Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Explore the school garden (or a selected area of the playground).
- Examine plants for signs of them having been eaten. Consider what may have eaten the plants and what else might be living in that place.
- Look carefully at pollen and understand more about the role it plays in the growing of plants.
- Create large pollen sculptures out of clay.
- Use the scientific vocabulary associated with plants.
Activities
- Examine plants for signs of them having been eaten and consider what is eating them.
- Understand what pollen is and the role it plays in helping to make new plants.
- Appreciate the wide variety of pollen grain designs and create large pollen sculptures out of clay.
Investigation - exploring
Create large pollen sculptures out of clay and display, along with facts, in the classroom.
Vocabulary
Plant, leaf, grow, weed, change, living, water, healthy, pollen, flower