Menu

This science teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants and discuss how to support plant growth. The class can practise growing plants under a range of conditions to identify what plants need to grow.

Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants and discuss how to support plant growth

Lesson One : What Plants

Locate and identify different types of plants and flower that can be found around the school grounds

Lesson Two : Planting Seeds

Investigate and record how different types of seeds can be planted to grow into a plant

Lesson Three : Flowers

Identify, locate and describe each of the main parts that can be found on a flowering plant

Lesson Four : Growing Plants

Conduct different tests to identify what happens to plants when grown with no air, water or sunlight

Lesson Five : Changing Plants

Investigate and record how different types of common and wild plants grow and develop over time

Lesson Six : Plant Instructions

Identify and write sets of instructions about how to grow healthy plants and flowers in a garden

Plants Assessment

Assess abilities in abilities in identifying and describing the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants and discussing how to support plant growth

  • Dragons
    Select descriptive vocabulary to use when writing poems that play with language to describe different parts of a dragon
  • Poem Changes
    Review and edit a poem about a dragon selecting more effective descriptive vocabulary for each part of the creature
  • Dragon Poetry Writing
    Select and compile expanded noun phrases to use in a poem with alliteration describing a dragon
  • Dragon Words
    Make collections of descriptive vocabulary words that can be used to describe different parts of a dragon