Plants
Year 3
Unit Overview
❇ MEMORABLE MOMENT
Planting their own seeds.
Dissecting sycamore seeds
️✏️ WRITING OPPORTUNITIES
Investigation booklet
🌳 LEARNING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM
Leaf rubbing
Exploring different plants and parts of plants.
Unit Sequence: Learning Intentions
Parts of a plant and their functions
Plant dissection
Plan - plant growth
Plant - plant growth
The stem and water transportation
Looking at seeds
Reproductive parts in plants
Pollination
Seed dispersal
Life cycle of plants
Scientific Enquiry: Investigations
Why is water important?- Place Vaseline on celery and observe changes of leaves over time.
Set up and carry out some simple, comparative and fair tests, making predictions for what might happen.
Record observations through drawings.
Why are trees tall?-Children suck up water through straws to investigate how water is transported in trees and plants.
To record data in a table.
To analyse findings.
🏁 BIG FINISH
Quiz
📖 FOCUS TEXT(S)
Plants by Angela Royston
Cool stuff to grow by Stephanie Turnbull
The Secret Life of trees by Moira Butterfield and Vivian Minemaker