Science at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 1)

• name some plants found around the school eg daisy, dandelion and name groups of plants eg trees, grass, pondweed, moss
• describe orally, by drawing or in simple writing, what the plants are like eg trees are tall and have thick branches, dandelions have yellow flowers and green leaves and where they can grow eg there is grass in the path cracks
• recognise when plants should not be pulled up

• recognise and say that the plant has grown eg it is taller, it has more leaves, its stem is fatter
• communicate observations in drawings and descriptions of these eg it had two leaves, now it has many

• state that humans eat some plants

• identify the roots of a plant
• make comparisons, identifying differences and some similarities eg they are both white

• present results by writing or drawing in a table or chart prepared for them
• use the results of their experiment to show that plants need water to grow eg by saying the ones we didn't water died but the others stayed green

• suggest a way eg keeping one plant in a box or cupboard and one in the classroom of finding out whether green plants need light to grow
• identify differences between the plants eg the one in the dark isn't green and doesn't look healthy
• draw a conclusion from the results eg the one in the dark didn't look healthy. I think plants like to be in the light

• state that living plants grow
• distinguish between a plant that has died and an artificial plant