Making connections: Does hand span affect grip strength?

Exploring the relationship between hand span and grip strength through scientific enquiry.

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Introducing 'Making connections' in Science

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Unit outcomes

Pupils who are secure will be able to:

  • Recall key knowledge from previous units.
  • Apply knowledge in new contexts.

When working scientifically, pupils who are secure will be able to:

  • Carry out a full scientific enquiry.

For more information about this unit, please see the Teacher video: Making connections – How does hand span affect grip strength? in Lesson 1: Investigating grip strength – Planning.

Suggested prior learning

This unit revises and builds on learning from the previous Year 3 Science units.

Lessons

Lesson 1: Investigating grip strength – Planning

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Lesson 2: Investigating grip strength – Gathering data

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Lesson 3: Investigating grip strength – Analysing, concluding and evaluating

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Lesson 4: Investigating grip strength – Extending

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Lesson 5: Investigating grip strength – Presenting

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Key skills

This unit revisits the

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Key knowledge

This unit revises the

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Key vocabulary

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Equipment list

Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.

This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)

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Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected

  • Sticky notes ×1

  • Metre rulers

         ×10
  • Pegs ×30
  • String ×1

  • 6 different-sized fruits (e.g. grape, apple, orange, grapefruit, cantaloupe, watermelon – three class sets).

         ×3
  • Calculator ×1
  • Materials (tin foil, paper, bubble wrap, wood and glass) ×10

  • Different types of gloves (rubber, wool, leather, medical, gardening and oven gloves)
  • Sticky tape
  • Split pins ×30

  • Sharp pencils and modelling dough (to pierce holes)

         ×8
  • Wooden skewers Each child: 4
  • Calculator ×30

  • Shadow puppet theatre

         ×1

The equipment below is optional

  • 1 cm square paper

         ×30
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Cross-curricular opportunities

English: Spoken language.

Maths: Measurement, Number and place value, Statistics.

British values: Mutual respect.

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