Learning objective
Knowledge:
- To describe the life cycle of a plant, including the reproductive stage.
Working scientifically:
- To observe and compare equivalent parts in different flowers.
Success criteria
Knowledge:
- I can
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National curriculum
Science
Living things and their habitats
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Cross-curricular links
Art and design
Pupils should be
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
1: Lesson plan
An area for you to put useful resources from the previous lesson
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Adaptive teaching
Pupils needing extra support
Could use the life cycle diagram from the Resource: Plant life cycle poster to help them identify the correct order of the life cycle stages in the Attention grabber; could use the flower diagram from the Knowledge organiser to identify the parts of a flower in the flower dissection activity; could use the Resource: Video transcript (support) to help with the wrapping up task.
Pupils working at greater depth
Could design their own table to record mass as well as root length and calculate the increase in mass/growth rate using a sensitive scale.
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Assessing progress and understanding
Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: describing the plant life
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Knowledge outcomes
Knowledge:
- I can describe the plant life cycle: seed stage, germination stage, seedling stage, leaf growing stage, flowering stage and pollination stage.
- I can describe plant sexual reproduction using the keywords fertilisation, pollen and ovule.
- I can describe asexual reproduction in plants to produce clones of the parent plant.
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Vocabulary definitions
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asexual reproduction
A process where a plant produces a new plant from a part of itself without the involvement of another plant.
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cuttings
A method of asexual reproduction where a piece of the plant (like a stem or leaf) is cut and planted to grow a new plant.
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In this unit
Science Y5: Life cycles and reproduction
Lesson 1: Life cycles and reproduction in plants
Lesson 2: Life cycle of a mammal
Lesson 3: Life cycle of a bird
Lesson 4: Life cycle of an amphibian
Lesson 5: Life cycle of an insect
Lesson 6: Asexual plant reproduction
Maintained by: Kapow Primary team
Last update: 24th April, 2024
