Skeletal and Muscular System

Year 3

Unit Overview

This term is all about investigating. We will be exploring what a fair test is and how we conduct these. We will be having hands on experiences observing, measuring, predicting and concluding.

❇ MEMORABLE MOMENT

Hands on experience during all investigations.

We will be exploring food and stopping our joints from moving freely whilst completing simple tasks.

️✏️ WRITING OPPORTUNITIES

Completing our investigation booklets.

🌳 LEARNING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM

Movement on the playground exploring joints and muscles in our bodies.

Unit Sequence: Learning Intentions

  1. Gather and record findings in a variety of ways

  2. Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat.

  3. Set up and carry out some simple, comparative and fair tests, making predictions for what might happen

  4. Animal diets

  5. Identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement. - 3 lessons

  6. Identify and group animals that have no skeleton, an internal skeleton (endoskeleton) and an external skeleton (exoskeleton).

Scientific Enquiry: Investigations

  1. What are our joints for?

    • Research major bones in the human body.

    • Explore what happens when their joints are obstructed.

  2. Which is the fattiest food?

    • Explore how to set up a simple, comparative test.

    • Make predictions.

    • Record results in a simple table.


🏁 BIG FINISH

Each investigation comes to its own conclusion.

📖 FOCUS TEXT(S)

George's Marvellous Medicine