Lesson One – Babies and Toddlers

This science teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify, describe and record some of the similarities and differences between different ages when changing from a baby to a toddler.

The class can select and list some of the special things that babies and toddlers are able to do at each of their different ages in life with and without support of their parents.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify, describe and record some of the similarities and differences between different ages when changing from a baby to a toddler

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of cards to identify and record some of the special ways that parents can care for a baby and a template to select and record actions that could be completed when they were a baby, a toddler and today at different ages.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the similarities and differences between different ages of children.

This lesson is part of a science scheme of work to get the children to identify and describe how humans change as they grow from children into adults including changes to appearance, height and abilities in performing different activities. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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