Science Healthy Eating 5 Powerpoints Planning Worksheets Year 5 and 6

A great unit on healthy eating.

Lovely series of 5 powerpoints plus bits and bobs.

sample planning :

Keeping healthy

In this unit we will learn:

· there are many aspects to keeping healthy

· about the heart

· how heartbeat is affected by exercise

· how early ideas about diet & health were tested

Enquiry Skill Focus:

· repeating measurements

· representing data in bar charts and graphs and interpreting these

· using results to draw conclusions

Begin by discussing ‘science’ with the class. What do they think of the subject? Can they name any important scientific skills?

Introduce topic and ask children what they think the word ‘health’ means. Talk with talk partners. Children to find definition in dictionary and write class definition on strips of paper for display wall. Lead into a class discussion on keeping healthy; can the children predict what sorts of topics we might we might be covering? Can the HA children predict what SC1 investigations we might be carrying out? Introduce children to the resources which will be available to help them during this topic; the working wall plus table mats. Explain that each science topic will have a topic page and a glossary. This glossary gives the definitions of important vocabulary which they will come across during the unit.

Activity One

Children to feed back and complete class prior knowledge map. (Even if facts are not correct, add them on and clear up misconceptions throughout unit.) Children could add to their own map in a different colour any facts they have not got, which their peers suggest.