Learning objectives
- To identify factors that affect our health and how to reduce their negative impact.
- To evaluate sources of information.
Success criteria
- I can recall factors that improve someone’s health.
- I
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National curriculum
Science
Animals including humans
Pupils should be
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Cross-curricular links
English
Spoken language
Pupils should be taught
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
1: Lesson plan
An area for you to put useful resources from the previous lesson
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Adaptive teaching
Pupils needing extra support
Could use the Resource: Advice about health as a transcript while listening to the doctor’s audio in the Main event; could use the Resource: Knowledge organiser: Science – Circulation and health to consider questions to ask about factors affecting health.
Pupils working at greater depth
Should consider the likelihood of their advice being adopted by a patient to support evaluating its impact.
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Assessing progress and understanding
Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: recalling factors that improve someone’s health and
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Knowledge outcomes
- I can recall factors that improve someone’s health, such as eating a balanced diet with all seven nutrient groups, regular exercise and social interaction.
- I can recall factors that have a negative effect on someone’s health, such as eating too much salt and sugar, sitting for long periods of time and taking non-prescribed medicines.
- I can suggest improvements to someone’s health, such as increasing activity levels, finding new hobbies or increasing the amount of fruit and vegetables eaten.
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Vocabulary definitions
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balanced diet
A diet that includes all seven nutrients in the right amounts.
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diet
The kinds of foods a living things eats.
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In this unit
Maintained by: Kapow Primary team
Last update: 21st March, 2024
