Higher:
Explain the significance of vaccinations.
Middle:
Describe Jenner's method.
Lower:
Outline the story of Edward Jenner.
Ask the big question - Why do doctors sometimes give you injections, even when you are not sick?
Presentation - starter slide.
Ask children if they have ever had an injection / vaccination and what for. Have any children travelled abroad and had to take medicine?
Today's Song - Can children create actions for today's song?
Talk Partners - Stop children to discuss what they've learnt so far about Jenner and vaccinations
Literacy - Towards end of lesson, write 5 sentences about what Jenner discovered.
Answer questions and take part in activities during the presentation.
Stop the presentation at the relevant slides: Talk Partners; AfLs; Songs.
Take part in the Choral Response Questions activity (see Assessment section) after the Keywords/Rocket Words slide.
Presentation
Zoologist Mike Linley explains how certain injections can save you from snake bites.
Presentation - expert film.
The Handout has a storyboard of Edward Jenner's discovering vacinations. The children need to look at the five panels and explain why each part is important to the discovery.
panel 1 - Jenner makes an observation and decides to investigate if cowpox can prevent smallpox.
panel 2 - Jenner takes a sample to study from people who have never caught cowpox.
panel 3 - Jenner prepares his experiment, he needed a healthy person.
panel 4 - Jenner tests his theory
panel 5 - now more confident, Jenner tests his theory again to make sure the result is the same.
Handout
Quiz With their talk partners, the children are to go through the quiz at the end of the presentation and answer the questions. Formative Assessment Forms Students are to complete these forms where present. Assessment Trays Ask the children to place their Handouts, notebooks, Formative Assessment Forms, Investigation Sheets, into either the Discover tray or Explorer tray * Explain that the green tray means that the learner has understood the lesson well, and that the red tray means that the learner needs more time to practise. *use whichever colours of tray you have in stock, or prefer to use for this. Children to take interactive Assessment Quiz to test lesson comprehension.
Why it is important to be vaccinated to visit certain countries?
Why is it important that you and your friends are all vaccinated?
Teacher: Who found the vaccination for smallpox?
Answer: “EDWARD JENNER!”
The Science Behind the Science!
Vaccinations work by adding a small amount of an inactive virus into a host, which can be a human or another type of animal. For example, livestock is often vaccinated to protect the health of the herd.
When a small amount of virus is introduces, a hosts immune system creates antibodies which destroy the virus. It then keeps a 'memory' of these antibodies, so if the virus enters the body again (this time as an active version), it can quickly make lots of antibodies to destroy the virus and prevent the host getting ill from it.
Describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food and hygiene.
Biological systems - Body systems and cells - I know the symptoms of some common diseases caused by germs. I can explain how they are spread and discuss how some methods of preventing and treating disease benefit society. SCN 1-13a
The study of the characteristics, systems, and behaviours of humans and other animals, and of plants; the interactions and relationships between and among them, and with the environment.
Using observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions
Using observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions
Grade 3 - Our Body
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