KS1 Threadworm Unit (Dirty Beastie)
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 'germs' (appearance, size, habitat) and leads to the need for good hygiene and rules on keeping hands clean.
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 Scientific enquiry
Investigative skills
2. Pupils should be taught:
Considering evidence and evaluating
h) make simple comparisons [for example, hand span, shoe size] and identify simple patterns or associations
KS1 Science Sc2 Life processes and living things
Life processes
1. Pupils should be taught:
a) the differences between things that are living and things that have never been alive
b) that animals, including humans, move, feed, grow, use their senses and reproduce
Humans and other animals
2. Pupils should be taught:
b) that humans and other animals need food and water to stay alive
KS1 Science Breadth of study
2. During the key stage, pupils should be taught to:
Health and safety
b) recognise that there are hazards in living things, materials and physical processes, and assess risks and take action to reduce risks to themselves and others.
KS1 PSHE Knowledge, skills and understanding
Preparing to play an active role as citizens
2. Pupils should be taught:
d) to agree and follow rules for their group and classroom, and understand how rules help them
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
Dirtie Beastie
Learning outcomes
- To learn how to maintain personal hygiene.
- To understand how to prevent diseases from being spread.
- To learn how to make simple choices that improve health and well-being.
- To make simple size comparisons between living things.
Extension work
'Class survey' PDF
Questionnaire about hand washing with multiple choice answers - leads to further class discussion after task is completed.
'Word search' PDF
Find the key words in the word search.
'Dirty hands make you sick' PDF
Fill in the missing words:- close procedure with key vocabulary.
Additional Resources
The Clean Crusaders pack contains the following:
- 1 x Lesson Plan
- 1 x A3 Poster to display in classroom
- 2 x sheets of stickers to be handed out to children
- 2 x colouring sheets to be photocopied
- 50 x leaflets to be handed to parents
(This free pack excludes the video which needs to be ordered separately by sending a cheque for £9.99 - see details below)
Clean Crusader videos are also available to educate and entertain the children with hygiene messages. These can be ordered by sending a cheque for £9.99 payable to 'McNeil Ltd' to:
Clean Crusaders Campaign
McNeil Ltd
Enterprise House
Station Road
Loudwater
High Wycombe
HP10 9UF
Please include your delivery address details with your cheque and write 'Clean Crusaders Campaign' on the back of the cheque.
For further information contact McNeil Ltd on 01494 453 692.
Useful web links
Downloads
Pupil Section Exe Files
This is a version 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.
Dirty Beastie
PDF files
Letter to Parents containing general advice about threadworms
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