Year 6 - Science
Legal and illegal drugs
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 identify how legal and illegal drugs can affect our bodies.
Key Notes
- Drugs are substances that change the way our bodies work.
- Some drugs are prescribed by a doctor.
- Information about drugs and their impact on the body can be researched using secondary sources of information.
- Some drugs are illegal because of the negative impact they have on our bodies. It is not safe to take illegal drugs.
Vocabulary To Learn
- drug: Drugs are substances that change the way our bodies work.
- illegal: Something that is illegal is against the law.
- addictive: Something addictive is something that is very hard to stop doing because your body craves more.
- prescribed: Drugs that have been prescribed by a doctor are safe for you to take if you follow the doctor's instructions exactly.
- impact: The impact of something is the effect it has.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils may think that the word 'drug' only refers to illegal drugs due to its common usage and that taking any drug will have a negative impact on their body.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the scientific idea in this lesson using two key points.
Drugs are substances that change the way our bodies work. Some drugs are prescribed by a doctor.
2. Define this scientific word and use it in context. 'drug'
Drugs are substances that change the way our bodies work. Include the word in a full scientific explanation, not as a single label.
3. Correct this common scientific misunderstanding.
Mistake: Pupils may think that the word 'drug' only refers to illegal drugs due to its common usage and that taking any drug will have a negative impact on their body. Correction: Using the examples in the lesson, explain that a drug is any substance which changes the way our bodies work and that they can be helpful or harmful.
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- Healthy hearts Study Guide
- Heart recovery time after exercise 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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- The impact of smoking Study Guide
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