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Yr 1-2 Are plants alive?
Entry Point - Are plants alive?
1 Are plants alive?
2. How do plants grow?
How do plants grow?
How do plants grow?
Todays learning: (WALT)
Science- identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees
- observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants.
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Understand where food comes from
Lesson Activities / Tasks
Resources:
VIDEO: How do plants grow?:
Pupils Workbook - 'Plants - what use are they?'
Lesson Activities
- Watch video - dialog below
- Class activity each pupils plants own pot of microgreens
- See http://www.grow2educate.co.uk/crops/microgreens/ for details of seeds etc
- Salad bowls can be found online like here - http://www.gmpackaging.co.uk/Cake-container-uk
- Start a diary of 'My Seeds' record what happens to the seeds as they emerge do this with drawings which pupils then label.
- Complete relevant section of pupil work book
Plenary:
- Do quiz for first section answers…
Video Dialog
- Can you name any plants? What about these?
- Can you name any parts of plants?
- Perhaps if you grow and care for some plants you will be able to name some plant parts and describe the basic structure of a plant?
- So how do we grow a plant?
- We can grow plants from seeds
- If you put a seed in a pot of soil or compost not too deep it should grow.
- Your teacher will help you do this - the seeds you could use are....
- Pea, Beetroot, Chard, Carrots
- You can eat some of the seedlings - they are eaten in some top restaurants as 'micro-greens'
- You could also carefully plant some of the seedlings into bigger containers or plant pots
- Then you can watch them grow and follow their life cycle
- Peas will flower and produce seeds
- The carrots and beetroot will produce food you might know!
Resources:
- Video: Are plants alive?
- Pupil Work book: Plants - What use are they?
Outcomes: (WILF)
- Describe what they think will happen to the seeds they plant
- Keep a diary of their seeds and with pictures labeling the different parts as they emerge.
Teaching notes:
Pupils can keep a seed diary.
Last modified: Sunday, 2 March 2014, 7:19 PM