Learning Assessment:

W Teaching activities Resources

objective Success Criteria
To notice that Intro: Explanation texts MUST: correctly arrange
humans have Ask children, to think, pair, share on each on each of the following: the pictures of the human
offspring which  how a baby is different to them Instructions on IWB life cycle
grow into adults  how they are different to a teenager
 how a teenager is different to an adult Worksheets SHOULD: label the stages
To name and  how a younger adult is different to an elderly adult with their names and the
compare the Ask them to compare how people at these different stages of life look and act and Images to cut and age ranges that they
stages in human what they are and are not allowed and able to do stick cover
development Read through the explanation text on the human life cycle, explaining technical
words e.g. womb, nutrition etc COULD: make notes
(45 mins) about each stage of the
Main: cycle
Give children an explanation text on the human life cycle
Children need to use the information in this explanation text to complete a diagram
on the human life cycle, which requires them to:
 cut and stick an image for each stage
 name each stage (foetus, baby, child, teenager, adult, elderly)
 add the age for each stage (N/A, 0 to 2, 3 to 12, 13 to 17, 18 to 66 and
67+)
Extension: Children to make notes about each stage of the cycle in their books
6 (not enough space on the worksheet)

Plenary:
Read the information at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/living_things/human_life_cycles/read/1/
(if link does not work, Google ‘BBC human life cycle read’) and explain how
adolescence is another word for the teenage years
Show children the activities at
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/living_things/human_life_cycles/play
/ (if link does not work, Google ‘BBC human life cycle play’)
 https://hwb.wales.gov.uk/cms/hwbcontent/Shared
%20Documents/VTC/Phase2delivery/Wales/Science/Keystage2/Lifeprocesses
an/Lifecycles/Introduction/activity2pop.htm (if link does not work, Google
‘‘Every school life cycles ks1’, select frog life cycles and select activity 2)
For each activity, ask children to think, pair, share where each image should go
and then have them come and drag the images to the correct places on the IWB
Complete the quiz at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/living_things/human_life_cycles/read/1/
(if link does not work, Google ‘BBC human life cycle quiz’)
Ask children to vote for which answer is correct for each question

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