You Will Need
Provided Resources
- Who's eaten the plant? resource
- What is pollen? resource
- How to make a clay pollen grain
Additional Resources
- Clipboards
- Pencils
- Cameras
- Sketchbooks
- Air-drying clay
- Clay board
- Tools
What lives in the garden?
Science Year 1
This unit is part of
Year 1 Science What's Growing In Our Gardens?
Objectives
Go outside and look carefully at the plants and flowers. Understand more of the role pollen plays in the growing of fruit and vegetables and create a large pollen sculpture out of clay!
Science Objectives
i) Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees.
ii) Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.
Working Scientifically
- Ask simple questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways.
- Observe closely, using simple equipment.
- Perform simple tests.
- Identify and classify.
- Use their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.
- Gather and record data to help answer questions.
Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Explore the school garden (or a selected area of the playground).
- Examine plants for signs of them having been eaten. Consider what may have eaten the plants and what else might be living in that place.
- Look carefully at pollen and understand more about the role it plays in the growing of plants.
- Create large pollen sculptures out of clay.
- Use the scientific vocabulary associated with plants.
Activities
- Examine plants for signs of them having been eaten and consider what is eating them.
- Understand what pollen is and the role it plays in helping to make new plants.
- Appreciate the wide variety of pollen grain designs and create large pollen sculptures out of clay.
Investigation - exploring
Create large pollen sculptures out of clay and display, along with facts, in the classroom.
Vocabulary
Plant, leaf, grow, weed, change, living, water, healthy, pollen, flower