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Year 3: Animals, including humans

This list consists of lesson plans, activities and video clips to support the teaching of Animals, including humans at Year Three. It contains tips on using the resources, suggestions for further use and background subject knowledge. Possible misconceptions are highlighted so that teachers may plan lessons to facilitate correct conceptual understanding. Designed to support the new curriculum programme of study it aims to cover many of the requirements for knowledge and understanding and working scientifically. The statutory requirements are that children are taught to:

• identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat

• identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement.

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We all have skeletons inside our bodies. The function of which is to protect organs like the heart, lungs and brain and to provide support, so we stand up instead of wobbling like jelly. Because our muscles connect to our bones, our skeletons also help us to walk, run, lift and play sport. Find out where children think bones are by asking them to draw bones inside an outline of the body before looking at a model skeleton and identifying the main bones. This worksheet of a dancing skeleton can be used to label the main bones, though it will need to be adapted for different levels of learner. Bone Bingo would make a useful plenary or revision session when learning about the structure and function of the skeleton.

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Develop thinking skills by observing and comparing the movement of vertebrate and invertebrate animals which live in a marine environment. Children could be given cards with the animals on and predict how they move by looking at their anatomy. The PowerPoint then goes on to describe how the different animals move using various body parts. Children could be asked to sort animals into those with an internal skeleton and those with an external skeleton or no skeleton. Challenge children to find other animals which could belong to these groups.  Children could act out how some of the animals move and others guess which animal they are showing. Activity ideas and worksheets are found under the lesson Movement and the related PowerPoint may be found in here .

The Great British Space Dinner - Primary Resource

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Children love learning about space, so why not look at a healthy balanced diet for an astronaut? Or even design a lunch box? The Great British Space Dinner Challenge contains six lessons which help children find out more about life on board the International Space Station (ISS) and the importance of exercise and a balanced diet for astronauts whilst they are living there.

Children may believe that ‘food is energy’, rather than realising that it provides us with fuel. The fuel is then respired, using oxygen, to produce carbon dioxide and water with energy becoming available during the reaction.

Click here if you are interested in further activities which support Tim Peake’s Mission and the wider context of space.

Animals, Including Humans

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This resource provides a selection of lesson plans, worksheets and teachers notes relating to animals including humans at Year Three. They include activities in which children find out about food groups and healthy balanced diets and learn about the human digestive system and how food is transported around the body.

Lesson ideas are also provided for finding out about the structure and function of the skeleton, comparing skeletons, muscles and joints and investigating the effect of exercise on the body.

A good of way of showing that bones are living and growing is to carry out a survey on bone length across the school to see if our forearms grow as they get bigger. A modal or median value of each sample could be taken as an average. A variation could be to collect evidence by measuring different body parts to answer questions.

Ask children to sort the pictures of animal skeletons into different groups, and try to identify them. It is a great way of showing similarities and differences between animals

Making a moving joint  will help children understand the role bones and muscles have in movement.    This clip is a good way of showing muscles in action.   

When learning about balanced diets for humans why not also look at the diets of different animals and ask children to research the diet of 3 different animals, an omnivore, herbivore and carnivore.

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Explore the nutritional content of food and how humans obtain nutrition from the food they eat. They investigate the amount of sugar in different fizzy drinks and what affect this has on whether a can floats or sinks. They also find out about food choices in different parts of the world, looking at similarities and differences.

Building a Bionic Hand

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In this activity, pupils will build a bionic hand made out of cardboard, strings, straws and rubber bands. They will relate the bionic hand to their own hand to understand the function of the fingers and the importance of the thumb, to grab or hold objects with different shapes and forms. Pupils will also learn that it would not be possible to move the human hand if it was only composed of bones. The pupils will understand how bones, muscles, tendons and ligaments work, by comparing them with the materials used on the bionic hand to move the fingers.  

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Present children with a mystery to be solved when a skeleton is discovered during renovation work at a local site of historical interest. Children will need to collect data and make comparisons between the skeleton and people of various ages in their school.

Ask children to decide what data to collect, and then measure accurately, present data and to look for patterns. Using their findings they may then work at what age the individual was when they died. This activity is on pages 21 and 22 of the pdf. Children may believe that bones are dead material, as they are often associated with dead animals. It is important to point out that bones in living animals are composed of living cells. One way of helping them understand this is to talk about when a person breaks a bone it will mend itself in time. All children should know someone who has broken a bone at some point!

The Human Body Game

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This resource contains three lessons including one on the skeleton and muscles. An interactive simulation explores the skeletal-muscular system and through a series of separate activities children identify the key features of the skeleton and investigate their functions. Children design structures which provide support and compare them to different bones in the body. In addition, they create models of pairs of muscles and show how they work antagonistically to produce movement of the forearm round the elbow joint. Children can arrange the bones of the body to build a skeleton using the 'Build a Body' game.

