Plants Revision Lesson KS2

Primary Key Stage 2 - Revision Tools for Plants. The content can be split over two lessons. For a single lesson we suggest selecting two or three teach-check-practice cycles to focus on.

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Content Covered

• Parts of a plant
• Plant growth
• Water transport in plants
• Flower structure
• Pollination and fertilisation
• Seed dispersal

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Lesson Includes

• Starter activity (retrieval practice/recall)
• Warm-up activity
• Group reading to review vocabulary (focusing on words which will come up in multiple science topics like produce, reproduction and organ)
• Plants and Growth (reteach-check-practice cycle 1)
• Flower Parts (cycle 2)
• Pollination (cycle 3)
• Fertilisation (cycle 4)
• Seed dispersal (cycle 5)
• Plant revision practice sheet
• Plant revision challenge sheet
• English link (find the verbs, creative writing, group reading)
• Math link (calculations on the topic’s theme)
• Opportunities to develop vocabulary, literacy and oracy
• SEND adaptations: the lesson is chunked to avoid working memory overload, blue background for Irlens, word banks are provided, text is broken up for dyslexia and a consistent format is followed for ASD. Group reading is differentiated in difficulty and keywords from previous lessons are reinforced. Learning from previous lessons is interlinked to help students catch up after absence. Challenge questions are included for high ability students.