Teaching : The Curriculum : The curriculum at key stages 1 and 2Primary Making Sense of Health has produced three 20-minute, attractive and informative films that deal with health education issues within the context of teaching science.
The films are Teeth and Eating, The Human Machine and Amazing Micro-organisms.
The content of the films has been chosen to reflect the requirements of the National Curriculum programme ofstudy in science.
At Key Stage 1 the programme of study states that pupils should be taught:
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Humans and other animals need food and water to stay alive, Sc2 2b |
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That taking exercise and eating the right types of food help humans to keep healthy, Sc2 2 c |
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About the role of drugs as medicines, Sc2 2d |
At Key Stage 2 the programme of study states that children should be taught:
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About the care and function of teeth, Sc 2 2a |
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About the need for food for activity and about the importance of an adequate and varied diet, Sc2 2b |
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That the heart acts as a pump to circulate the blood through vessels around the body including the lungs, Sc2 2 2c |
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About the effects of exercise and rest on the pulse rate, Sc2 2c |
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That humans and other animals have skeletons and muscles to support and protect their bodies and help them to move, Sc2 2e |
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About the effects on the human body of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs and how these relate to personal health, Sc2 2g |
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About the importance of exercise for good health, Sc2 2h |
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That micro-organisms are living organisms that are too small to be seen, and that they may be beneficial (for example, in the breakdown of waste, in making bread) or harmful (for example, in causing disease, in causing food to go mouldy), Sc2 5f |
You can use the activities related to the film Teeth and Eating to support the following QCA schemes of work.
Unit 2A Health and growth
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Why we eat and drink |
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Eating different kinds of food |
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Planning a meal |
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Exercising |
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Children and young animals growing into adults |
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Looking after babies and children |
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Taking medicines |
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Medicines and safety |
Unit 3A Teeth and eating
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Types of food |
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Eating for health |
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What animals eat |
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Investigating what pets eat |
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Looking at teeth |
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Different types of teeth |
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Losing milk teeth |
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Healthy teeth |
You can use the activities related to the film The Human Machine to support the following QCA schemes of work.
Unit 4A Moving and growing
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Bones and skeletons |
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Comparing skeletons |
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Growing |
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Testing ideas about body size |
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Supporting the body |
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Muscles and bones |
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Muscles and exercise |
Unit 5A Keeping healthy
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A poor diet |
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A varied diet |
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Exercising |
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The heart and lungs |
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Measuring pulse rate |
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Fast and slow pulse rates |
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Exercise and pulse rate |
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Drugs, tobacco, alcohol and health |
You can use the activities related to the film Amazing Micro-organisms to support the following QCA schemes of work.
Unit 6B Micro-organisms
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Germs and disease |
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What makes people ill? |
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Mouldy food |
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What causes decay? |
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Finding out about yeast |
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Micro-organisms in food production |
