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Science topics ages 5 - 6
Ourselves
Curriculum relevance
| Online lesson plan
Offline lesson
plan | Worksheet | Activity |
Quiz
Offline lesson plan
Objectives
Identify parts of the body
Sort humans from other animals and identify differences
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National Curriculum
England: Key Stage 1, Science, Sc1 2h, 2j; Sc2 2a, 4a, 4b
Wales: Key Stage 1, Life processes and living things, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Northern Ireland: Key Stage 1, Living things, Ourselves a, c
Scotland: 5-14 Guidelines, Science, The processes of life, Level A
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Resources required
Magazines, pictures, computer print outs of people and animals
Scissors, glue, sugar paper
Labels: head, arms, legs, feet, hands, ears, tail, skin, fur.
Large labels (as above), blue tack.
Copies of the Ourselves worksheet printed from the Science Clips website
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Teaching activities
Introduction
Tell the children you want them to be able to name the main parts of the body and to discuss the features of a range of animals. Ask the children to point to various parts of their bodies, e.g. leg, arm, head. In talk partners, children think of one thing that is different between humans and other animals and report back to the class. Read through the labels. Ask one child to stand in front of the class and other children stick appropriate large labels onto his/her legs, arms etc.
Activities
Split the class into three ability groups. Each group will need to have a selection of pictures, scissors, glue and two large pieces of sugar paper. The higher ability group will also need pencils to write their labels with; the middle group will need printed labels; the lower ability group will have an adult scribe.
Ask the children to find and cut out pictures of humans and other animals. Explain they need to work as a group and to stick the pictures of humans on to one sheet of sugar paper and the other animals on to the second sheet.
The higher ability group should write labels on their pictures following suggestions made in the introduction and verbal prompts from the teacher as s/he walks around. The middle ability group should cut and stick the printed labels that you have provided them with. The lower ability group can work with an adult as scribe and prompter or, if this is not practical, they can leave their work unlabeled and report back verbally in the plenary.
Plenary
Ask the lower ability group to show their collages and to label them verbally. Prompt with questions pointing to simple body parts. What is this? Go on to draw out the differences between humans and other animals by asking questions aimed at the middle and higher ability groups for example. This animal has fur, what do we have? How many legs/feet have these animals got? Do we have tails? How does this animal move?
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Extension
You may want to use more detailed labels for extension activities, or ask the children to sort their pictures by different characteristics for example skin/fur or the number of legs. The online games can also be used as extension activities.
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Suggested homework
Hand out copies of the Ourselves worksheet. Or ask children to go home and find out the names of other parts of the body for example elbow, ankle etc. Also ask them to look at family pets and to note the differences between them for example goldfish, cats and dogs.
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