- Using models, video clips or other illustrations, help pupils to identify, name and describe the functions of the mature human reproductive organs. Ask pupils to annotate diagrams of male and female reproductive organs.
- Remind pupils of work on cells and establish that for fertilisation to occur, a male cell (sperm) fuses with a female cell (egg). Establish that sperm are produced in testes and eggs in ovaries. Talk with pupils about sperm being deposited in the vagina and having to move to where the eggs are and eggs being moved down the oviduct, illustrating,
eg with video and software simulations. Explain fertilisation in terms of the fusion of nuclei of sperm and egg.
- Discuss with pupils, illustrating with,
eg video clips, photographs, software simulations, how the cells divide and increase in number. Ask pupils to draw, or label, and sequence pictures or diagrams illustrating ovulation, fertilisation, cell division and implantation.
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- name, locate and describe the functions of the reproductive structures,
eg ovary, oviduct, uterus, vagina, penis, testis, sperm duct
- describe fertilisation in terms of the fusion of cells
- sequence changes in sperm and eggs during and after ovulation
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