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What an exhibition

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

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Objectives

Test your knowledge on flowers, fruits and seeds with a quiz. Then it will be time to make preparations for the Art Exhibition. Work on your own group project to delight visitors, perhaps a quiz, a dance, a puppet display, a competition or some interesting labels and explanations.

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

Working Scientifically

  1. Report on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations, displays or presentations of results and conclusions.

Extended Writing Opportunities
Information texts: Make creative, informative posters that invite visitors to your exhibition and include key information that they will learn when they attend.

You Will Need

Provided Resources

  • Quiz and quiz answers PowerPoints
  • Quiz sheet
  • Answer sheet
  • Bunting triangles printed from session resource (see Teachers’ Notes)

Additional Resources

  • All the artwork produced so far in this block
  • Individual letters drawn onto coloured paper to spell out a bunting message
  • Scissors
  • PVA glue & spreaders or brushes
  • A length of string for your bunting
  • Pressed flowers from Session 1
  • Other resources may vary according to your activity choices – paper, pencils, colouring pencils, felt tip pens, marker pens, rulers

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Recap on all our knowledge and understanding of flowers, fruits and seeds.
  • Prepare a variety of displays, explanations and presentations for visitors to the Artful Flowers, Fruits and Seeds Exhibition.

Activities

  1. Undertake a quiz to assess knowledge and understanding of flowers, fruits and seeds.
  2. Make bunting for the exhibition using the pressed flowers from Session 1.
  3. Undertake a group activity in preparation for the Artful Flowers, Fruits and Seeds Exhibition, e.g. a bee dance or puppet display, labels and explanations, quizzes and competitions, posters and invitations.

Investigation - analysing secondary sources
Gather together and stage exhibits for the Art and Science exhibition. Write explanations and captions to accompany art, models, real life exhibits and investigation results.

Vocabulary
Fruit, seed, flower, pollination, pollen, stamen, stigma, ovary, fertilization, dispersal, germination, reproduction

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