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One potato, two potato

Science Year 1
This unit is part of Year 1 Science What's Growing In Our Gardens?

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Objectives

Look at different potatoes and potato products. Working in teams, prepare tubs for growing, and plant a chitted potato. As a team, how will you keep your potato plant healthy?

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

  1. Ask simple questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways.
  2. Observe closely, using simple equipment.
  3. Perform simple tests.
  4. Identify and classify.
  5. Use their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.
  6. Gather and record data to help answer questions.

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Share knowledge about potatoes, including how they are grown and in what forms we can eat them.
  • Look at and compare different types of potato.
  • Prepare tubs , plant chitted seed potatoes and make predictions.
  • Consider what we need to do to encourage our seed potato to grow and produce lots of potatoes.

Activities

  1. Share what they already know about potatoes, including how they are grown and in what forms we can eat them.
  2. Consider the different types of potato, including their similarities and differences.
  3. Work in teams to prepare tubs and plant chitted potatoes.
  4. Consider what each team needs to do to look after the potato plants.

Investigation - exploring
In groups, prepare tubs and plant chitted potatoes.

Vocabulary
Plant, leaf, grow, weed, change, living, water, healthy, similar to, different from, potato, chitting

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