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

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Objectives

Learn how insects and other creatures are important in the pollination of flowers. Discover the secrets of how bees communicate using a waggle dance and give it a go yourself. Create some stunning bee and flower models.

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

Working Scientifically

  1. Identify differences, similarities or changes related to simple scientific ideas and processes.

Other Curriculum Areas
Art

  • To improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials.

You Will Need

Provided Resources

  • A sheet of other session templates
  • 3 strikes and you’re out and task PowerPoints
  • Instructions to make model bees and the waggle dance game

Additional Resources

  • Watercolour flower paintings from last session
  • Flight of the Bumble Bee by Rimsky Korsakov (CD or YouTube)
  • The petal templates and other templates copied onto white card
  • Watercolour/water soluble crayons – about 6 sets
  • Paint brushes, water pots, water colour pallets & mixing pallets
  • Covers or newspaper to protect tables
  • Plasticine or sticky tack (a conker sized blob for each flower)
  • PVA glue and spreaders (1 pot per table)
  • Lots of cotton buds with one end cut off and a few with no ends
  • 4 rectangular car wash sponges & pipe cleaners (3 for each bee)
  • Strong black thread (e.g. embroidery thread) & needles
  • A yellow (felt style) dishcloth & 0.5 metre of plain black cotton
  • Bendy black wire and thick strong wire
  • Tambourine
  • Sticky notes (for plenary)

Weblinks
A short film on how flowers make seeds from https://www.bbc.co.uk
Lovely film clip showing the bee waggle dance from https://www.bbc.co.uk
The Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky Korsakov from https://www.YouTube.com

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Understand that flowers vary in size, colour, shape and form but all play a crucial role in reproduction..

Activities

  1. Discover the role played by insects in pollination.
  2. Learn to do a bee Waggle Dance and know this is how they communicate with other bees.
  3. Create 3D models of either flowers or bees.
  4. Play a waggle dance game to communicate the location of a target “flower”.

Investigation - analysing secondary sources/observation
Identify male and female parts and learn their function. Make model flowers and insect puppets for the exhibition. Use puppets and models to demonstrate pollination.

Vocabulary
Reproduction, male, female, stigma, style, ovary, carpel, stamens, pollination, fertilisation, waggle dance

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