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Growing for Success!

Science Year 3/4
This unit is part of Year 3/4 Science Greatly Green Growers

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Objectives

It’s time to test your knowledge on Plants by taking part in a quiz before putting together your final information and advice for the Greatly Green Growers. Will it be enough to help them grow the strongest, healthiest plants possible and win their growing competition against Croppingwell? It’s up to you!

Science Objectives
i) Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant.

Working Scientifically

  1. Report on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations, displays or presentations of results and conclusions.
  2. Use straightforward scientific evidence to answer questions or to support findings.

You Will Need

Provided Resources

  • Quiz, Answers and Plenary PowerPoints
  • Blank Quiz Answer Sheet
  • Quiz answers
  • Y3 Graph Paper
  • Y4 Task Sheets
  • Teachers’ Notes

Additional Resources

  • All of the learning, work and research produced over the block (assembled ready to report to the GGGs)
  • Pencils, pens, rulers, coloured pencil crayons or felt tips

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Recap on all their knowledge and understanding of plants and what they need to grow.
  • Use notes and data from investigations to draw conclusions and present findings.

Activities

  1. Review their knowledge and understanding of plants by taking part in a quiz/ assessment task (Yrs 3&4).
  2. Recap on all the requirements of plants for health and growth by either: drawing graphs of the results of the seedling investigation (Yr3) or using the findings to give detailed advice on growing strong, healthy plants (Yr4).

Investigation - analysing secondary sources
It’s time to put together an advice pack for the Greatly Green Growers. Work together in groups to assemble data, graphs and notes on all the investigations. Make an advice leaflet to help them understand all the requirements and how they can maximise the growth of their plants for the competition.
Year 3 /Year 4 - Work together to make the advice packs and leaflets. Have higher expectations of Year 4s.

Vocabulary
All vocabulary previously learnt in this block

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