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SCIENCE MID TERM PLANNING |
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Year 3 SUMMER |
Week 1 |
Week 2 |
Week 3 |
Week 4 |
Week 5 |
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Main Topic |
3B Helping Plants to Grow Well |
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Lesson Topic |
Virtual Greengrocers |
The Structure of Plants |
The Root as a Special Organ |
Greenhouse Investigation |
Keeping Plants in the Dark |
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Aims |
To establish that fruit and vegetables are all plants that we eat |
To show that a plant is a living organism and that each part does a different job |
To establish the important of the roots of a plant |
To establish the advantages of growing plants in a greenhouse |
To show the importance of healthy plants |
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Learning Objectives |
To appreciate the different parts of the plan which we eat and don’t eat and to identify and name the various parts |
To recognise the different roles that each plant part plays |
To understand that the roots carry water to the rest of the plant through the veins in the stem |
To appreciate the advantages of light, warmth, air and water in the growing of healthy plants |
Plants will always grow towards the light. Without light the plan will become yellow, thin and spindly |
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Resources |
Paper and modelling materials, pupil book page 10-11 |
Plants, pupil book page 11, Pupil Master Sheet 3B 1 |
Bulbs and holders, celery, rulers |
Radish seeds, pots, compost, water, bottles, syringes, thermometers, rulers, PMS 3B 2, pupil book page 11+14 |
Beans, cardboard boxes, strips of card, tape, pupil book page 12-13 |
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Delivery |
Pupils name as many fruits and vegetables as they can. Pupils draw & annotate/make models of fruits/veg. For display. Pupils make bar charts to show which parts are eaten |
Discussion comparing functions of body parts to functions of plant parts. Pupils measure relationship between number of leaves and health of plant |
Use display from week 1, list plants whose roots we eat. Devise experiment to measure how much water the roots take in a week. Observe what happens to celery when put in dyed water for ½ hour |
Teacher shows seeds & establishes aims. Pupils plan investigation, each group changing 1 variable. Pupils decide how to measure progress & do so over next 2 weeks |
Pupils describe plants which have been kept in the dark. Make a maze for a bean plant in a cardboard box which one hole in the top. Pupils observe over next week how plant grows towards the light |
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Cross-curricular links |
English, Maths, Art |
English and Maths |
English and Maths |
English, DT, Maths |
English and DT |