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Year 3 Animals, including Humans: The Skeleton, Muscles and Movement

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Age range: 7-11

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Skeletons - Year 3

Year 3 science programme of study - Animals, including humans:

• identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement

This year 3 science teaching resource introduces pupils to skeletons and is an ideal learning tool to use in a lesson covering the above year 3 science curriculum objective.

This colourful and animated PowerPoint presentaion includes:

• Link to an introductory video
• A 3-D skeleton model teaching aid
• Identifying some human bones activity and two accompanying worksheets
• Identifying the main bones of the body and worksheet
• Functions of the skeleton
• Explanation of joints and ligaments (hinge joints and ball and socket joints)
• Which bones protect which organs?
• How to take care of bones
• Animal skeletons and an explanation of vertebrates and invertebrates
• Skeleton detective activity - match the skeleton to the animal and an accompanying worksheet
• Animal skeleton sorting activity and accompanying worksheet
• Skeleton quiz and accompanying worksheet
• Useful links
• Make your own skeleton cut out model

'Skeletons - Year 3' is fully editable so it can easily be adapted to suit the individual needs of each class you teach.

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Children must use their knowledge of the human skeleton in this hands-on activity. They are given parts of a skeleton to cut out and put together to make a complete skeleton. They then have to label the bones in the diagram they have made.

Answers are included to allow children to check their own work.

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Welcome to Hands-On Education, where we offer quick and informative activities for primary school teachers and home educators. Today, we are thrilled to present our My Skeleton Activities for year three, featuring engaging activities on vertebrates and invertebrates, labeling the skeleton, hand X-ray, spinal model, bone structure investigation, protecting organs, skeleton support investigation, body movement, lunch box, animals including humans, group materials, various everyday materials, upper key stage, national curriculum subjects, science curriculum, comparative and fair tests, and identifying differences.

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This session you will become an expert on bones, joints and skeletons, acquiring scientific vocabulary and understanding whilst playing games and building your very own dancing skeleton string puppet.

Science Objectives i) Identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement.

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• Build and apply a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users (a puppet with strings).

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• An old clean animal bone & plastic gloves for handling the bone safely
• A piece of string (about 3m) & masking tape
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• Several lumps of Plasticine or sticky tack
• 1m of strong thread & 8 split pins per skeleton
• 2 garden sticks per skeleton (40 -50cm is ideal)
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• Understand that not all animals have an internal skeleton and that the presence of this is an important feature in classifying them.
• Know that a skeleton is needed for support, protection and movement.
• Play a game that involves the classification of animals as vertebrates and Invertebrates.
• Play another game called 5 Lives that will increase children’s knowledge of skeletons and bones whilst having fun.
• Make a skeleton string puppet that has moving joints.
• Reinforce knowledge by naming parts and functions on the puppets.
• Puppeteer a skeleton dance.

Investigation - exploring/analysing secondary sources Create a skeleton string puppet that has moving joints.

Vocabulary Vertebrate, invertebrate, bone, skeleton, skull, ribcage, pelvis, femur

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A hiker discovered a wealthy traveler's remains on a skiing glacier in Switzerland. They turned out to be 400 years old.

• A hiker discovered the 400-year-old remains of a wealthy man on a glacier in the Swiss Alps.
• Melting ice revealed the mysterious man had traveled with many coins, weapons, and possibly mules.
• The discovery points to an ancient economy supported by dangerous routes through high mountain passes.

The Theodul Glacier was expanding when a mysterious man in thin leather shoes trekked across its surface about 400 years ago.

This field of ice high in the Alps, below the iconic and imposing Matterhorn, formed a treacherous pass between what is now Switzerland and Italy. It was the middle of the Little Ice Age, and more ice was forming along its edges every year.

That had totally changed by 1984. The glacier was retreating , and the leather-shoed man was slowly melting out into the sun when a hiker first stumbled upon his remains.

Slowly, as archaeologists returned to the site through the 1980s and early 90s, the melting glacier revealed a skull with auburn hair clinging to it, several knives, nearly 200 coins, jewelry, glass buttons, bits of silk clothing, a shaving razor, a dagger, a sword, and a pistol scattered across the area.

All these items dated to around 1600 AD. The remains of two mules were also discovered nearby, though it's unclear if they belonged to the man.

At first, archaeologists thought the well-armed man was a mercenary. Upon further inspection, though, that didn't make sense.

"They're not combat weapons. These are fencing weapons. These are ceremonial weapons that the rich had on them," said Pierre-Yves Nicod, a curator at the Valais History Museum in the Swiss Alps . Business Insider spoke with Nicod in French and translated his words into English.

"And then the clothes are not combat clothes. They are also the clothes of a wealthy person, of a gentleman," he added.

The man's bones show no signs of trauma, and clearly he wasn't robbed, so archaeologists believe he must have died by accident , perhaps by falling into a crevasse in the glacier or an unfortunate turn of bad weather.

What was a rich man doing up there on the snow and ice in the first place?

