You Will Need
Provided Resources
- Images of mosquitoes
- Mosquito/malaria info pack
Additional Resources
- Sugar paper
- Pens & labels
- Smart art/graphics software
Weblinks
Mosquito life cycle from www.youtube.com
Use your knowledge from across the year to embrace a series of medical challenges from the Wellfordbury Hospital and see if you can help improve people’s lives and the work of our health service. Explore possible approaches to help people recovering from or living with medical conditions, and investigate how understanding insect life cycles can help control certain diseases. Investigate and select the right materials for certain medical equipment as well as designing electrical and lighting systems to help with medical procedures. Test out your computing skills along the way and create your own blog to record your experiences.
Explore how understanding the life cycle of insects can help science treat, cure and even eradicate diseases. Take a look at the drugs used to treat malaria and create a fabulous travel clinic poster about malaria and mosquitos.
Science Objectives
i) Describe the differences in the life cycles of insects
ii) Describe the life process of reproduction in insects
iii) Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function
Working Scientifically
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
Provided Resources
Additional Resources
Weblinks
Mosquito life cycle from www.youtube.com
Teaching
Activities
Investigation
Mosquitos and Medicine. Explore how understanding the life cycle of insects can help science treat, cure and even eradicate diseases. Take a look at the drugs used to treat malaria and create a fabulous travel clinic poster about malaria and mosquitos. (Observing over time, Analysing secondary sources, Pattern seeking)
Years 5&6 - Research and draw the life cycle of a mosquito
Years 5&6 - Link scientific knowledge of insect life cycles to factors that would interrupt it and when
Years 5&6 - Note that medicines often have unpleasant side effects on the body, but are worth the overall impact of the drug
Vocabulary
Life cycle, metamorphosis (complete/incomplete), egg, instar, larvae, pupae, disease, medicine, drug, environmental factors, side effects
Wellfordbury Hospital has sent in a series of requests for materials recommendations. Set up a series of tests to see which materials would be best for the job and explore the medical applications of some very modern materials.
Science Objectives
i) Compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets
ii) Give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic
Working Scientifically
Other Curriculum Areas
Computing: Select, use and combine a variety of software on a range of digital devices to design and create content that accomplishes given goals, including presenting data and information
Provided Resources
Additional Resources
Teaching
Activities
Investigation
Medical Materials. Wellfordbury Hospital has sent in a series of requests for materials recommendations. Set up a series of tests to see which materials would be best for the job and explore the medical applications of some very modern materials. (Problem solving, Exploring, Fair testing)
Years 5&6 - Investigate a range of materials for specific properties
Years 5&6 - Recommend the best materials for a given use, identifying possible alternative materials
Vocabulary
Property, prediction, accuracy, comparative, fair test, enquiry
The Wellfordbury Hospital is keen to offer information leaflets for ‘life’ as a human. Can you take on the role of editor-in-chief and create an informative and guiding leaflet or webpage/site that will help people understand how they grow and change as well as how to stay healthy?
Science Objectives
i) Describe the changes as humans develop to old age
ii) Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function
Working Scientifically
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
Provided Resources
Additional Resources
Teaching
Activities
Investigation
Welcome to the World! The Wellfordbury Hospital is keen to offer information leaflets for ‘life’ as a human. Can you take on the role of editor-in-chief and create an informative and guiding leaflet or webpage/site that will help people understand how they grow and change as well as how to stay healthy? (Analysing secondary sources, Pattern seeking)
Years 5&6 - Recap and research the human lifecycle
Years 5&6 - Recap and research the impact of drugs, alcohol, lifecycle, diet and exercise on health
Years 5&6 - Create an informative leaflet (Y5) or webpage/site (Y6) outlining the human lifecycle and advising people on how to live a healthy life
Vocabulary
Causal relationships, support/refute, life cycle, development, child, adolescence, puberty, reproduction, elderly, adult, growth, change, timeline, diet, exercise, lifestyle, health, drugs, addiction, disease
Have a go at creating a podcast for patients of GP surgeries, explaining how the circulatory system works and how to ensure it stays healthy and works like a well-oiled machine.
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) Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function
iii) Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans
Working Scientifically
Other Curriculum Areas
Computing
Provided Resources
Additional Resources
Weblinks
KS3 circulatory system podcast from http://scienceatschool.co.uk
Teaching
Activities
Investigation
The Well-oiled Human Machine. Have a go at creating a podcast for patients of GP surgeries, explaining how the circulatory system works and how to ensure it stays healthy and works like a well-oiled machine. (Analysing secondary sources)
Years 5&6 - Describe the human circulatory system in the form of a podcast
Years 5&6 - Suggest ways to maintain a healthy circulatory system
Vocabulary
Blood, blood vessels, arteries, veins, capillaries, heart, pump, oxygen, carbon dioxide, circulation, circulatory system, nutrients, water, pump, drugs, diet, lifestyle, exercise
Explore the level of illumination for a range of lights used in hospitals and for medical procedures. Identify why they are fit for purpose by suggesting the relationship between the light sources and vision. Can you use your knowledge of shadows to create storage systems for surgical equipment?
Science Objectives
i) Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye
ii) Explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes
iii) Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them
Working Scientifically
Provided Resources
Additional Resources
Teaching
Activities
Investigation
Illumination Station. Explore the level of illumination for a range of lights used in hospitals and for medical procedures. Identify why they are fit for purpose by suggesting the relationship between the light sources and vision. Use your knowledge of shadows to create storage systems for surgical equipment. (Problem solving, Exploring, Fair testing, Pattern seeking)
Years 5&6 - Draw a simple ray diagram
Years 5&6 - Suggest a process for creating a surgical equipment storage system, using shadows
Vocabulary
Shadow, light source, beam, ray diagram, dilation
Can you match the circuit diagrams to a range of electrical medical equipment? Explore the key features of the circuits and why they are important, then design your own piece of medical equipment or machinery.
Science Objectives
i) Associate brightness of a lamp/volume of a buzzer with the number & voltage of cells used in the circuit
ii) Compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on/off position of switches
iii) Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram
Working Scientifically
Provided Resources
Additional Resources
Weblinks
Baby monitoring watch for pregnant women from http://gizmodo.com
Bionic hand connected to and controlled by the brain from www.wired.co.uk
Teaching
Activities
Investigation
Medical Circuits. Match circuit diagrams to a range of electrical medical equipment. Explore the key features of the circuits and why they are important, then design your own piece of medical equipment or machinery. (Problem solving, Analysing secondary sources)
Years 5&6 - Design and drawing an accurate circuit diagram
Years 5&6 - Make an electrical circuit from a circuit diagram
Vocabulary
Electricity, electrical circuit, complete circuit, circuit symbol, components, cell, battery, positive/negative, wire, crocodile clip, bulb, bright/dim, switch, buzzer, volume, motor, voltage, current, conductor, insulator
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