Primary Theme: The body
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 5: Nutrient groups
Exploring the seven nutrients essential for life, including the foods that contain them and their roles in the body. This lesson is part of the mixed-age scheme.
Lesson 5: Investigating exercise and heart rate
Planning and conducting an enquiry to investigate the relationship between exercise and heart rate.
Lesson 5: Nutrient groups
Exploring the seven nutrients essential for life, including the foods that contain them and their roles in the body.
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 6: Poo clues
Exploring how biologists use faeces to find out about animals’ diets and constructing results tables to record observations. This lesson is part of the mixed-age scheme.
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 6: Heart rate and fitness
Recording heart rate over time as a line graph to better understand the impact of fitness on heart rate. This lesson is part of the mixed-age scheme.
Lesson 6: Balanced diets
Exploring Science in action to see how scientific research has contributed to modern advice. This lesson is part of the mixed-age scheme.
Animals: Human timeline
Exploring how humans change from a baby through to old age, including puberty, measurements of growth and gestation periods.
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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Order the stages in growth and development from birth to old age.
- Describe physical and developmental changes from a baby through to old age.
- Describe changes that occur in males and females during puberty.
- Suggest ways to manage the changes that occur during puberty.
- Recall what is meant by a gestation period.
- Describe how gestation varies across animals and compare this to humans.
When working scientifically, pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Use data to describe growth from baby to adult.
- Identify where on the graph the rate of growth changes.
- Use a line graph to make predictions about height.
- Choose a suitable title and axes labels for the scatter graph and plot data on the scatter graph.
Please note that Kapow Primary Science lessons are designed to be 1 hour and 30 minutes long to reflect the requirements of a core subject.
This unit only has three lessons.
Suggested prior learning
Living things: Life cycles and reproduction
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Growing old
Lesson 2: Puberty
Lesson 3: Comparing human gestation
Key skills
- Representing data by using line graphs and scatter graphs.
- Plotting points with greater accuracy.
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Key knowledge
- How to describe the human life cycle, including the stages of growth and development (baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult, elderly).
- How to describe changes that occur during puberty (in boys and girls).
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Key vocabulary
anomaly
evidence
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Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
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Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
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Metre ruler
×1 - Sticky notes ×30
The equipment below is optional
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A childhood photo of a well-known adult in the school
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Photos of the class as babies or younger children
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Graph paper
×30 - Devices with internet access ×15
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Knowledge organiser – Science Y5: Animals, including humans: Human timeline (with named genitalia)
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit ‘Human timeline’.
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Knowledge organiser – Science Y5: Animals, including humans: Human timeline (without named genitalia)
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit ‘Human timeline’.
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Vocabulary display – Science Y5: Animals, including humans: Human timeline
A display version of the vocabulary for the unit ‘Human timeline’.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
English: Spoken language.
Mathematics: Number – number and place value; Statistics.
RSE: Changing adolescent body.
Art.
British values: Rule of law; Democracy; Mutual respect.
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Living things: Evolution and inheritance
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