Unit Planning for Science Topic on Plants for Year 3
A unit plan of 6 lessons for a topic on plants. Lesson timings for each lesson are approximately 90 or 120 minutes.
The planning includes, learning objectives, teaching ideas, key questions, activities and resources list.
Teaching points that are covered in the topic are listed below:
- Understand that it is important to be able to grow plants well because they provide food and other items for us
- To know that all food chains begin with a green plant
- To understand the function of the parts of a plant
- To understand that plants need leaves in order to grow well
- To plan an appropriate investigation
- To make careful observations and measurements of plants growing
- To use simple apparatus to measure the height of plants in standard measures
- To use results to draw conclusions and provide explanations
- To know that water is transported through the stem to other parts of the plant
- To know that that plants need light for healthy growth
- To know that plants need water, but not unlimited water, for healthy growth
- To know that temperature can affect the growth of plants
- To ask questions about the growth of plants
- To plan a fair test
- To write a clear conclusion
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