Human timeline
Exploring how humans change from a baby through to old age, including puberty, measurements of growth and gestation periods.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Order the stages in growth and development from birth to old age.
- Describe physical and developmental changes from a baby through to old age.
- Describe changes that occur in males and females during puberty.
- Suggest ways to manage the changes that occur during puberty.
- Recall what is meant by a gestation period.
- Describe how gestation varies across animals and compare this to humans.
When working scientifically, pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Use data to describe growth from baby to adult.
- Identify where on the graph the rate of growth changes.
- Use a line graph to make predictions about height.
- Choose a suitable title and axes labels for the scatter graph and plot data on the scatter graph.
Please note that Kapow Primary Science lessons are designed to be 1 hour and 30 minutes long to reflect the requirements of a core subject.
This unit only has three lessons.
Suggested prior learning
Living things: Life cycles and reproduction
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Growing old
Lesson 2: Puberty
Lesson 3: Comparing human gestation
Key skills
Graphing
- Representing data
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Key vocabulary
anomaly
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Unit resources
Assessment – Science Y5: Human timeline
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