The Human Body
The wickED topics are integrated units with activities from several curriculum areas and involve a range of thinking and learning skills. The outline below is an outline of where the activities for the current topic fit in the curriculum.
Health and Physical Education
Strand A: Personal Health and Physical Development
Level 2
1. Personal Growth and Development
Students will describe their stages of growth and their development needs and demonstrate increasing responsibility for self-care, for example, in relation to their exercise needs, learning needs, nutritional needs, and social needs, the preparation of snack food, appropriate clothing, digestion, expressing their feelings, hygiene, personal medication, and relaxation.
2. Regular Physical Activity
Students will experience and describe the benefits of regular physical activity, for example, in relation to appropriate daily exercise programmes, a positive body image, relaxation, feeling good, identified food needs, having fun, and goal setting.
Level 3
1. Personal Growth and Development
Students will identify factors that affect personal, physical, social, and emotional growth and develop skills to manage changes, for example, such factors as food and nutrition, puberty, illness, injury, posture, physical activity, disappointment, loss, and individual differences and skills for making friends, increasing independence, and achieving success.
2. Regular Physical Activity
Students will maintain regular, enjoyable physical activity with an increasing understanding of its role in self-care and well-being, for example, by taking daily exercise, learning how fitness and health are related, setting goals, meeting their own nutritional needs, planning for regular physical activity, relaxation, and recreation, and developing a positive body image and positive attitudes towards physical activity.
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Science
Strand: Making Sense of the Living World
Level: 1
Achievement objective: Students can observe and identify parts of common animals and plants, e.g., major parts of the human body;
Level; 2
Achievement objective: Students can investigate and understand the general functions of the main parts of animals and plants, e.g., skins, legs, ears, eyes, stomach, brain, heart, bones;
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English
Strand: Transactional Writing
Level: 2-3
Achievement objective: Using static and moving images, students should combine verbal and visual features to communicate information, ideas, or narrative through layout, drama, video, computer, or other technologies and media.
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