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Foetal development detectives

Science Year 5
This unit is part of Year 5 Science Life Explorers

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Objectives

You now know a baby’s gestation period, but what happens while it is a foetus? Explore the key stages of foetal development and present your research in the form of annotated diagrams.

Science Objectives
i) Describe the changes as humans develop to old age.

Working Scientifically

  1. Record data using scientific diagrams and labels.
  2. 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.

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Learn about foetal development in humans.
  • Represent foetal development information and data as a labelled scientific diagram and graph.

Activities

  1. Explore the key stages of human foetal development.
  2. Create a scientific diagram for the key stages of foetal development and an accompanying growth graph.
  3. Describe the process of foetal development within a scientific diagram.

Investigation - analysing secondary sources
Create gestation period graphs for a range of animals.

Vocabulary
Scientific diagram, support/refute, gestation, life cycle, foetus, development, nutrition, uterus

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