You Will Need
Provided Resources
- 6 stages hats
- Suggested stage ages
- Chimpanzee lifecycle
- Sample timeline diagrams/flow charts
Additional Resources
- Paper, scissors and tape
Human timeline
Science Year 5
This unit is part of
Year 5 Science Life Explorers
Objectives
Reflect back on your work in this block and pinpoint the key milestones in a human life and how they impact on the body? Have a go at creating a graphic for your book on human growth.
Science Objectives
i) Describe the changes as humans develop to old age.
Working Scientifically
- Record data using scientific diagrams and labels.
- Identify scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or argument.
Other Curriculum Areas
Computing
- Select, use and combine a variety of software (including internet services) on a range of digital devices to design and create a range of programs, systems and content that accomplish given goals, including collecting, analysing, evaluating and presenting data and information.
Extended Writing Opportunities
Non-fiction various: Write sections for their non-fiction book on the human lifecycle e.g. ‘things to expect in old age’, ‘key physical and emotional changes during puberty’ etc.
Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Identify, order and explain the 6 key stages in a human life.
- Create a human timeline diagram.
Activities
- Create a visual timeline of key events in a human life.
- Use a graphics program to create a visual representation of human growth.
- Publish their non-fiction book on the human lifecycle.
Investigation - analysing secondary sources/pattern seeking
Create a human timeline.
Create a human growth quiz.
Vocabulary
Lifecycle, timeline, foetus, baby, child, adolescent, adult, old age