Year 6 - Science
Evidence about healthy lifestyle: do and review (non-statutory)
Keeping healthy
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Unit Summary
This unit examines how diet, exercise, drugs, and lifestyle impact body function. It focuses on planning scientific enquiries, controlling variables, taking precise measurements, and recording complex data. Emphasis is on presenting findings, drawing conclusions, and evaluating scientific evidence.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to evaluate a range of scientific reports about healthy and unhealthy lifestyles.
Key Notes
- Scientists collect evidence from research that helps us to make informed choices about healthy lifestyles.
- We can determine the reliability of a source by looking at who wrote it, for what purpose and using what evidence.
- It is important to examine information from a range of reliable sources.
Vocabulary To Learn
- lifestyle: A person's lifestyle is the way they choose to live.
- evidence: Evidence is information we can use to prove or disprove scientific ideas.
- enquiry: An enquiry is an investigation to find out more about something.
- reliable: A reliable source is one where you can trust the information that the source provides.
- evaluate: To evaluate a source of information is to judge its quality or reliability.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils may think than any information written down or published online is automatically reliable and trustworthy, purely because of its appearance in the public sphere.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the scientific idea in this lesson using two key points.
Scientists collect evidence from research that helps us to make informed choices about healthy lifestyles. We can determine the reliability of a source by looking at who wrote it, for what purpose and using what evidence.
2. Define this scientific word and use it in context. 'lifestyle'
A person's lifestyle is the way they choose to live. Include the word in a full scientific explanation, not as a single label.
3. Correct this common scientific misunderstanding.
Mistake: Pupils may think than any information written down or published online is automatically reliable and trustworthy, purely because of its appearance in the public sphere. Correction: Use the lesson resources to explain how information sources, particularly those online, can vary in terms of reliability and that there are things we can do to help determine how much we can trust the information we find.
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