Y5/6 (B): Animals, including humans: 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
Y5/6 (B): Living things: Life cycles and reproduction
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Y5/6 (B): Lesson 1: Growing old
Knowledge
- To describe how humans change from babies through to old age.
Working scientifically
- To use a line graph to identify patterns in height and predict values.
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 2: Puberty
Knowledge
- To identify changes in males and females as a result of puberty.
Y5/6 (B): Lesson 3: Comparing human gestation
Knowledge
- To explore the gestation periods of humans and other animals.
Working scientifically
- To plot data on a scatter graph.
Key skills
Key knowledge
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Unit resources

Knowledge organiser – Science Y5/6 (B): Animals, including humans: Human timeline (with named genitalia)
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the mixed-age unit ‘Human timeline’.

Knowledge organiser – Science Y5/6 (B): Animals, including humans: Human timeline (without named genitalia)
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the mixed-age unit ‘Human timeline’.

Vocabulary display – Science Y5/6 (B): Animals, including humans: Human timeline
A display version of the vocabulary for the mixed-age unit ‘Human timeline’.
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