Download SOW for Year 8 Personal health

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Key Stage Overview: The aim of this unit is………make pupils more aware how diet, and exercise can influence their health
Year 8; Term 2,
Time 5/ 6 weeks
Unit/Topic: Personal health
Knowledge &
Understanding
Learning Outcomes /
Intentions/Literacy/Numeracy
Pupil Experiences /
Resources.
Thinking Skills &
Personal Capabilities.
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Citizenship
What are the problems
associated with a poor
diet?
Pupils should be aware of the
general health problems caused
by a poor diet in this country
and in third world countries.
Brain Storm
Summarising information
For Vitamins C and D, protein
and the minerals Iron and
Calcium pupils will be able
describe sources, why we need
them to stay healthy and the
associated deficiency diseases.
Literacy: Note making
Internet research:
Images and information
to produce leaflets for
their folders on Vitamins
C and D, Proten, Iron and
Calcium. They must
provide info on Causes of
deficiency, symptoms and
ways in which the
deficiency can be
prevented.
ICT
Communication
Being creative
Self management:
Organise and plan how to
go about a task.
Focus, sustain attention
and persist with a task.
Managing Information:
Use own and other’s ideas
to locate sources of
information.
Select and classify
information.
Assessment
Opportunities / ICT
Skills
3/4 Periods
Printout of one leaflet will be
assessed.
Investigating which fruit
drinks contain the most
Vitamin C.
3 Periods
Pupils will plan and carry out an
investigation using DCPIP and 5
different fruit juices to find
out which contains the most
Vit C. They will produce a plan,
table of results and conclusion
on the work sheets provided.
Literacy: Writing a report.
Pupils will use the
information provided as a
guide to their plans.
Teachers may wish to
demo the use of DCPIP
and clarify how the fewer
drops required indicates
more Vit C.
Practical will be carried
out in groups.
Problem solving/ decision
making:
Planning a fair test
Self management:
Organise and plan how to
go about a task.
Focus, sustain attention
and persist with a task.
Working with others:
Develop routines of turn
taking, sharing and
cooperating
Communication
Write up of plan and
conclusion.
Classroom discussion
using information sheets
in handout.
Label a diagram of the
heart. Indicate with
arrows the direction of
blood flow in the heart.
Indicate the direction of
blood flow in a simple plan
of the circulatory system.
Managing information
Heart Dissection
Working with others.
Develop routines of turn
taking, sharing and
cooperating.
Manipulative skills of
dissection.
Following instructions
Numeracy: Drawing a bar chart
to illustrate results.
How does my heart work?
Pupils will be able to:
label a diagram of the heart
to include the chambers,
valves and blood vessels;
indicate direction of blood
flow in the heart, to the lungs
and major organs; describe
the role of blood in transport
of materials- delivery of food
and oxygen from intestines
and lungs to working cells and
the removal of CO2 and waste
from cells to lungs, kidney etc.
Completed report to show
plan, results and
conclusion.
Pupil self evaluation sheet
completed after teacher has
corrected their
Investigation.
Internet Search - Angina
1/2 periods
Role Play of the
circulatory system.
1 Period
Snakes and Ladders
2/3 periods
Resources and comments
Causes, symptoms and how
angina can be prevented.
Treatments: Angioplasty,
Stent placement and Triple
By-pass
Internet search for
information on angina and
animations on possible
treatments
ICT
Managing information
Make notes from
information obtained on
the internet
Complete
Internet Search at home
The concept of a double
circulation.
Transport of oxygen from the
lungs to the tissues.
Transport of carbon dioxide
from the tissues back to the
lungs.
Transport of glucose from the
gut to all tissues.
Take part in a role play to
show the path way of
blood in the body where
it collects and delivers
materials from and to.
Write about the journey
of a red blood cell/draw
up an itinerary of the
‘Body Tour of the
Circulatory system.
Group work
Being creative:
The pupils become the
blood in the system.
Homework: My Journey of the
body as a red blood cell.
Summarising information
gained throughout the
thematic approach.
Design a Snakes and
ladders board game. To
go up a ladder you must
land on a square which
has an activity to improve
health. A square with a
snakes head must include
an activity which is
harmful to your health.
Being creative
Group work
Access to info in textbooks
and through internet searches.
Access to computer rooms and
colour printer for producing
notes on vitamins and minerals.
Managing information:
Transport of Oxygen,
Carbon dioxide and
glucose.
Resources: