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Female lifespan
Drag the stages of life into the correct boxes. When you are ready, use the 'Mark' button to see if you're right.
Take note that the bar at the top shows the stages of life to scale. The boxes at the bottom are colour-coded to match these stages but are spaced evenly. The biggest physical changes in a lifetime happen during childhood.
Discussion points
- Look at the timeline at the bottom. Notice that the most dramatic changes happen in a relatively short amount of time during childhood.
- What are the changes that happen from stage to stage?
- Who do you know who is at each stage of life?
- What sorts of things do you think you can do at each stage of life?
- What do you enjoy about the stage you are at now?
- What do you look forward to about the next stages of life?
Teaching tips:
Use as part of getting children to recognise growth and change in humans.
Let children discuss, notice and ask questions about what they see. Talk about which stage they are currently at and what stages came before and will come after.
This could lead onto a discussion about what humans need in order to grow, survive and stay healthy or move onto looking at lifecycles of a butterfly, chicken or frog to see how they develop.
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