PR-6170RUK Science A STEM Approach - Primary 1

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Lesson 2 Living Things LIVING THINGS HAVE NEEDS Teacher Notes Science Inquiry Focus: What do humans need? Skills Development/Working Scientifically: • Questioning • Investigating and experimenting • Analysing (sorting and classifying) • Recording and communicating Science Learning Outcome: • Pupils reflect on their own lives to identify their needs from their wants and examine how they meet their basic needs at home. Technology/Engineering/Mathematics Links: • Playing an interactive game online. • Following a series of steps to create a simple circle booklet. Background Information • All living things have basic needs, which vary slightly among humans, plants and animals. The common needs are air, food and water. Meeting these physical needs allows a living thing to move, grow and reproduce. • As well as air, food and water, humans and other animals also need sleep and protection from environmental conditions. For most humans, protection comes in the form of clothing and shelter that allows them to stay safe and maintain a healthy body temperature. For this reason, warmth and temperature are often included as basic needs. • Humans and some animals have physical, social and emotional needs. Their physical needs are basic needs that help them to survive. Social and emotional needs are those that give humans a sense of belonging and connection to the people and places they encounter, such as love and relationships. • A famous theorist, Abraham Maslow, developed a hierachy of human needs. This demonstrates that physical needs must be met before any other need. For more information on Maslow’s hierachy of needs, go to . Assessment Focus: • Make observations about the pupil’s ability to make predictions that are related to the question and their ability to compare the definitions of needs and wants to their predictions. • Use the circle booklets as a formative assessment of the pupil’s knowledge of how they meet their five basic needs at home. Resources • Online interactive game—Plants and Animals at • One A3 piece of paper • Watch the online video, —Needs vs Wants at • One A3 copy of page 10. Each poster may be coloured in, cut out and laminated to display in the classroom (optional). • One copy of page 11 for each pupil. The booklet may be cut out prior to the lesson to save time, if required. Viewing sample 8 Science: A STEM APPROACH Infants 978-1-912760-14-5 Prim-Ed Publishing – www.prim-ed.com
Living Things LIVING THINGS HAVE NEEDS Lesson 2 Lesson Plan Introduction: 1. As a class, display the interactive activity at and choose pupils to click on a living thing in the scene to take a photograph. Pupils explain their reasoning behind each choice in terms of its basic needs. Alternatively, pupils can brainstorm living things and explain their needs orally. Development: 2. As a class, ask pupils What do humans need to survive? Do they need more than just food, air and water? Brainstorm things that humans need to survive and write pupils’ ideas on an A3 piece of paper to create a poster. Note: Add all ideas, regardless of whether they are a need or a want. Leave space at the bottom of the page to write a few sentences about humans wants and needs at the end of the lesson. 3. Watch the online video Needs vs Wants at . Alternatively, display the posters on page 10 to show examples of wants and needs. Using a think-pair-share, pupils answer the questions What is a need? and What is a want? 4. Review the list of needs written on the ‘What do humans need to survive?' poster and put a cross through any that pupils think are wants, not needs. Discuss that as humans we have five basic needs: air, food, water, sleep and protection. Write these keywords on the whiteboard. 5. Individually, pupils reflect on how they meet their five basic needs and present them using the circle booklet template on page 11. Pupils cut around the outside of the whole booklet. Note: Booklets may be cut out by adult helpers prior to the lesson, if required. Pupils turn their booklet over and copy the five basic needs from the whiteboard: air, food, water, sleep and protection. Pupils fold each circle inwards to create a booklet. When this is complete, pupils open one circle at a time and draw images on the inside of each circle to show how they meet each particular need in their lives. Differentiation • Less able pupils can have the booklet prepared for them with the five needs written on the outside. Adult helpers can assist pupils to think of how they meet their needs at home. • More able pupils should be encouraged to write a short sentence about how they meet their needs inside each circle; for example, inside the shelter circle pupils may write, I live in a house. 6. When the circle booklets are completed, select pupils to share their pages with the class. Reflection: 7. As a class, reflect on what humans want and need by referring to the A3 poster created in the development. At the bottom of the page, write the sentence starters Humans need … and Humans want … Ask pupils to name the things that humans need to survive and name some examples of our wants to complete the sentences. Note: Keep this poster accessible or on display for later lessons.Viewing sample www.prim-ed.com – Prim-Ed Publishing 978-1-912760-14-5 Infants Science: A STEM APPROACH 9
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