify when it is appropriate for a student or group of students, a unique answer tailored to their possibilities in a given moment of the learning process. Modifications to serve these students can affect only the methodological approaches and learning activities for most proposals, or may involve changes in the objectives, content and evaluation criteria. 

The need to adapt the school curriculum and the degree of adaptation must be grounded in the identification of the student's competence in relation to the contents worked on in class, and also in determining the amount of help you need to get the objectives of the program. 

The decision to design an individualized work plan (ITP) should be taken by the teachers involved with the advice of those responsible for guidance if deemed necessary and must be agreed by the management team. And in those cases that adaptations involving modification materials or curriculum areas, or adoption of organizational forms very different from those required for other students, the approval of the Inspection and parental consent is required. 

As measures of support or educational support student can give the student  specific educational services such as special education teachers, therapists, educators, speech therapists, equipment consulting ... 

The Physical Education in Spain

The area also has PE targets to be achieved, necessarily, the end stage of primary education. They relate to the perceptual areas, motor, communicative, affective, social, agonistic, health and body beauty and the environment. They are:

The educational process plays a key role in the development of individuals and societies. Through this process, provide our students  training to enable the development of self-identity and the development of cognitive-linguistic, affective, psychomotor and interpersonal adaptation and social integration that allow the person to enter the world around him. The education system in turn facilitates the construction of a conception of reality imposed by knowledge and ethical and moral assessment of it, through the values of freedom, tolerance and solidarity.

The integral formation of the person develops through the acquisition of knowledge and experience that enables school education through curricular areas. In primary education, the education authorities have undestood that the area of Physical Education is an important and fundamental part in the formation of pupils; being on the other hand, the few that mix an adequate command of the body with the mind work.

The knowledge, skills, and body-related attitudes and motor activity help better training and better quality of life.

With the area of strengthening the components of the motor is intended, that lead to body experienced knowledge; the discovery of playful, expressive and communicative possibilities; and acceptance of self, feeling good with your body, improve it and use it effectively.

According to these educational intentions we will take some functions of movement that help us achieve the objectives. Official Curriculum in the following shows:

 Anatomical-functional Function: objectives encompass physical abilities.

 Agonistic function: own skill is demonstrated, and difficulties are overcome.

 Hedonistic and cathartic function -. Tensions are released, the psychic balance is restored and leisure activities are performed.

 Role of environmental constraints and sedentary compensación.-are nullified.

 Communicative and relational function -. We relate to other people, not only in the game and the sport, but in general all kinds of physical activities.

 Knowledge Function -. Both of itself and its environment.

 Expressive aesthetics and function -. Through body language and movement.

 Hygienic function -. Relating to the preservation and improvement of health and fitness, and prevention of diseases and dysfunctions.

1. Know and appreciate their body and physical activity as a means of exploration and enjoyment of motor possibilities, relationships with others and as a resource to organize free time.

2. Adopt hygiene, feeding, and exercise postures, showing a responsible attitude towards their own bodies and respect for others, relating these habits with health effects.

3. Effort Regular and dose, reaching a level of self according to their abilities and the nature of the task performed, using as a fundamental criterion of the evaluation effort and not the result.

4. Solve problems that require mastery of basic motor patterns adapting to perceptual stimuli and selecting movements, prior assessment of their chances.

5. Utilize your skills and basic motor skills and their knowledge of the structure and functioning of the body for physical activity and movement to adapt to the circumstances and conditions of each situation.

6. Participate in games and activities establishing balanced and constructive relationships with others, avoiding discrimination on personal, social and sexual characteristics and aggressive behaviors and attitudes of rivalry in competitive activities.

7. Know and value the diversity of physical and sporting activities and the environments in which they operate, participate in its conservation and enhancement.

8. Use the expressive resources of body and movement to communicate feelings, ideas and moods and understand messages expressed in this way.