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Look at how we've changed!

Science Year 1
This unit is part of Year 1 Science Ourselves

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Objectives

Look at photographs of everyone as babies. We all look very different! Consider the questions: How do we change as we get older? Do we only get older on our birthdays? Observe changes over time by comparing baby photos with current ones.

Science Objectives
i) Identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which parts of the body is associated with which sense.

Working Scientifically

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

You Will Need

Provided Resources

  • Looking closely at photographs resource

Additional Resources

  • Clipboards
  • Paper with numbers down the side
  • Baby photos displayed on the IWB or stuck in the classroom
  • Pop-up tent tunnel or similar structure
  • Photo pairs (baby and older picture) of school staff members
  • Baby clothes and shoes
  • Laminated photo pairs for the memory game
  • ‘Big’ by Tom Hopgood

Weblinks
BBC Bitesize 35 second clip on growing older from www.bbc.co.uk
BBC Bitesize Growing and changing from www.bbc.co.uk

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Share and discuss their baby photos with each other.
  • Identify common features and compare similarities and differences and changes over time in baby and recent photographs.
  • Discuss the question: How do we change over time?
  • Consolidate their understanding of the passing of time through the playing of a game.
  • Be aware of the meaning of key scientific words.

Activities

  1. Understand that people change as they get older but often retain recognisable features.
  2. Recognise some of the ways people change over time, using key scientific words to discuss these.
  3. Observe photographs closely, identify changes and use these to suggest answers to questions.

Investigation - exploring
Share baby photos together as a class. Observe changes over time between the baby photos and current ones.

Vocabulary
Compare, describe, similar, different, baby, adult, changes, growing

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