Growth & change: Baby & child

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

Objectives

Are you ready to analyse your own growth data and demonstrate in graphs and charts how the human body develops and grows from birth to five? This section of your book will need some clear and well researched fact files.

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

Working Scientifically

  1. Record data using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs.
  2. Report and present findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal, relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations.
  3. Identify scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or argument.

Other Curriculum Areas
English

  • Plan writing by identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own.
  • Evaluate and edit by assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing.

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Recognise and explore key milestones in baby and child development.
  • Interpret and understand growth charts and plot personal data as a line graph.

Activities

  1. Complete online research and write fact-files based on growth data and research findings.
  2. Explore baby growth through statistics.
  3. Create growth graphs and charts based on their own growth records.

Investigation - analysing secondary sources/pattern seeking/observing over time
Research and create an infographic on baby growth.
Compare ‘red books’ and predict growth patterns.

Vocabulary
Baby, child, growth, line graph, comparison, development, centile, healthy, causal relationship