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Probing questions: What are the names of some plants you know?What
parts of a plant do you know? What different stages of a plant’s life do
you know?
EXPLORE Lesson 2
Parts of plants Sing song – ‘roots and stems and leaves and flowers’
Discuss plant structures
Role play the structure of a flower (physical activity)
Graphic organiser of plants (in plant books)
Lesson 3
Plants in Our Walk around school grounds
Community Students pictures of different types of plants (trees, bushes, flowers,
grass)
Look at different plants growing in unusual areas (desert, water, parasitic
plants)
Draw the different plants they saw and different environments (video,
pictures)
Lesson 4
Leaves Visit school garden or nearest park (excursion)
Refer to Lesson Collect samples of leaves and flowers. Take pictures of different plants
1 Classification of leaves. Brainstorm keywords (adjectives)
With collected samples students create leaf rubbings, drying leaves,
collage & imprints (stations)
Science plant book entry
Lesson 5
Seeds The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle (1970). Explores the life cycle of a flower.
(Lesson 9 from Explore different types of seed families – classify according to size,
Unit) shape, edibility
Soaked bean seed experiment & record results (pg. A-143 from Sadia’s
book)
Science plant book entry
ELABORATE Lesson 7
The use of Life with plants / Life without plants
plants Food, medicine, paper, housing, clothing etc
Oxygen & carbon dioxide
EVALUATE Lesson 8
Comprehensiveness of student plant books (Assessed using a 3-point
rubric system)
Plant life stages jumble (Primary Connections) as individual summative
assessment
Draw a plant and label its structure
Students evaluate unit with De Bono’s thinking hats (group)