Lesson Planning

Teaching

Activities

  1. Learn that living things can be grouped in different ways according to their feature (Yr3&4).
  2. Create their own pop-up tree and garden (to be the second double page in their interactive book of living things) (Yr3&4).
  3. Research plants using non-fiction books and the internet -Yr3 writing 3 fascinating facts and Yr4 finding 5 facts.

Investigation - classifying and identifying, analysing secondary sources
Design a popup tree for an eye catching centre piece to your section on plants. Learn the difference between mosses, ferns, conifers and flowering plants. Ask yes/no questions to determine which leave is which from a given set – create a key.
Year 3 - Research 4 plant facts for their page on plants.
Year 4 - Research 6 plant facts for their page on plants.

Vocabulary
Plants, animals, similarities, differences, kingdom, classify, classification, flowering plants, trees, mosses, ferns, spores, cones, leaves, flowers, seeds