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Hello scientists.

My name is Mr. Wilshire, and in this lesson we are going to be looking at body parts on the outside.

Our outcome for this lesson is to name different parts on the outside of the human body and talk about the kind of jobs that they do.

Hmm.

Body parts on the outside of the human body.

I wonder what kind of body parts we could be looking at here.

Oh, your nose is on the outside of your body, isn't it? And oh, so is your mouth here too? And, oh, there's fingers as well, isn't there? Hmm.

Let's find out a bit more.

There are some key words to think about as we go through our lesson.

Now I'm going to say them and I'd like you to repeat them after me.

The first word, human body.

Very good.

Well done.

The next word is identify.

Great.

Next up, name and now, draw.

Finally, we have label.

Excellent job everybody.

So the key words are human body, identify, name, draw, and label.

I wonder if you know what some of these words mean already.

Maybe you've heard them before in a previous lesson, or maybe you knew them before that.

Well, if there are some words here that you are not too sure about, that's okay, because as we go through our lesson, the meaning behind them all should become clear.

If you'd like to, you can pause a video now and have a little look through and maybe think about any of the ones that you're not too sure about and have a little guess as to what they mean.

Pause a video now and continue when you've done that.

Okay, let's jump into the first part of our lesson.

This part is called body parts on the outside.

Now, just because we're talking about body parts on the outside, it doesn't mean that we're talking about things that are outdoors.

No.

We are talking about body parts that we can see.

The children here are finding out all about the human body, just like you.

Maybe you've been doing this as well.

There's Laura and Andeep there.

Hello, you two.

Let's have a little look at what you've been discovering.

Laura says, "I think the human body is made up of lots of different parts." Hmm.

I think she could be right there.

There are lots of different parts that make up a body aren't there? Andeep says, "I think it's called the body because it is one big body part." Oh, I see what he means.

There's no gaps or anything is there? You are just one thing altogether.

There's no gaps or any spaces anywhere.

Who do you agree with here? Do you think that Laura is right and the body is made up of lots of different parts.

Or is Andeep right, and the body is just one thing? Hmm.

Use some of your scientific knowledge here to have a think and tell me who do you agree with? Pause a video here and discuss.

Restart when you've done that.

Now that you've had a good chance to discuss, let's think of who's correct.

Did you think that Laura was correct with the body being made up of lots of different parts or is Andeep correct and the body is just one big part? Hmm.

Let's find out.

I wonder if you were correct.

The human body is made up of lots of different parts.

There are three of them just there.

Can you identify these body parts? Pause the video and have a discussion.

Restart when you've done that.

As Laura says here, when we identify something, we can name it correctly.

So maybe you were correct with some of these.

There's an ear, a hand and a leg.

You have got these body parts as well, haven't you? So some of these body parts are on the outside of our bodies.

You can see there a picture of a family all huddled together.

It's a family of humans.

Do you know the names of any parts of your body that you can see? Hmm? Have a little think here and discuss.

What are the names of the parts of the body that you can see? Did you mention things like fingers or fingernails? What about noses? If I look down here with my eyes, I can see my nose.

I can also down below the camera, I can see my knees.

I wonder which body parts you came up with.

Let's pause and think.

True or false.

The human body is made up of lots of different parts.

The answer is true.

The human body is made up of lots of different parts.

Why do we think this? Is it because we can see lots of different parts like ears, legs, mouths, or toes? Or is it because humans are mammals? Pause the video here and discuss.

Restart when you've done that.

The answer here is because we can see lots of different parts of our bodies, just like the ears, legs, mouths, and toes.

I wonder if you can think of any others that you can see.

Maybe they're the ones that you've already mentioned.

Jacob is shocked to see an alien from the planet as Asteroak.

Oh, look, you can see an alien there.

He has lots of body parts as well, doesn't he? And he is just one body that is made up of lots of parts.

The alien says, "I am here to find out all about the animals known as humans.

Why do you all look so strange?" Oh, I dunno about you, but I think the alien looks quite strange.

Jacob says, "Yeah, we don't look strange.

Our bodies are just different to yours.

My friends and I can explain why." Can we explain why? Let's go through the next few slides and see if we can help.

So can we help Jacob answer the alien's questions? The alien says, "hat is the name of this body part? What does it do?" Well over to you.

Have a little look at that body part there.

What's the name of it? What does it do? Pause the video and discuss.

