Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Understand that flowers vary in size, colour, shape and form but all play a crucial role in reproduction.
• Be able to identify and describe the role of the male and female parts in a flower.

Activities

1. Rehearse the names and functions of the parts within a flower (Yrs3&4).
2. Create colourful labelled 3D flower models (Yr3 using key word prompts, Yr4 without prompts).
3. Help to prepare all the ingredients to make a saffron, vegetable paella (Yrs3&4).
4. Discuss where ingredients come from and experience the cooking and eating of some paella (Yrs3&4).

Investigation - analysing secondary sources/observation
Discover the secret of saffron (made from dried crocus stigmas) – the most expensive spice in the world. Observe and identify the male and female parts of a flower and learn their function. Make saffron bread and some simple model flowers to demonstrate stigmas and stamens.
Year 3 - Write annotated labels using prompts.
Year 4 - Write annotated labels.

Vocabulary
Reproduction, male, female, stigma, style, seed, nectar, stamens, pollination, fertilisation