KS1 Head Lice Unit (Who is HL?)
Introduction
This section covers several aspects of KS1 Science and Personal, Social and Health Education syllabuses. The intention is to provide online content and activities for pupils, along with additional teacher support in the form of suggestions and ideas for classroom work and downloadable activity sheets.
The pupil content begins with an introduction on the basic facts about Head lice and leads onto treatment and prevention.
The content and structure of the unit has been designed to complement the National Curriculum for England and Wales and the DFES Schemes of Work. This flexible approach enables teachers to direct pupils to key content relevant to their teaching approaches but also, introduce pupils to new topics and extending activities for both online and offline work.
Curriculum references
National Curriculum
KS1 Science Sc1: Investigative skills
2. Pupils should be taught:
Considering evidence and evaluating h) make simple comparisons (for example, hand span, shoes size) and identify simple patterns or associations
KS1 Science Sc2: Life processes and living things
Life processes
1. Pupils should be taught:
b) that animals, including humans, move, feed, grow, use their senses and reproduce
c) to relate life processes to animals and plants found in the local environment
Humans and other animals
2. Pupils should be taught:
a) to recognise and compare the main external parts of the bodies of humans and other animals
b) that humans and other animals need food and water to stay alive
f) that humans and other animals can produce offspring and that these offspring grow into adults
KS1 Science Breadth of study
1. During the key stage, pupils should be taught the Knowledge, skills and understanding through:
c) using a range of sources of information and data, including ICT-based sources
Communication
2. During the key stage, pupils should be taught to:
a) use simple scientific language to communicate ideas and to name and describe living things, materials, phenomena and processes
KS1 PSHE Knowledge, skills and understanding
Developing a healthy, safer lifestyle
3. Pupils should be taught:
a) how to make simple choices that improve their health and well-being
b) to maintain personal hygiene
c) how some diseases spread and can be controlled
DFES Standards Schemes of Work
KS1 Science Year 2 Unit 2A Health and growth
Classroom Applications
Who is HL?
Learning outcomes
- To learn that animals, including humans, move, feed, grow, use their senses and reproduce.
- To relate life processes to animals found in the local environment.
- To recognise and compare the main external parts of the bodies of humans and other animals.
- To understand that humans and other animals need food and water to stay alive.
- To understand that humans and other animals can produce offspring and that these offspring grow into adults.
Extension work
'Head lice are not nice' PDF
Work sheet with key vocabulary.
Task: to find rhyming word sets.
'Things I know about head lice' PDF
Fill in the missing words - cloze procedure with key vocabulary provided.
Useful web links
Head lice
Boots the chemist
Downloads
Pupil Section Exe Files
These are versions of the pupil material for this topic that you can download and use offline. Simply save the .exe file to your desktop and double-click it.
Who is HL?
PDF files
Things I Know About Head Lice PDF
Spotting, Treating, Tracking - advice for parents and teachers
Treating Head Lice - your guide to keeping your family free from headlice
Letter to Parents to accompany the above advice on Spotting, Treating and Tracking head lice
Letter to Parents containing general advice about head lice
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