Complete science unit- year 2 plants- 9 lessons, notebook slides and all resources included

Huge bundle of resources to cover all year 2 plants science national curriculum objectives and also some year 1 objectives and some mathematics (data handling) objectives to promote cross curricular learning.

8 differentiated lessons

Lessons included:

• planting a seed (sunflower), finding out how to care for it and measuring it over time.
• Investigation over time: What does a plant need to grow. Looks a planting a bean seed and keeping it in different conditions to monitor it’s growth.
• Lifecycle of a plant (using the control from the bean seed experiment to allow children to explore this themselves)
• Dissection of a plant to look at the different parts and their jobs.
• Carnation experient to explore the movement of water in plants. (Using food colouring in the water to colourthe petals- make sure you use plenty of food colouring for it to work!!)
• Plant and tree hunt, record using tally marks and present findings in a block diagram (links to data in maths)
• Create a mini rainforest terrarium in a bottle. Full instructions and resource list included.
• Analyse sunflower growth, show results in a pictogram. Extra questions for HA children to answer once they have created their pictogram (links to data in maths).

The corresponding notebook slides are easy to follow with lots of questions to encourage scientific thinking.
There is differentiation for HA/MA/EAL or NTE