Key Stage One : Science : Growing and Changing : Lesson Three – Body Changes


This science teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore ways that people grow and change using a range of different measurements and observations. The class can annotate a drawing of a body to record and explain how different parts change over time as someone gets older.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to explore ways that people grow and change using a range of different measurements and observations

Learning Objectives

Find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (water, food and air). Describe the importance for humans of eating the right amounts of different types of food.

Learning Outcomes

I know that humans need food and water to stay healthy. I can describe ways that the body changes and grows.

Body Changes

Teaching sequence to help the children explore ways that people grow and change using a range of different measurements and observations

Body Actions

Display posters for whole class discussion to help the children identify some of the special ways of looking after the human body

Body Changes

Template to help the children select and record a range of non-standard measurements for different parts of their body

Body Changes

Interactive activity to help the children explore ways that people grow and change using a range of different measurements and observations

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to explore ways that people grow and change using a range of different measurements and observations

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