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TOPIC: LIVING THINGS – PLANTS (SCIENCE)
Cross Curricular Links:
Stepping Stones K and U of W
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Explore objects
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Talk about what is seen and what is happening
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Notice and comment on patters
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Show awareness of change
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Describe simple features of objects and events
ELG
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Investigate objects and materials by using all of their senses.
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Find out about and identify some features of living things, objects
and the events they observe.
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Look closely at similarities/differences/patterns and change.
Lancashire Foundation Stage Scheme of Work:
Changes/Growth
Amazing world
Colour My World
LEARNING EXPERIENCES /ACTIVITIES:
Reception
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Find unusual places plants grow (walls / pavements)
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Walk around school – investigate plant
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Explore seeds/fruits. Match fruit to seeds
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What do plants need to grow?
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Putting shapes on grass, leave for a couple of days.
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Story of Enormous Turnip
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Investigation table/box – magnifying glasses, viewers
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Grow vegetables that they can eat e.g. cress
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Herbs – smell/feel
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Spouting Root Ginger/Garlic/Nutmeg
Objectives: Year 1 / 2
Scientific Enquiry
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1. to collect evidence by making observations and measurements when
trying to answer a question
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2a. Ask questions and decide how they might find the answers to them.
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2b. Use first hand experience and simple information sources to answer
questions
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2g. communicate what happened in a variety of ways including ICT
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2h. make simple comparisons and identify simple patterns or associations
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2i. compare what happened with what they expected to happen and try to
explain it drawing on their knowledge and understanding
Life and Living Processes
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1a. the differences between things that are living and things never been alive
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1c. relate processes to animals and plants found in the local environment
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3a. to recognise that plants need light and water to grow
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3b. to recognise and name the leaf, flower, stem and root of flowering plants
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3c. that seeds grow into flowering plants
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4a. recognise similarities and differences between themselves and others
and to treat with sensitivity
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4b. group living things according to observable similarities and differences
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5a. Find out about the different kind of plants and animals in local
environment
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5b. identify similarities and differences between local environments
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5c. care for the environment
Link to Small Schools Scheme of Work
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Small schools science scheme
Year1/2
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Plant cress/mustard/beans, bulbs.
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Identify trees – sort leaves (Collect/ photograph)Investigate ‘Do plants need
light’
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Plant and grow potatoes in a bucket
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Talk about what happens?
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Investigate/ Explore: plants, roots, wilted plants. Look at unusual plants/fruit
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Sprouting potato in a dark box.
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Different packets of seeds/digital camera.
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Selection of Beans
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Looking at logs – annual rings
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Research what plants are used for besides food – (nettle/dock leaves)
Assessment
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Label or name simple parts of a plant. Sequence lifecycle of a plant/tree
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Discuss what a plant needs to grow healthily. Recognise seasonal changes. Know that a plant is alive
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Identify ways in which we can care for the environment
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Art –
Vincent V Gogh ‘Sunflowers’. Paintings of Fruit &
Veg. Fruit prints. Onion skin/beetroot dye. Tie dye fabric
Science – Healthy Eating
PSHE –
Healthy Schools. Rainforests – sustainability
RE- Sowing of seeds ‘The 3 trees’
Geog – Patterns and changes of seasons
History – Passage of time
Fiction / Non Fiction Books:
Percy Park Keeper and other Percy Stories
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Seed – Eric Carle
Jim and the Beanstalk – Raymond Briggs
Class 3 Beanstalk – Martin Woodale
‘Beyond the Beanstalk’ / Jasper’s Beanstalk
Jolly Postman / Mike’s Magic Seeds / Billy’s Sunflower
‘Titch’ – You’ll grow into them
ICT:
Look at flowers/seeds, use digital microscope
Digital image of tree once a month.
Sequence digital pictures
Create a seed pack
Label parts of Plant in ‘Textease’
Simple D.K. Science CD
Teacher Resources:
Little Book of Investigations
Little Book of Growing Things
Discovery World Growing Things