Knowledge and Understanding

Pupils understand that:

• composed self portraits using cut and stick

• with a partner looked at their portraits for similarities and differences

Skills

Carrying out Task

Pupils:

• use all senses to observe (level A)

• use all senses to identify (level A)

Developing Informed Attitudes

• respect and care for self and others

VOCABULARY

SIMILAR, DIFFERENT, APPEARANCE, PORTRAIT

Planned Activities
 

Teacher’s Note

Identikits:  alternative to drawing activity

The following lesson was devised as part of the science co-ordinators’ collaborative teaching project and provided a fun alternative to the drawing activity outlined in the Renfrewshire Science Programme.

• Pupils observed themselves in mirrors

• Pupils were encouraged to observe their face carefully and select appropriate eye colour (with or without glasses), hair colour and hair length from identikit parts

• Pupils were not given a choice of mouth, nose or ears but had to think about how many of each face part they needed and where it had to be stuck onto the face

• Pupils were encouraged to stick the hair on last so they were able to see that they had all other face parts before the hair was stuck on (also prevented ears being stuck on top of hair!)

Although it was possible to print out different hair colours, this was impractical due to the large numbers of hair needed for the lesson.  Therefore outlines of different hair lengths were printed out and some older children in the school coloured in a range of hair colours prior to the lesson taking place (colours used were black, brown, blonde and red).