Human Development Knowledge Organiser

Year 5 ScienceAnimals Including Humans1 page

About this worksheet

Everything on this Year 5 knowledge organiser fits on one page. A strip across the top shows six life stages with age ranges, from a foetus in the womb to an older adult aged 65 and over. Below it, a vocabulary table defines gestation, infancy, puberty, hormones, adolescence and old age. A facts panel covers growth rates, changes during puberty and changes in old age. Five key questions at the bottom give pupils something to revise against, but there is no answer key. It supports the England National Curriculum objective on how humans develop to old age.

Curriculum objectives covered

Animals, including humans

โ€œDescribe the changes as humans develop to old age.โ€

The whole page describes the changes from foetus to old age, and key questions 1, 4 and 5 check that pupils can describe them.

What's inside this worksheet

The Human Life Cycle

Six pictures joined by arrows: foetus, infant (0 to 2 years), child (3 to 10 years), adolescent (10 to 18 years), adult (18 to 65 years) and older adult (65+ years), each with a short note.

Key Vocabulary

Six terms with meanings, including gestation as around 40 weeks in humans.

Essential Facts & Big Ideas

Three panels on growth rates, changes during puberty and changes in old age, such as greying hair and lower bone density.

Key Questions to Master

Five questions, from naming the six stages in order to what happens to bones, muscles and skin in old age.

How teachers use it

Baby photos

Ask pupils to bring in a baby photo and line the photos up under the first stages of the strip.

Fold and quiz

Pupils fold the page so only the five key questions show and quiz a partner.

Before RSE

Use the puberty panel as a factual starting point before your relationships and sex education lessons.

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