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Human footprints

Topics Year 4/5

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Objectives

Science

  • Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago.
  • Identify how animals are adapted to their environment.

Maths

  • Convert between different units of metric measure.
  • Use all four operations to solve problems involving measure.
  • Solve problems involving the relative sizes of two quantities where missing values can be found by using integer multiplication and division facts.

Lesson Planning

Learn how someone’s footprints can tell us a great deal about their height, gait and speed.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To find out about fossilised human footprints.
  • To work out how tall people were from their footprints, and how fast they were moving.

Children will:

  • Explain what fossilised human footprints tell us.
  • Apply the footprint to height ratio to predict height.
  • Apply the measurement of gait and speed from footprint shape and spacing.

You Will Need

  • Roll of wallpaper lining

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