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Science topics ages 6 - 7
Health and growth
Curriculum relevance |
Online lesson plan
Offline lesson
plan | Worksheet | Activity |
Quiz
Online lesson plan
Objectives
Recognise that humans and other animals require food and water to stay
alive
Understand that taking exercise and eating the correct types and amounts of
food help humans to stay healthy
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National Curriculum
England: Key Stage 1, Science, Sc2, 2b, 2c
Wales: Key Stage 1, Life processes and living things, 2.4
Northern Ireland: Key Stage 1, Living things, Ourselves d
Scotland: 5-14 Guidelines, Science, The processes of life Level A, Conversion
and transfer of energy Level B
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Resources required
Online activity from Science Clips website: Health and growth
Copies of the Health and growth worksheet printed from the Science Clips
website
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Teaching activities
Introduction
Ask the children what they had for breakfast. List the items of food and drink
volunteered by pupils on the whiteboard. Why do we need to eat and drink? What
would happen to us if we didn’t? Apart from eating the right food, what
other things help us to keep healthy? List all appropriate suggestions on the
board.
Class work using an
interactive whiteboard
Select Health and growth from the Science Clips website. Explain they are
going to help this boy survive two days. Read aloud the choices. Ask a child to
use the cursor to select one of the choices to give the boy. Observe what
happens. What do they think will happen if the boy doesn’t receive it?
Withhold the choice and observe what does happen. Work through the quiz,
involving a different child for each question.
Group work using a computer
for each group
Select and explain the activity as above. Ask the children to choose to give
the boy some water. What happens if he doesn’t receive the water? When
have they felt thirsty? Work through a couple of the screens in this way. When
the children know what to do, allow them to complete the rest of the experiment
at their own speed.
Plenary
Return to the list of foods recorded at the beginning of lesson. Ask the
children to sort them into foods that are healthy and those that are not so
healthy. What other foods or drinks can be added? N.B. Be aware of and
sensitive to any cultural differences in pupils’ backgrounds and the diet
they may eat.
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Extension
Hand out copies of the Health and growth worksheet. Explain that they are
going to fill in the triangle with a variety of foods. Why is the shape a
triangle? Ask pupils for an example of a food to go in each section. Answer any
questions the children may have so they can complete the worksheet
independently.
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Suggested homework
Ask the children to keep a Healthy Living Diary for a week. Every day they
have to record some form of exercise taken and something healthy they have
eaten, e.g. an orange. Bring the diaries back to school, display, compare and
discuss the variety of foods eaten and exercise taken.
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