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  • Yr 1-2 Are plants alive?

    Plants What use are they?

    Summary of theme

    Theme is introduced with entry point video which is designed to capture pupils interest and get them to think about plants and why they might be important in their lives.

    Pupils then grow their own seeds to help them learn the parts of plants and what they need to survive.

    Lessons:

    1. Are plants alive?
    2. How do plants grow?
    3. What do we use plants for?
    4. What are the parts of plants?
    5. Harvesting our plants.

    • Documents for Theme

    • Theme Lesson Burr

      Lessons Burr

    • Planning

      Scheme of work

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      Or download as Word document to adapt for your own use.

    • Scheme of Work as pdf URL

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    • Pupil WorkbookPupil Work Book

      The pupil workbook is designend to be used with each lesson and has various activites linked to each video eg CLOZE exercises, Maths, reading and writing. These can also be extended further as you require.

      The workbook can be download as pdf or Word documents

      The workbook can be printed as is or can be editted to your requirements as Word document (beware it is a complicated document and will 'break' quite easily during editing!)

    • Plants - What use are they? - Pupils Work Book URL

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  • Entry Point - Are plants alive?

    Introduction to theme - this may not be a full lesson / activity but can be combined with lesson 1

  • 1 Are plants alive?

    Video recaps things animals that shows they are alive then ask do plants do any of these too?

    This helps open a discussion on the difference between living & non-living and that plants do the same things are animals even though it may not be easy to notice them moving for example

    • Documents for lesson

      Scheme of Work, Lesson Plans etc

    • Are plants alive? Page

      PlanningWeb Based Lesson Plan

    • Resources for this lesson

    • Video - Are plants alive? URL

      Video Player

      Video to watch - opens in pop up window and can be played full screen

    • Animals are alive because they.... Quiz

      What have you learntToday's Learning - checking with WILF

      Questions from pupil workbook so you can go through answer with them once they have completed first section. Pupils could also swap workbooks and mark their own work

      Marking pupils work with them is a very beneficial exercise in terms of Assessment for learning - the earlier they learn to do this the better. Older and adult learners when asked to do this feel that the teacher is cheating and not doing their job when they ask learners to mark their own work!

  • 2. How do plants grow?

    Video looks at different plants some pupils will know some they won't, also ask if they can name any parts of plants.

    Video then shows how to plant some seeds to grow as microgreens and also to use to grow to full size plants