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Year 6

Evidence about healthy lifestyle: presentation (non-statutory)

I can communicate my findings from a range of scientific reports about healthy and unhealthy lifestyles.

New
New
Year 6

Evidence about healthy lifestyle: presentation (non-statutory)

I can communicate my findings from a range of scientific reports about healthy and unhealthy lifestyles.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Scientists collect evidence from research that helps us to make informed choices about healthy lifestyles.
  2. It is important to examine information from a range of reliable sources.
  3. Findings can be presented in a range of ways including oral and written forms.
  4. Information for the general public should be communicated in a clear and accessible way.

Keywords

  • Lifestyle - A person’s lifestyle is the way they choose to live.

  • Research - To research something is to find out about it or investigate it carefully.

  • Evidence - Evidence is information which helps us to prove that something is true or not true.

  • Secondary source - Secondary sources are texts, images or objects created using information gathered by others.

  • Communicate - To communicate is to share or exchange information or ideas.

Common misconception

Pupils may think that scientific information communicated with the public should be presented in a complicated and ‘wordy’ way to make it more seem more intelligent or ‘official’.

Explain that information intended to help people make healthy lifestyle choices is best presented in a way that will allow as many people as possible to engage with it, so that they can make informed choices.

Encourage pupils to think about the health information they have seen and whether or not they felt it was useful in helping them to make healthy choices. They could think about whether the information was easy to understand, whether it was interesting and whether it was relevant to them.
Teacher tip

Equipment

None required.

Content guidance

  • Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Supervision

Adult supervision recommended

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

Lesson video

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6 Questions

Q1.
What does it mean to communicate something?
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to move something from one place to another
to exclude something
to have something in common
Correct answer: to share or exchange information
Q2.
Someone’s lifestyle is …
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the fashion choices they make.
Correct answer: the way they choose to live.
the way they style their hair.
Q3.
Scientists collect evidence from that helps us to make informed choices about healthy lifestyles.
Correct Answer: research, enquiries, investigations, secondary research
Q4.
A source is a source created using information gathered by others, such as a newspaper article, podcast or non-fiction book.
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Correct Answer: secondary
Q5.
True or false? Looking at who wrote a source of information is one way we can determine how reliable the source is.
Correct answer: true
false
Q6.
We can use evidence to make _________ about the impact of different things on our physical and mental health.
Correct answer: conclusions
equipment
methods

6 Questions

Q1.
Laura has carried out some research about a healthy, balanced diet. Which of these would not be a good way to communicate her findings?
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a podcast where she explains what she found out
Correct answer: photographs of the nutritional information of different foods
a booklet with photographs and information
a magazine article with easy-to-read paragraphs
Q2.
Why should information intended to help people make healthy choices be presented in a clear and accessible way?
Correct answer: because we want as many people as possible to understand it
because we want very few people to understand it
because we want to show how hard we have worked
Q3.
is information which helps us to prove that something is true or not true.
Correct Answer: Evidence, data
Q4.
When we are carrying out research, it is important to examine information from a range of __________ sources.
questionable
complex
biased
Correct answer: reliable
Q5.
How do scientists gather evidence to help us make informed choices about healthy lifestyles?
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Correct answer: carrying out enquiries and research
analysing social media posts
asking their friends and family
making their best estimates
Q6.
Findings can be presented in a range of ways including verbal and forms.
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Correct Answer: written, text

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