Restart when you've done that.

Well, I wonder what you've said.

Did you say that this was an eye? Jacob says this is an eye.

Humans have got two eyes.

They've got them in their head.

We use our eyes to see things.

Of course, yes, we need them to see things and they can all be different colours eyes, can't they? Have a little look around your classroom and who you are working with now, do they have the same colour eyes as someone else or maybe they've got different colour eyes.

Oh, here's another body part.

The alien says, "What is the name of this body part? Does it also help you to see?" I don't think the alien's got the right idea here.

What do you think? Pause the video and discuss.

Restart when you've done that.

Hopefully we can help the alien understand a bit better here.

This is hand, isn't it? Look, I've got one as well.

"This is a hand to take." Jacob says, it doesn't help us to see.

Different body parts at different jobs.

Hands help us pick things up or hold things.

Oh yes.

We can also feel things with our fingers.

We don't use them to see though.

The alien again, "Oh, I think I can identify these body parts.

They're at the end of the legs and they look a bit like a hand.

Are they called leg hands?" Oh, alien, you've got it wrong again.

How are we going to describe this one? I understand what he's saying because there are five parts connected to the bottom there of this leg hand.

Oh, it's not a leg hand is it? Can you discuss and help here so we can describe it to alien a bit better? Pause video and have a think.

Restart when you've done that.

So, did you ever think about these leg hands? Oh, they're not leg hands.

They're feet, aren't they? Well done everybody.

Jacob says, "These body parts here are at the end of the legs, but they're not called leg hands.

They are called feet.

They help us to stand up and to walk." Of course.

That's a really good explanation.

Well done Jacob.

"I've spotted a strange pointy bit in the middle of your arms. What is that called, and what job does it do?" There's a strange pointy bit.

Oh yes, look, I've got one too.

Have you got them as well? Maybe have a discussion here and think, what are they called and what do they do? Restart the video when you've done that, what did you say? Did you say that this was an elbow? "This helps us to bend and straighten our arms" says Jacob, we've got an elbow on each one of our arms. Excellent description.

Yes.

They're elbows, aren't they? It helps us to bend and move our arms around.

Well, I think we've satisfied the alien for now.

Hopefully we've been able to teach them enough about the different body parts so they can go away and have a think if they've got any more questions.

So who do you agree with here? Do you agree with Jun, who says we have different body parts and they all do the same job? Do you agree with Lucas who says, "My body is made up of one big part." Or do you agree with Izzy, "We've got different body parts and they do different jobs?" Hmm? Do you agree with all of them? Maybe you disagree with one of them.

Have a discussion here.

Restart when you've done that.

How did you get on? Who did you agree with? Well, we can agree with Izzy here.

We have different body parts and they do different jobs.

Of course, they're all different body parts, they all do different things, don't they? Our body is not made up of one big part and our body is not made up of lots of different parts that all do the same job.

Otherwise, well, we wouldn't get anywhere, would we? So here is your first task, you are going to need to play, Simon says and touch some different body parts.

Now if you'd like to, you can pause the video and you can do this in your classroom and with your friends.

Or if you'd like to, I'm going to say some Simon says activities for you to have a go.

So get ready.

Simon says, touch your head.

Your hand should be up here mow.

Simon says, touch your nose.

You'll put your finger on your nose.

Did you do that? Simon says, put your hand on your eyes.

Are you putting your hands on your eyes? Hopefully you are.

Put your hands on your elbows.

Oh, hang on.

I didn't say Simon says, did I? I wonder if you got caught out there when we were playing Simon says, well, you can continue in your classroom or at home.

Have a go playing Simon says.

Were you caught out or were you able to touch a body part every time Simon says what to do? Maybe there were some body parts we didn't include in that list.

Like you can see here touching a cheek instead.

I hope you enjoyed the game.

Let's move on now to the final parts of our lesson recording different body parts.

So when we need to record different body parts, we.

Oh no, look, the aliens here again.

Hmm, what does he want this time? "Thank you for all of your help.

I'll take this information back to the planet has Asteroak.

You have so many different body parts, how am I going to remember them all?" Oh, that's a good point.

There are lots of different body parts aren't there? We don't want him going back with information that he thinks he knows.

Jacob says, "Well, we can help you.

There are lots of different ways of recording this information." What different ways can we think of to record this information down? Let's find out.

