Lesson 3: Exploring plant parts

Engaging in a role-play activity by following recipes to make pretend medicines using plant parts in a mud kitchen.

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Learning objective

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EYFS outcomes

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

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Support and challenge

Adults can use the opportunity to:

  • Support the children in developing fine motor skills by guiding them to use scissors and safety knives to cut paper and modelling dough.
  • Assist the children in creating their own medicine recipe cards.

Key vocabulary

  • flower

  • leaf

  • roots

  • stem

In this topic

Lesson 2: Plants Previous Lesson
Lesson 4: Planting seeds Next Lesson

Lesson 5: Caring for the Earth

Lesson 4: Planting seeds

Lesson 2: Plants

Lesson 1: Exploring outdoors

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