Higher:
Is able to explain some stages of growth in some animals
Middle:
Can describe how a baby animal can be born
Lower:
Knows about animals that are born outside the body and in eggs
Higher:
Is able to draw the data on a suitable graph and explain outcomes
Middle:
Can record the data on a table
Lower:
Is able to accurately measure someone's height
Lesson Recap Starter: Think back to your last lesson. What are the different stages of the life cycle of a chicken?
Lesson Starter: Look at these animals - can you name the babies of each of these animals?
Can children name the offspring of these animals? The next slide gives the answer.
Presentation - Starter Slide.
Answer questions and take part in activities during the presentation.
Talk Partners - What do children know about the ways animals are born?
Key Concept:
During this unit, each lesson contains a key concept question housed in the '30 Second Challenge' slide. To help children master this content so the knowledge moves from their short term memory to their long term memory, at the beginning of the follow on lesson the question from the previous lesson is revisited.
The questions covered during this unit include:
1. What are the different stages of the life cycle of a chicken?
2. What does reproduction mean?
3. What are the stages of growth a baby goes through to reach adulthood?
4. What are the stages of growth from adulthood to old age?
5. What are inherited characteristics? How are characteristics inherited?
6. Explain the life cycle of a frog.
7. What are the stages of a butterfly’s life cycle?
Presentation
Expert Film: Zoologist Mike Linley. He talks about the different ways animals are born.
Expert Film: Ben Dawes, who farms sheep, explains how sheep grow during pregnancy and what they need when they're born.
How we deliver the Gatsby Benchmarks:
2 - Learning from career and labour market information: Pop along to Developing Experts career’s zone to find out about jobs in your area.
4 - Linking curriculum learning to careers: This unit showcases careers that relate to the human body. Access our 360° virtual work tours.
7 - Encounters with Further and Higher Education: Pop along to Developing Experts career’s zone to find out about training providers in your area.
Presentation - Expert Film.
Measuring Your Height!
Children to work with their talk partners or in small groups to measure each other's heights. They may need to learn how to use a tape measure and different measurements.
It would be a good idea to create a class graph on the wall or whiteboard. Pupils to write their name on a sticky note and place it on the board as to how tall they are.
Ask children these questions:
Why do you think that children of the same age are not the same height? (food, family characteristics).
At what age do you think we stop growing?
Create a whole class graph or pictogram which shows the differing heights of children in the class.
Measuring Height
Graph paper
Self-stick notes
Tape measure
Handout
Complete the Handout. Ask the children to complete the close activity to show their learning from today's lesson.
Alternatively, the children can draw their bar graphs on the 2nd page of the handout.
Quiz
With their talk partners, the children are to go through the quiz at the end of the presentation and answer the questions.
Handout
Quiz in presentation
Do children recognise that our height grows as we grow?
Can they measure by comparing or using standard measures?
Can they complete a table?
Can they plot points on a simple graph?
Can they read information from graph?
Can they find a pattern in the data (in this case, older children are taller than younger children) and use it to answer the investigation question?
Quizzes in pupil zone.
Unit knowledge organiser and test available in unit documents area.
Animals create offspring its called.... (reproduction)
We grow when...
As we get older, we will...
The Science Behind the Science
Animals grow by ingesting a variety of nutrients, including carbohydrates, lipids, sugars, fats, and proteins, then digesting them into their chemical components. These components are distributed throughout the body and used to build new cells. Hormonal and environmental factors can trigger animal growth, which usually ceases once the animal has reached adult size. This is a different process from plants, which grow continuously over their lifetime by enlarging existing cells.
Notice that animals, including humans, have offspring that grow into adults.
The study of the characteristics, systems, and behaviours of humans and other animals, and of plants; the interactions and relationships between and among them, and with the environment.
Noticing patterns.
Gathering and recording data to help in answering questions
Cross-Curricular Link for Mathematics: Measurement: Ask pupils to measure the arm length of class members. Then choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction (m/cm); to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers.
Grade 3 - Animals