Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Classify fruits according to their similarities and ask questions about the variety of fruits.
- Investigate wind dispersal by setting up a fair test to compare the flight of different paper spinners.
Activities
- Classify fruits into groups according to similarities of structure and type (Yrs3&4).
- Investigate wind dispersal by setting up fair tests to determine the effect of varying size/weight (Yr3) or material/shape (Yr4) on the flight of a paper spinner.
- Record and report on results and then use them to generate further questions (Yrs3&4).
Investigation - exploring, fair testing, problem solving
Why are there so many types of fruit/seed? For different types of dispersal. Make some easy granola bars. Investigate types of dispersal e.g. animals, water and wind dispersal.
Year 3 - Conduct a simple investigation to answer a question on dispersal.
Year 4 - Explore a variety of factors that may affect wind dispersal.
Vocabulary
Fruit, seed, parent plant, dispersal, germination, investigate, fair test, record, results