Learning objectives

Knowledge

  • To explore the relationship between animal size and heart rate.

Working scientifically

  • To interpret patterns in data.

Success criteria

Knowledge

  • I can recall what is meant by heart

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National curriculum

Science

Animals including humans

Pupils should be

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Display the Presentation: Gimme five! and ask the class to list five things found in the blood that they remember from last lesson.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Should distribute the research within a group when collecting data for the Activity: Pattern seeking heart rates; should have a line of best fit drawn on the Resource: Animal mass and heart rate scatter graph by an adult in advance to support pattern identification and predicting new values.

Pupils working at greater depth

Should evaluate the research of animals’ masses and consider factors that may affect the degree of trust (e.g. there are wide ranges of mass due to variation and different breeds of each animal or the website sources may not be trustworthy); could independently draw a line of best fit on the Resource: Animal mass and heart rate scatter graph when identifying patterns and predicting new values.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: recalling what is meant by heart rate

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Knowledge outcomes

  • I can recall that heart rate is the number of times the heart beats in one minute, measured in beats per minute or bpm.
  • I can research using multiple websites to find reliable animal masses, calculating an average if necessary.
  • I can identify that the larger the animal, the slower its heart rate (or the smaller the animal, the faster its heart rate).

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Vocabulary definitions

  • anomaly

    A result that does not fit the pattern.

  • data

    The information you collect when you observe.

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