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Lesson Five – Changing Plants
This science teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate, explain and record how different types of common and wild plants can grow, change and develop over time.
The class can identify and illustrate how all plants need light, air and water to grow effectively and develop in some different locations around the school grounds.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate, explain and record how different types of common and wild plants can grow, change and develop over time
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some different types of common and wild plants and a worksheet to predict and record what might happen to a range of different plants when they are grown with no air, water or sunlight.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and record how different types of common and wild plants can grow and develop over time.
This lesson is part of a science scheme of work to get the children to identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants and investigate and test how to support plant growth. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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