Learning objectives

Knowledge

  • To summarise the key structures and purpose of the circulatory system.

Success criteria

Knowledge

  • I can describe the circulatory system as a
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National curriculum

Science

Animals including humans

Pupils

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Display the Presentation: Health 3, 2, 1 and ask the children to write down their suggestions.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Should use the Activity: Postcard from the circulatory system: support version that provides keyword prompts and sentences to complete when describing the circulatory system; could watch the Pupil video: The heart and circulatory system before the lesson as a pre-teaching tool.

Pupils working at greater depth

Should make comparisons between the human and fish circulatory systems using the Resource: Comparing circulatory systems by identifying similarities and differences (e.g. both have a heart and blood flowing in blood vessels but fish use gills instead of lungs to get oxygen into the body and have a single loop in their circulatory system instead of the double loop found in humans); could choose an extension activity relating to the heart and circulatory system from the Resource: Stretch and challenge: Circulation and health.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: describing the circulatory system as the heart

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Knowledge outcomes

  • I can describe the circulatory system as a group of organs, including the heart and blood vessels, that transport blood around the body.
  • I can recall that the heart is a muscular pump that pushes the blood to the lungs and the body in two separate loops, making it a double-circulatory system.
  • I can describe the pathway of blood around the human circulatory system through blood vessels, including moving from the heart to the lungs to pick up oxygen and remove carbon dioxide and then returning to the heart to be passed onto the body to drop off oxygen and pick up waste carbon dioxide.
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Vocabulary definitions

  • blood vessels

    The tubes that blood flows in around the body.

  • carbon dioxide

    A waste gas produced by the body.

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