Clues point to an answer: This man may have been part of an ancient economy that spread across the peaks of the Alps . He's a snapshot archaeologists wouldn't have if the mountains weren't changing so drastically.

You see, the mysterious man, his belongings, and the mules were frozen deep in the ice for hundreds of years. Then humans started burning coal, oil, and gas for energy.

How the climate crisis reveals ancient artifacts

For about two centuries now, our use of fossil fuels has been releasing greenhouse gases into the air, mainly carbon dioxide and methane.

As a result, the atmosphere is holding in more heat from the sun, raising the planet's average temperature and causing glaciers like Theodul to melt away.

Receding ice across the planet has revealed mummified mammoths , Ice-Age squirrels, a 46,000-year-old roundworm that came back to life , and ancient human artifacts such as skis, arrows, and other tools.

The new scientific field of glacial archaeology thrives in the Alps. For about four decades, archaeologists have been trekking the glaciers of Switzerland and Italy, retrieving artifacts that are thawing into view.

The problem is that these artifacts aren't surfacing within ancient buried towns or temples.

"It's one of the difficulties of glacial archaeology that we find these objects in the ice, and therefore out of all archaeological context," Nicod said.

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In short, it's often hard to know what exactly you've found.

A clue in an old illustration

Though the wealthy traveler 's remains surfaced decades ago, archaeologists haven't really understood him until recently.

He wasn't a soldier-for-hire after all, a 2015 paper concluded. He carried a silver pendant engraved with a cross and anointed with wax, possibly from a religious candle.

Fragments of wool and some silk indicate the fine clothes he wore. His weapons were all manufactured in present-day Germany. His coins were mostly minted in northern Italy.

In a 2022 report, Nicod and his colleague Philippe Curdy point to an illustration from 1643 that shows a caravan of merchants ascending to an Alps mountain pass .

"In the background, there are the mountains and then a merchant with all these loads, who has his mules, who's climbing up to the peaks," Nicod says.

The man in the illustration is just like the Theodul traveler. In fact, Nicod added, "he has the same type of clothes with the same type of buttons and the same sword."

The wealthy man in the glacier was a merchant , they believe, representing a remarkable economy that has long persisted between towns separated by 15,000-foot peaks. Throughout the Alps, from ancient times into the modern period, people have braved frozen mountain passes to hawk their wares.

"We see that the passage over the glacier was used all the time — Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman time," local archaeologist Romain Andenmatten told Business Insider. "The simplest way is to go over the glacier."

The Theodul Pass was a common route from the Valais region of modern-day Switzerland to the Aosta Valley of modern-day Italy.

Today, it's a ski slope and occasional archaeological site.

Not everything in the ice is archaeology

Carefully cushioned in custom-cut foam inside a plastic storage bin, the ancient traveler's belongings emit the faint smell of rot, of decaying wood and leather.

Organic materials like this must be retrieved quickly once they're exposed on the ice. Laying in a melty puddle under direct sunlight, they can decompose in just a couple years. Even dried out and stored carefully indoors, the putrid scent gives away their age.

"It smells like the past," Nicod said. "This isn't too bad."

The melting ice yields fouler-smelling findings, like the belongings of a couple who disappeared in the 1940s, Nicod said. Glacier hikers have discovered the bodies of people who went missing still more recently. Sometimes the findings themselves are dangerous. Nicod says people have found undetonated bombs on the ice.

It's not just the Alps. Across the planet, the shifting environments caused by climate change are revealing other terrors that were once buried deep.

Thawing permafrost in Russia released anthrax from a once-frozen reindeer carcass, causing a deadly outbreak in 2016.

Droughts are withering rivers and reservoirs so much that their receding banks have revealed shipwrecks, human remains, Spain's very own Stonehenge , and a couple of once-submerged villages.

Erosion from rising sea levels has exposed Indigenous burial grounds in Florida.

Searching for the next Iceman

Some tragedies melting out of the ice are such ancient history that they only evoke wonder — such as Ötzi the Iceman , one of the most significant archaeological finds ever.

Like the wealthy traveler of Theodul, Ötzi was discovered by a hiker. He had surfaced on a melting glacier on the other side of the Alps, on the border of Italy and Austria, in 1991.

The ice had kept Ötzi mummified since his death in about 3300 BC, making him older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids. His impeccably preserved body offers an otherwise impossible glimpse into Neolithic life — everything from his male-pattern balding to his hand-poke tattoos and meaty diet .

Andenmatten is hopeful that the glaciers dwindling away on the Swiss side of the Alps will yield the next Ötzi.

Archaeologists have a unique window into the sheer breadth of humans' footprints on our environments — both the wonder and the terror of our capabilities over the ages. As human-caused climate change devastates mountain glaciers , archaeologists discover more high-altitude feats of ancient human history.

Andenmatten and his colleagues go searching for artifacts in August and September, when the glacier is meltiest and most likely to reveal new objects. But as temperatures rise, the season of ice melt expands and so does their archaeological season.

"The good time slot is every year bigger," Andenmatten said.

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