Head Lice Unit 4-7 yr olds (Who is HL?)
Introduction
This section covers several aspects of the 5-14 Guidelines for Science and Health Education. 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.
Curriculum references
Scottish 5-14 Guidelines
Health Education - Taking responsibility for health
Strand - Physical health
- Level A - show an awareness of ways of keeping healthy
- Level B - show their knowledge and understanding of what individuals need to do to be healthy
Environmental Studies - Society, Science and Technology
Knowledge and understanding - living things and the processes of life
Strand - Variety and characteristic features
- Level A - sort living things into broad groups according to easily observable characteristics
- Level B - give some of the more obvious distinguishing features of the major invertebrate groups
Strand - The processes of life
- Level A - Name and identify the main external parts of the bodies of humans and other animals
- Level B - Recognise stages in the life cycles of familiar plants and animals
Strand - Interaction of living things with their environment
- Level A - Recognise and name some common plants and animals found in the local environment
- Level B - Give examples of feeding relationships found in the local environment.
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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