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Babies!

Science Year 2
This unit is part of Year 2 Science Healthy Animals

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Objectives

Invite visitors in who are pregnant or have very young children. Gather information by careful questioning. Make a timeline using photographs or cut out pictures of babies, young children, adults and elderly people.

Science Objectives
i) Notice that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults.

ii) Find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (water, food and air).

iii) Describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene.

Working Scientifically

  1. Ask simple questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways.
  2. Use their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.
  3. Gather and record data to help answer questions.

You Will Need

Provided Resources

  • Babies and Adults matching game resource
  • Question-aids resource

Additional Resources

  • Card
  • Glue
  • A role play corner with baby dolls and baby equipment for children to explore

Weblinks
BBC Bitesize: Babies and their offspring from www.bbc.co.uk

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Become familiar with animals and their babies through matching card activities and discussion.
  • Understand that humans are animals and that we produce offspring.
  • Plan questions for visitors thinking carefully about what information they want to gather and how to phrase the question accordingly.
  • Interact and observe the visitors, recording their answers to questions and gathering information.

Activities

  1. Understand that babies can be similar or different to the adults and that humans are animals that produce offspring.
  2. Appreciate the importance of well-planned questions and that questions need to be useful for providing the right information.
  3. Interact well with visitors and ask questions politely and appropriately.

Investigation - exploring
Plan questions for visitors thinking carefully about what information they want to gather and how to phrase the question accordingly.
Interact and observe the visitors, recording their answers to questions and gathering information.

Vocabulary
Questions, answers, gather, young, old, change and adults

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