Science KS1 Unit 2A Health and growth

Through this unit children learn that animals (including humans) grow and reproduce. They can use ideas about feeding and growth to learn about ways we need to look after ourselves to stay healthy. Experimental and investigative work focuses on:

• making and recording observations and simple comparisons.
• presenting information in charts and tables.

Children will also have opportunities to consider ways in which science is relevant to their personal health and to relate science to aspects of their everyday life (food, exercise, medicines), and to recognise and control hazards and risks to themselves.

This unit takes approximately 9 hours.

OTHER RESOURCES

• collection of pictures of adults and young including some where young look different at different stages eg ducks, hens and some where young and adult appear totally different eg frogs and tadpoles
• collection of packaging for medicines eg safety bottles, bubble packs
• secondary sources eg videos, posters showing the needs of young children