You have been approached to create an exhibition about the human species. Can you research and collate information on growth, development, puberty and old age, and present it in a sensitive and logical way that is suited to your audience? Create sculptures and sketches that not only reflect the complexity of the human body but also act as an accurate and informative presentation of the complex systems that help make us human. You have 6 weeks until the exhibition open.
Are you ready for the first part of your exhibition content? Explore gestation periods, foetal development and growth patterns, and create a visual display of your findings.
Science Objectives
i) Describe the changes as humans develop to old age
Working Scientifically
Other Curriculum Areas
Computing: Use software to create content that accomplishes given goals, including analysing, and presenting data and information
Provided Resources
Additional Resources
Weblinks
Human reproduction from www.bbc.co.uk
Week by week foetal development images from www.bbc.co.uk
How the human body grows from www.bbc.co.uk
Teaching
Activities
Investigation
Development and growth: from foetus to child. Explore gestation periods, foetal development and growth patterns, and create a visual display of your findings for an exhibition. ( Exploring, Analysing secondary sources, Pattern seeking)
Year 5 – Create fact file tables based on growth in children
Year 6 – Complete research on growth in children and create fact file tables
Years 5&6 - Create a labelled diagram showing the key stages of human foetal development
Years 5&6 - Look for patterns, correlations and possible causal relationships in gestation data
Years 5&6 - Draw online graphs to present gestation data
Vocabulary
Causal relationships, support/refute, gestation, life cycle, sperm, egg, foetus, development, child
Changes during puberty can be a sensitive issue – you need to understand the facts fully and recognise the physical as well as emotional impact. Create a Q&A section for your exhibition that covers all the issues raised by puberty as well as a Venn diagram showing key changes in boys and girls.
Science Objectives
i) Describe the changes as humans develop to old age
Working Scientifically
Other Curriculum Areas
Computing: Use software to create content that accomplishes given goals, including analysing, and presenting data and information
Provided Resources
Additional Resources
Weblinks
Stages of puberty from www.nhs.uk
BBC Puberty videos - use as appropriate from www.bbc.co.uk
Adolescence from www.dkfindout.com
Teaching
Activities
Investigation
Growth and Changes: adolescence & puberty. Explore the physical and emotional changes during puberty. Create a Q&A section for your exhibition that covers all the issues raised by puberty as well as a Venn diagram showing key changes in boys and girls. (Exploring, Analysing secondary sources, Pattern seeking)
Years 5&6 - Create a Venn diagram that shows the key physical & emotional changes during male and female puberty
Years 5&6 - Create a Q&A exhibition section and glossary for puberty
Vocabulary
Adolescence, adolescent, puberty, teenager, reproduction (see also vocab list in resources)
What happens to our bodies as we get old? Research and create a photographic section for your exhibition, and create a ‘humans timeline’ showing the key milestones in a human life and how they impact on the body.
Science Objectives
i) Describe the changes as humans develop to old age
Working Scientifically
Provided Resources
Additional Resources
Weblinks
Brown sisters aging from www.youtube.com
Four sisters aging over 40 years from www.huffingtonpost.com
The Queen at 90 from www.theguardian.com
Teaching
Activities
Investigation
Growth and Change: adults, old age and timelines. Research and explore what happens to our bodies as we get old. Create a photographic section for your exhibition, and create a ‘humans timeline’ showing the key milestones in a human life and how they impact on the body
Year 5 - Create a labelled photography display showing the physical & mental changes of an aging human
Year 6 - Compose a poem that explores the physical and mental changes to the human body as it ages
Years 5&6 - Create a visual timeline of key events in a human life
Vocabulary
Aging, old age, elderly, adult, causal relationship, growth, change, death, life cycle, timeline
Discover the true impact (both visible and hidden) of diet, exercise, lifestyle, drugs and alcohol on the human body. Explore the truths and myths and create your own TV public service ‘advert’ that explores this impact and how to keep our bodies healthy.
Science Objectives
i) Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function
Working Scientifically
Provided Resources
Additional Resources
Weblinks
Game about Heart Disease from www.centreofthecell.org
Teaching
Activities
Investigation
A Healthy Body. Discover the true impact (both visible and hidden) of diet, exercise, lifestyle, drugs and alcohol on the human body. Explore the truths and myths and create your own TV public service ‘advert’ that explores this impact and how to keep our bodies healthy. (Analysing secondary sources, Pattern seeking)
Years 5&6 - Identify the impact of exercise and lifestyle choices, a heathy or unhealthy diet and drugs on the human body
Years 5&6 - Create a poster promoting healthy bodies with a focus on diet, exercise & lifestyle, or drugs & alcohol
Vocabulary
Diet, exercise, lifestyle, health, drugs, addiction, disease, medicine, alcohol, cigarettes, stimulant, depressant, analgesic, hallucinogen
Explore the composition of blood and the role it has to play in the human body. Explore the structure and function of the human heart before creating your own heart sculptures. Can you feel the rhythm of your heart beat? Discover how and why it changes across activity and compare human heartbeats with those of other animals.
Science Objectives
i) Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood
Working Scientifically
Provided Resources
Additional Resources
Weblinks
What’s in your blood? from www.bbc.co.uk
How does a healthy heart work? from www.bhf.org.uk
The heart and how it works from www.bbc.co.uk
Animation and 3D echocardiogram of heartbeat from https://en.wikipedia.org
Heartbeat from www.smm.org
Teaching
Activities
Investigation
Blood & the Heart. Explore the composition of blood and the role it has to play in the human body. Explore the structure and function of the human heart before creating your own heart sculptures. Discover how and why the rhythm of a heartbeat changes across activity and compare human heartbeats with those of other animals. (Exploring, Fair testing, Observing over time, Analysing secondary sources, Pattern seeking)
Years 5&6 - Identify, describe and note the functions of the main components of blood
Years 5&6 - Create an anatomically correct sculpture of the heart from clay
Years 5&6 - Investigate & recreate heart rates for varying levels of exertion
Vocabulary
Blood, blood vessels, arteries, veins, capillaries, heart, pump, oxygen, carbon dioxide, circulation
Have you even wondered what your blood gets up to inside your body? Here is your chance to join your platelets on their journey around your body. Share your discoveries in the form of a dramatic re-enactment. Explore how nutrients and water are transported throughout your body in your blood and the processes used to pass in and out of your blood through capillary walls.
Science Objectives
i) Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood
ii) Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans
Working Scientifically
Provided Resources
Additional Resources
Weblinks
Differences between diffusion and osmosis from www.majordifferences.com
Blood Circulation from www.youtube.com
GCSE BBC Science Bitesize - Blood Circulation (to 3mins 18) from www.youtube.com
Teaching
Activities
Investigation
Transport Systems. Have you even wondered what your blood gets up to inside your body? Here is your chance to join your platelets on their journey around your body. Share your discoveries in the form of a dramatic re-enactment. Explore how nutrients and water are transported throughout your body in your blood and the processes used to pass in and out of your blood through capillary walls. (Problem solving, Exploring, Fair testing, Observing over time, Analysing secondary sources, Pattern seeking)
Years 5&6 - Dramatise the circulatory system explaining how it works and the role blood has within this
Years 5&6 - Investigate diffusion and osmosis
Years 5&6 - Explain how nutrients and water are transported through the body
Vocabulary
Circulatory system, heart, blood, blood vessels, oxygen, carbon dioxide, nutrients, water, pump
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