KS3 ~ Year 7~ Flowers & Pollination

This lesson is designed for the Activate KS3 Science Course, specifically Year 7 B1.3 Module on ‘Reproduction’.

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The lesson begins with a ‘Think > Pair > Share’ task, asking students to consider why flowers are so important, they can discuss their ideas in pairs before feeding back to the class.

The next activity involves students learning about the anatomy of a flower. Information sheets are firstly placed around the room, using these studenst will need to complete a worksheet which included labelling a cross-sectional diagram of a flower and completing a table to outline the functions of each of the structural features. The mark scheme for this task is included in the PowerPoint so students can assess their own work once they have completed the task.

The latter part of the lesson focuses on pollination, students will firsty watch a video and during this they should come up with a definition of ‘pollination’. Their answers can be checked against the definition provided on the PowerPoint, any corrections can be made.

Students are introduced to the idea of cross-pollination and self-pollination, as well as the idea that plants can either be cross-pollinated by wind or by insects. Students are then shown two plants - Himalayan Balsam and a Dandelion - and are asked to consider which may be pollinated by wind and which by insects, try to encourage them to use a description of the flowers structure in their answers.

Lastly, students will need to use a set of statements to complete a table outlining the structural features of insect-pollinated plants vs. wind-pollinated plants. The answers to this task are included in the PowerPoint so students can self-assess their work once it is complete.

The plenary requires students to finish off one of the sentence starters provided, summarising what they have learned this lesson.

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