Infancy stage of development lesson and activity - Year 5 KS2 - Animals including humans

A lesson to cover the Year 5 science topic, ‘Animals, including humans’.

LI: To describe the changes that occur during the infancy stage of human development

Includes a ‘Guess the infant’ activity. Use photos of staff as infants as a hook into the lesson – can children work with their table to guess who is in each photo?

Children have to create a timeline to show the changes that occur in humans during the infancy stage of development (from birth to 2 years). Children use an I-pad/tablet to research the average age when these changes occur.

Differentiated activity. Children to draw the timeline in their science books, thinking carefully about how to space out the intervals at equal distances. Ready-made timelines are provided to support lower ability pupils if needed. Challenge on the prompt sheet - children to find two more changes that occur during infancy and add them to the timeline in a different colour.