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Science Unit 1B Growing Plants

What do you know about plants?

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What do you know about plants?

This unit introduces learners to the idea of plants as living things which grow and change. Learners should become aware of similarities and differences in plants.

Lesson from QCA Primary Scheme of Work Unit 1b - Growing Plants.

Teachers Guide / Ideas

These are my suggestions or ideas based on how I would teach this lesson and is based around the provided videos, of course feel free just to use the video and your own lesson plan.... see further Teaching Notes

See National Curriculum Reference + Curriculum Opportunities

 

WALT / Today's learning / Pupils should learn

  • That there are different plants in the immediate environment.

  • To treat growing plants with care.

  • To make careful observations of one or two plants and of where they grow and to communicate these.

  • That plants have leaves, stems and flowers.

WILF / Student Outcomes.

  • Name some plants found around the school e.g. daisy, dandelion and name groups of plants e.g. trees, grass, pondweed, moss

  • Describe orally, by drawing or in simple writing, what the plants are like e.g. trees are tall and have thick branches, dandelions have yellow flowers and green leaves and where they can grow e.g. there is grass in the path cracks

  • Recognise when plants should not be pulled up.

  1. Play the video above to introduce the topic.

  2. Then follow suggestions from QCA

  3. Take children for a walk around the school and challenge them to find (but not pick or pull up) plants growing in as many different places as they can. Ask them for their ideas about why plants grow where they do. Have a prepared, large, outline plan of the area visited and ask children to stick labels or pictures of plants where they were found e.g. on the path, in the pond, in the field. With the children, draw some of the plants showing what they are like and where they grow and naming their main parts. Ask children to suggest why it is important not to pull up growing plants.

 

 

National Curriculum Reference

Teachers Notes:

About this lesson and the videos...

  • This lesson provides a video to introduce the topic and shows some common food crop plants being grown and prepared to eat.

  • The video is not intended as a substitute for the suggested activities of getting the children out of the classroom to observe plants in the local environment, but as an introduction to this activity.

 

Knowledge, skills and understanding:

Sc2 Life processes and living things.

Source: QCA Statutory content

Life processes
  • To relate life processes to animals and plants found in the local environment.
Green plants

  • To recognise that plants need light and water to grow

  • To recognise and name the leaf, flower, stem and root of flowering plants

  • That seeds grow into flowering plants.

  • Breadth of Study

    Source: QCA Web site

    During the key stage, pupils should be taught the Knowledge, skills and understanding through:

    1. A range of domestic and environmental contexts that are familiar and of interest to them.

    2. Looking at the part science has played in the development of many useful things.

    3. Using a range of sources of information and data, including ICT-based sources.

    4. Using first-hand and secondary data to carry out a range of scientific investigations, including complete investigations.

    During the key stage, pupils should be taught to:

    Communication
    • Use simple scientific language to communicate ideas and to name and describe living things, materials, phenomena and processes
    Health and safety

    • Recognise that there are hazards in living things, materials and physical processes, and assess risks and take action to reduce risks to themselves and others.

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