PLHS - Support for Learning

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This year in Science the ELP pupils will be looking at The Body!

As part of an extensive project exploring concepts in physiology, health and fitness, they will be investigating and learning about some of the following:

• body structure and the skeleton
• major organs
• sight and sound
• teeth
• digestion
• respiration
• movement
• health
• fitness
• growth
• reproduction

In providing an overview and investigating pupils’ prior knowledge we will be undertaking a series of lessons that will create our very own “Classroom Body”!  This will be a wall presentation of a skeleton/body that will allow us to add information as we progress through the course of the year - and remind us of all the interesting and important things we will have learned!

 Please follow the link at the top of this page to our introductory lesson “The thigh bone is connected to the hipbone”. In this lesson, the song “Dem bones, dem bones” ( a well-known traditional spiritual song, often used to teach basic anatomy to children) is used as the starting point. Follow the internet link to the lyrics and music  -  in our class this is linked up to an overhead projector. The children can sing along to the tune and hopefully following some of the lyrics on the projector screen.

The worksheet provides a basis for some open questioning and other prior knowledge activities that allow us to determine what the children already know.

The second linked sheet (Name that body part) allows us to continue our introduction to the overall project - continuing to assess prior knowledge as we progress.

Again the use of an internet resource allows opportunity for pupils to interact and practise their ICT skills - once more, we project the website onto the big classroom overhead projector screen.