Starter quiz
- My skeleton is made from hard...
- 'bones' ✓
- Name the functions of your skeleton.
- It keeps you warm.
- It supports your body. ✓
- It protects your bones.
- It protects your softer organs. ✓
- It helps you sense things.
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- Match the organs to the bones that protect them.
- heart and lungs⇔rib cage ✓
- brain⇔skull ✓
- spinal cord⇔spine ✓
- Starting with the youngest, sort the life stages in to age order.
- 1⇔baby
- 2⇔toddler
- 3⇔child
- 4⇔teenager
- 5⇔adult
- Plants and animals are living things and they all...
- make a noise
- run around
- sleep
- grow ✓
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- Which pieces of equipment would you use to measure length?
- timer
- thermometer
- weighing scales
- ruler ✓
- measuring jug
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Exit quiz
- Which statement about the human skeleton is true?
- My skeleton is the same height as it was when I was born.
- My skeleton has grown but will stop growing when I go to secondary school.
- My skeleton gets smaller as I get older.
- My skeleton will continue to grow into early adulthood. ✓
- My skeleton will continue to grow until I die.
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- Our bones change and grow. This means that bone is a ______ thing.
- 'living' ✓
- Which of the following are questions that a scientist might ask about bones?
- Did you know that the smallest human bone is in the ear?
- Which bone is the longest? ✓
- There are 26 bones in the human foot.
- Do bones get weaker as we get older? ✓
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- Match the equipment to the unit of measure.
- tape measure⇔centimetre ✓
- thermometer⇔degrees Celsius ✓
- measuring cylinder⇔millilitres ✓
- weighing scales⇔gram ✓
- A scientist gathers and records information called ______ in tables and charts.
- 'data' ✓
- Look at this table of results. How old is the person that has the longest foot?
- '40' ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Bone is a living thing. Our bones change throughout our lives.
- Scientists ask questions and then plan how to carry out the right type of investigation to find answers.
- Scientists choose the correct equipment to be able to measure accurately.
- Scientists gather and record data using tables and charts.
Common misconception
Children may think that bone is not a living thing and therefore does not grow.
This lesson is all about children finding out for themselves. They will find answers to the enquiry question: Do bones grow as we get older?
Keywords
Plan - A plan has all the steps that will be taken during an investigation.
Measure - To measure is to use equipment to find numbers to describe something such as its length, weight, size or time.
Equipment - Equipment includes all the things needed to carry out an investigation.
Record - To record information is to keep it so that it can be passed on to others.
Data - Data is information collected during an investigation. It may be numbers, symbols, pictures, text, graphs and more.
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