Year 6 - Science
Evidence about healthy lifestyle: presentation (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 communicate your findings from 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.
- It is important to examine information from a range of reliable sources.
- Findings can be presented in a range of ways including oral and written forms.
- Information for the general public should be communicated in a clear and accessible way.
Vocabulary To Learn
- lifestyle: A person's lifestyle is the way they choose to live.
- research: To research something is to find out about it or investigate it carefully.
- evidence: Evidence is information which helps us to prove that something is true or not true.
- secondary source: Secondary sources are texts, images or objects created using information gathered by others.
- communicate: To communicate is to share or exchange information or ideas.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils may think that scientific information communicated with the public should be presented in a complicated and 'wordy' way to make it more seem more intelligent or 'official'.
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. It is important to examine information from a range of reliable sources.
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 that scientific information communicated with the public should be presented in a complicated and 'wordy' way to make it more seem more intelligent or 'official'. Correction: Explain that information intended to help people make healthy lifestyle choices is best presented in a way that will allow as many people as possible to engage with it, so that they can make informed choices.
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- Healthy hearts Study Guide
- Heart recovery time after exercise Study Guide
- Legal and illegal drugs Study Guide
- Monitoring and improving lifestyle choices (Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- Mushrooms and mycoprotein (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- The impact of a balanced diet Study Guide
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