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Science at key stage 3    (Year 7)

Unit 7B: Reproduction
Section 11: a. How do humans change as they grow?

QCA

Objectives

Children should learn:
  • that periods of rapid growth occur during the human life cycle
  • to decide what sort of graph is appropriate

Activities

Outcomes

Children:
  • Use quick oral questions to elicit pupils' knowledge of the human life cycle, eg babyhood, childhood, adolescence, puberty and adulthood.
  • Ask pupils to recall times when they grew rapidly in primary school and identify the main ways in which they changed. Use secondary data of height at different ages to plot growth charts and identify the main periods of time when rapid growth takes place.
  • recognise that rapid growth occurs at different times in the human life cycle and identify when this happens on a growth graph
  • recognise that there is a wide variation in the development of children
  • present data about height in an appropriate chart or graph

Points to note

  • Many pupils are sensitive about their weight. Sensitivity is needed with height because a small but significant number of children have growth problems. Height/weight charts used by health professionals illustrate the range of expected heights and weights. These can be used to reassure pupils at the extremes of the range.
  • Teachers will be aware of the need for sensitivity to pupils who may mature earlier or later than the majority of their peers.

Sections in this unit

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1. a. How does a new life start?
2. b. How does a new life start?
3. c. How does a new life start?
4. d. How does a new life start?
5. e. How does a new life start?
6. When can human fertilisation take place?
7. a. How is the human foetus supported as it develops?
8. b. How is the human foetus supported as it develops?
9. What do newborn babies need?
10. Checking progress
11. a. How do humans change as they grow?
12. b. How do humans change as they grow?
13. c. How do humans change as they grow?
14. Reviewing work