How could Jacob record all of the different human body parts? Aisha says, "We can take some photographs." Sam says, "We can make a model." Alex says, "Can you think of any other ways?" Taking photographs would be a good idea, wouldn't it? We would then have to print them all out.

We don't know if the alien has access to a computer like we have.

So I dunno if we'd be able to email the alien any of the pictures that we take.

Sam says we can make a model, but I wonder if the model would break, especially if it's going on an alien spacecraft and shooting off into outer space.

I don't want it to fall over and for our models to get broken.

Hmm.

I wonder what you lot can think of.

Have a little think and a discussion about the way that we could record different human body parts.

I wonder what ideas you came up with.

Maybe it's one that we're going to use in the final task in our lesson today.

Let's find out more.

Well, the children decide to draw around Aisha, and then to add some labels to each of her body parts.

So they add labels for her head, her arm, her tummy, her leg and her foot.

Hmm.

That doesn't sound like a lot though, does it? What other labels could they add? Pause the video and have a think.

What have they missed out here? I wonder what you came up with.

Did you mention cheek or nose? What about your chin? What about your eyes? There are all sorts of different body parts aren't there? Here's the head, there's the arm, there's the tummy, there's the leg, and there's the foot.

Hmm.

Well, the children decide to add some more body parts to their drawing.

There's a body outline again, look, and they add some labels for Aisha's shoulder, her elbow, her wrist, and her knee and her ankle.

Oh, where should they put those labels then? Hmm? Have a little think, discuss, and restart the video when you've done that.

Well, I hope that you've been able to label some of those different parts.

That's certainly going to come in useful if you've ever got to help an alien find out about different body parts.

Here is the shoulder.

Were you correct in guessing where this was? Or maybe you knew that already? Next up is the elbow that's just down from your shoulder, isn't it? I even gave you a few clues earlier.

Here is a wrist, here is the knee and the ankle is below the knee but above the foot, isn't it? Did you manage to locate all of those? Maybe there's one or two words that you weren't too sure about that and you've not heard before.

Hopefully, you've got a good idea about them now.

Stop and think, which skills do we use to record different body parts? Do we count and research, measure and sort or draw and label.

Discuss these statements and restart when you've done that.

The answer here is draw and label.

So here is your final task.

You need to draw around a child and then add some labels for different body parts.

What does each body part do? Be very careful when you're drawing around somebody because you don't want to draw on them by accident.

Have a go labelling the different body parts with things that you know, and then maybe you could do a little bit of research, or some questioning of other people to find out any other body parts that you are not too aware of.

Best of luck with your task.

Get drawing and labelling scientists, I'll see you soon.

How did you get on? Hopefully, you've been able to draw around somebody and you've been able to label them.

If you weren't able to draw around someone, maybe you had to go doing an outline on a piece of paper instead.

Or here are some body parts that we thought top of, the foot, the ankle, the knee, the leg, the tummy, the arm, the elbow, the shoulder, the wrist and the head.

Those are different body parts that we came up with in our lesson, so hopefully you were able to remember all of those.

But I'm sure that some of your labelling, you might have some different ideas, of the different body parts as well.

Maybe you put some hair on the head of your model.

So let's think about what each body part does.

Jun says, "Wrists help your hands to move around and make it easier to reach things.

And then you can do things like writing and eating." Sofia says, "Knees help your legs to bend.

This helps humans to walk, run and play games like football." Did you say the same or something different? In your discussions, you could have come up with lots of different body parts, maybe as an extra challenge, you could have a go at writing down some sentences to describe each body part, and maybe you could draw them instead.

You could draw a picture of a body part doing its particular job.

However you decided to complete that task, I hope that you were able to label a name, a few of the body parts that you know.

So let's summarise our lesson.

The human body is made up of lots of different parts.

Different body parts do different jobs.

Body parts can be recorded using drawing and labelling skills.

There you can see a picture of two children walking.

I wonder what body parts you can see in that picture there.

Well, hopefully you've had a good chance to investigate body parts.

Maybe you've learned something new, or maybe you've been able to show off some knowledge that you already had.

Now that you know lots about body parts, you are able to help.

If an alien were ever to land nearby and ask you some questions, be very careful though, and make sure that they're friendly.

I'll be Mr. Wilshire, and I'm going to wave with my hand rotating my wrist.

Bye bye.

See you soon.