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Explore fruits

Science Year 3
This unit is part of Year 3 Science Artful Flowers, Fruits and Seeds

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Objectives

Explore the huge variety of different fruits – asking questions and making observational drawings and notes. Sort fruits according to your own criteria based on their similarities and differences.

Science Objectives
i) Explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants.

Working Scientifically

  1. Ask relevant questions and use different types of scientific enquiries to answer them.
  2. Gather, record, classify and present data in a variety of ways to help answer questions.

Other Curriculum Areas
Art

  • To improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing and painting.

Extended Writing Opportunities
Information texts: Make illustrated zigzag books that explain the development of fruits.

You Will Need

Provided Resources

  • Teaching PowerPoint
  • A Match the Name game board (printed in colour)
  • And a set of trimmed label cards for each team of 4 children
  • Fruit note sheets –at least one per child
  • Plenary cards – colour printed and trimmed into individual cards

Additional Resources

  • A pair of dice for each team of 4 children
  • Paper plates, or trays to display fruits
  • Magnifying lenses
  • A variety of fruits ideally including berries, pods and dry types like nuts, helicopters and parachute types
  • Oil pastels or good quality soft pencil crayons
  • A selection of sugar paper in dark shades, e.g. black, and different browns and greens
  • Cardboard rectangles and board pens (for labels)

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Explore a variety of fruits and generate questions.
  • Classify fruits according to observable similarities and differences.

Activities

  1. Consolidate the learning of scientific vocabulary by playing a word matching game in teams.
  2. Explore a wide variety of fruits and ask questions about them.
  3. Use observation skills to create detailed drawings of fruits with accompanying notes.
  4. Suggest criteria for grouping fruits and classify them accordingly.

Investigation - exploration
Investigate a wide variety of different fruits, pods, berries etc. that “package” seeds.

Vocabulary
Fruit, pod, nut, seed, berry, seed head, ovary, ovule

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