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Key Stage 1 - Science Ourselves
Sc 2. Life processes and living things
 Topics for discussion. Suggestions for relevant  materials/apparatus.  Photographs.  Worksheets. Colouring sheets.  Teacher information sheets.
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Sc 2. Life Processes and living things
Quick Links: Life ProcessesHumans and other animalsVariation and classificationLiving things in their environment
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| Programme of Study 1a |
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| The differences between things that are living and things that have never been alive. |
Provide plant, plastic cup, newspaper (objects made from living material) and cut flower (once lived) for discussion.
Worksheet A: Tick and cross - living things/things that have never lived. |
| Programme of Study 1b |
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| That animals, including humans, move, feed, grow, use their senses and reproduce. |
Discuss: Life Processes.
Photographs of donkeys to compare with photographs of children.
Worksheet B (i): Make a moving person.
Worksheet B (ii): Make a moving donkey.
Worksheet C: Donkeys love these foods. Do you?
Worksheet D: The Secret of the Sticky Sandwich. Growing Timeline of pictures foal, yearling, adult, oldie to compare with baby, child, adult, grandparent (See resources for POS 2g)
Activity: Run, walk, skip, hop, kick. |
| Programme of Study 1c |
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| To relate life processes to animals and plants found in the local environment. |
Grow cress to observe life processes in plants.
Discuss: Life Cycle of a tree/ frog / donkey / human.
Worksheet E: Match the adult to the baby.
Worksheet F: Sort the creatures – Pet, wild, farm.
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| Humans and other animals |
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| Programme of Study 2a |
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| To recognise and compare the main external parts of the bodies of humans and other animals. |
Observe: drawings themselves/photographs.
Observe: drawings of donkey/poster.
Mirrors to observe and compare features with peers.
Compare differences and similarities eg hand/hoof, hair/coat, ears, eyes.
Information sheet 1 Why do donkeys have a cross on their back?
Worksheet G: Label parts of the body.
Worksheet H: Label parts of the donkey. |
| Programme of Study 2b |
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| That animals, including humans, move, feed, grow, use their senses and reproduce. |
List/Graph/Poster/examples of children’s favourite foods. Examples of hay, grass etc.
Colour sheet 1: Donkey eating
Colour sheet 2: Wheelbarrow of apples and carrots.
Information sheet 2: Donkey Sanctuary notes on feeding.
Worksheet I: Tick the human and donkey food. Which has two ticks?
Why humans and donkeys eat different foods? Why do humans and animals enjoy treats? Donkeys enjoy them too, polo/ginger biscuits. |
| Programme of Study 2c |
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| That taking exercise and eating the right types and amounts of food help humans and animals to keep healthy. |
Provide equipment and opportunity to exercise. How does it affect our body and why is this good for us?
Discuss: healthy teeth, oral hygiene, visits to the dentist and losing milk teeth.
Photograph: of donkeys, fat/thin.
Photograph: Sam the young donkey with clean teeth.
Photograph: Russell the older donkey with longer, dirty teeth.
Photograph: of beach donkeys exercising and resting.
Information sheet 3: Donkey teeth.
Worksheet J: Tick and cross the good food and bad food.
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| Programme of Study 2d |
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| About the role of drugs as medicines. |
Discuss: what happens when we feel unwell or have an accident.
Discuss: a visit to the doctor/hospital. Safe use of medicines, only prescribed medicines.
Common ailment. Compare head lice with sweet itch.
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| Programme of Study 2e |
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| How to treat animals with care and sensitivity. |
Discuss: what makes a child feel happy? Who looks after them?
Discuss: how they care for their pets. What makes a donkey happy?
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| Programme of Study 2f |
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| That humans and other animals can produce offspring and that these offspring grow into adults. |
Children to provide family photographs/baby/adult.
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| Programme of Study 2g |
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About the senses that enable humans and other animals to be aware of the world around them.
(See resources for POS 1b ) |
Provide a ‘feely bag' with variety of textures, rough, smooth, hard, cold etc. Use these words to describe a donkey's coat, nose etc.
Provide a tape of sounds including a donkey braying.
Describe the sounds loud, soft, high, low. Do we find them frightening or happy?
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