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Science 3b Helping Plants Grow Well

What do we get from plants?

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What do we get from plants - Intro

In this unit children learn about what plants need to grow well and why it is important that they do.

Lessons are taken from QCA Primary Scheme of Work Unit 3b Helping plants grow well.

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 plants can provide food for us and some plants are grown for this.

WILF / Student Outcomes.

  • Demonstrate they understand the importance of plants growing well eg by saying that plants provide food

Suggested activity;

  1. The first Video (above) uses some of the video from the introductory video to ask why we need to grow plants well and aims to cover the QCA suggestion - "Visit an allotment, market garden or large greengrocer to see the range of plants that are grown for food or show a video/series of pictures illustrating plants being grown for food."

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    Main Video - play intro above first

  2. Main video - play intro above first.

  3. This is then followed by a video showing how some of the food shown comes from plants and explains how we depend on plants for our food so it is important that plants grow well so that we have enough food.

  4. Discuss what children have seen and ask them to make a poster illustrating why we need plants to grow well.?

 

 

 

 

 

National Curriculum Reference

Knowledge, skills and understanding:

Sc2 Life processes and living things.

Source: QCA Statutory content

Life processes

  • To make links between life processes in familiar animals and plants and the environments in which they are found..

Green plants

Growth and nutrition

  • The effect of light, air, water and temperature on plant growth.

  • The role of the leaf in producing new material for growth.

  • That the root anchors the plant, and that water and minerals are taken in through the root and transported through the stem to other parts of the plant

Feeding relationships

  • That the root anchors the plant, and that water and minerals are taken in through the root and transported through the stem to other parts of the plant

Reproduction

  • About the parts of the flower [for example, stigma, stamen, petal, sepal] and their role in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation, seed dispersal and germination.

Breadth of Study

Source: QCA Web site

KS 2

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 appropriate scientific language and terms, including SI units of measurement [for example, metre, newton] , to communicate ideas and explain the behaviour of 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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