Y5/6 (A): Animals, including humans: Circulation and health

Exploring the heart and circulatory system through models and enquiries and considering how lifestyle choices affect our health.

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Lessons

Y5/6 (A): Lesson 1: Factors affecting health

Y5/6 (A): Lesson 2: The heart and circulatory system

Y5/6 (A): Lesson 3: Blood

Y5/6 (A): Lesson 4: Heart rate

Y5/6 (A): Lesson 5: Investigating exercise and heart rate

Y5/6 (A): Lesson 6: Heart rate and fitness

Key skills

Planning

  • Suggesting which variables will
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Key knowledge

To know:

  • The main parts
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Key vocabulary

anomaly

blood

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Knowledge organiser – Science Y5/6 (A): Animals, including humans: Circulation and health

Aimed at pupils, three page which gives key facts and definitions from the mixed-age 'Circulation and health' unit.

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Vocabulary display – Science Y5/6 (A): Animals, including humans: Circulation and health

A display version of the key vocabulary from the mixed-age unit 'Circulation and health'.

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