How Plants Grow
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This pack includes a complete set of ready-to-teach lessons that together form a coherent scheme of work, written and created by experienced primary teachers.
Each of the lessons within the pack contains:
- An easy-to-follow lesson plan (including plenary and assessment questions)
- An engaging slideshow for the teaching input
- A main activity with three-way differentiation to support adaptive teaching
- An alternative activity for flexibility and choice
- An overview (medium-term plan) showing the scheme contents at a glance
- An assessment grid to track learning and progress
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Curriculum Coverage
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Activities are designed to spark curiosity, encourage discussion and make learning memorable.
This Plants Year 3 planning pack will help your KS2 Science class learn all about the fascinating world of plants! Your class will identify the functions of the different parts of a plant, find out what plants need in order to grow well and explore how plants reproduce, all through engaging lessons and fun activities!
This Year 3 plants planning contains everything you need to deliver these lessons, including six lesson plans, slides for each lesson, activity ideas, set of differentiated worksheets and other printable resources - plenty to get your children enthusiastic about plants and transformed into green-fingered gardeners!
You may also like our Plants Topic Bundle – four ready-to-teach schemes of work covering Science, Art, DT and Geography.
Lesson 1
Exploring Roots
What are the parts of a flowering plant? What do they do? The first lesson in this series starts by briefly recapping the main parts of a plant before looking in more detail at the roots of plants.
Your class will explore what roots are for before planting some beans so they can explore root growth for themselves.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Growing beans sheet
Lesson 2
Water Transportation
This fun lesson explores how water is transported in plants. Your class will learn about how the roots of a plant absorb water from the soil and how water travels up the stem to the different parts of the plant.
They can explore this for themselves through various activities involving celery and kitchen roll!
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Capillary action sheet
Lesson 3
Leaf Function
Now that your class know that plants need water to survive, they will look at how plants make their own food through the process of photosynthesis.
They will also investigate the other things plants need to grow and survive, and explore how seeds can grow without access to light and air.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Life cycle flow chart sheet
Lesson 4
Flower Power
This lesson explores the function of the flower in flowering plants and looks at the role flowers play in the reproduction of plants.
Your class will explore the processes of seed dispersal, pollination and fertilisation.
There is also the chance to dissect some flowers for themselves to identify how they are structured.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Dissecting flowers sheet
Lesson 5
Seed Dispersal
This lesson takes a closer look at seed dispersal and the methods different plants use to give their seeds the best chance of germination from water transportation to explosion!
Your class can then identify the methods used by a variety of plants and identify plants in their local environment that use these different methods of seed dispersal.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Fruit and seeds sheet
- Seed dispersal facts sheet
Lesson 6
Seed Study
The final lesson in this series explores seeds in further detail. Your class will look at the structure of seeds and the store of food inside a seed to help the seed grow into a plant.
They will also explore the importance of seeds as a food source and have the chance to do some seed taste testing!
The scheme of work is then concluded with a fun End of Unit Quiz to assess what your Year 3 class have learnt about how plants grow.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Birs seed cakes sheet
- End of unit quiz
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