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  • 6.4.5: Materials (age 7-9)
  • 6.4.6: Materials (age 9-11)
  • 6.4.7: The Human Body (age 7-9)
  • 6.4.8: The Human Body (age 9-11)
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Science

The Human Body (age 7-9)

"This CD contains outstanding resources, audio and visual, which not only stimulates thinking but motivates responses."

CHRIS GIBSON, AST FOR BOUROUGH OF MERTON

 

Covering the human biology element of the Life Processes and Living Things strand of the Key Stage 2 science curriculum,

The Human Body Age 7-9 uses the best of BBC footage to support and develop your pupils' understanding.

You are supported in using the resources on the CD-ROM by a printed teacher's book, which offers a range of activities for the whole class, including opportunities for practical work and cross-curricular links.

Contents:

Unit 1: Look at us humans!

• What are humans made of?
• Hairy facts
• Skin
• Can two humans look the same?
• Body parts

 

Unit 2: What can you do?

• You are amazing!
• Communication
• Musical abilities
• My musical performance
• Dance
• A little learning
• Camp Leakey Sanctuary

 

Unit 3: The five senses

• Taste
• A world of smells
• Living without sight
• The Braille alphabet
• Sensory connections
• A day in the life of a service dog
• The eye-eye puzzle (1)
• The eye-eye puzzle (2)
• A sensory garden

 

Unit 4: Why do we need to eat?

• Think about food
• A world of food
• Looking for variety
• The healthy eating game
• A healthy lunch
• What happens to food inside us?

 

Unit 5: All about teeth

• Your first teeth
• Your milk teeth
• Your adult teeth
• Different teeth for different jobs
• Teeth for digestion
• Your own toolkit
• A new tool
• Teeth to help you talk
• Quiz time: What can you remember about teeth?

 

Unit 6: Looking after your teeth

• Why clean your teeth?
• Diet and teeth
• Visiting the dentist
• Losing teeth
• Quiz time: Looking after your teeth

 

Unit 7: Your skeleton

• What is a skeleton?
• Vertebrates and invertebrates
• What is a skeleton for?
• Skeleton shapes
• A tall story
• Quiz time: Your skeleton

 

Unit 8: Bones

• Your bones before birth
• Some interesting facts about your bones
• Bones as clues
• Bones need protecting
• Broken bones
• Quiz time: Your bones

 

Unit 9: Looking at joints

• Where are your joints?
• Joints in action
• Which joints are moving?
• Amazing joints
• Looking carefully at joints

 

Unit 10: How do muscles move bones?

• Feeling muscles
• How do you use your muscles?
• Mighty muscles
• The story of Achilles

 

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