PLANTS RESOURCES and LESSON OUTLINES Growing Seeds • “Bean Book” to print • Calendar to print Observing and recording changes Caring for a plant Seeds • Power Point – Seeds and Plants • Matching cards Parts of a plant • Large and small labels Trees • PowerPoint – evergreen and deciduous trees • Tree life cycle worksheets • Parts of a tree worksheet What makes plants grow? • Worksheet • PowerPoint – what do plants need to grow?

Use the six power point presentations to introduce your students to the scientific methodology and concepts: How Science has had a positive and negative effect over time Following the Scientific Method Exploring scientific ideas Getting accurate results Recording and concluding Limitations of tests Follow up with the six sets of notes and worksheets for each lesson.

Working Scientifically 5 is a good introduction to scientific methods and terminology. It covers: Creativity in Science Planning to experiment The main variables that may affect investigative results Communicating conclusions Evaluating accuracy of conclusions Five presentations are used to illustrate the important concepts above. Each is followed by activities for learning in worksheet form.

This is a useful resource for beginning the science curriculum with students in Year 4 Topics: Finding knowledge Prediction and Hypothesis A Fair Test Setting up a Science Experiment Collecting data Analyzing and drawing conclusions The Scientific process in discovering our COVID vaccines There are seven power point presentations, seven worksheets and notes for students.