Learning objectives
Knowledge
- To summarise the key structures and purpose of the circulatory system.
Success criteria
Knowledge
- I can describe the circulatory system as a
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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
Should use the Activity: Postcard from the circulatory system: support version that provides keyword prompts and sentences to complete when describing the circulatory system; could watch the Pupil video: The heart and circulatory system before the lesson as a pre-teaching tool.
Pupils working at greater depth
Should make comparisons between the human and fish circulatory systems using the Resource: Comparing circulatory systems by identifying similarities and differences (e.g. both have a heart and blood flowing in blood vessels but fish use gills instead of lungs to get oxygen into the body and have a single loop in their circulatory system instead of the double loop found in humans).
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Assessing progress and understanding
Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: describing the circulatory system as the heart
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Knowledge outcomes
- I can describe the circulatory system as a group of organs, including the heart and blood vessels, that transport blood around the body.
- I can recall that the heart is a muscular pump that pushes the blood to the lungs and the body in two separate loops, making it a double-circulatory system.
- I can describe the pathway of blood around the human circulatory system through blood vessels, including moving from the heart to the lungs to pick up oxygen and remove carbon dioxide and then returning to the heart to be passed onto the body to drop off oxygen and pick up waste carbon dioxide.
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Vocabulary definitions
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blood vessels
The tubes that blood flows in around the body.
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carbon dioxide
A waste gas produced by the body.
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In this unit
Maintained by: Kapow Primary team
Last update: 21st March, 2024
