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Schemes of Work
QCA

Science at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 1)

Unit 1B: Growing plants
Section 7: Living and artificial plants

QCA

Objectives

Children should learn:
  • that plants are living but that an artificial plant is not living

Activities

Outcomes

Children:
  • Show children an artificial plant and a similar living plant and ask them to suggest how they know that one is living and the other is not. Discuss children's ideas with them and extend the discussion by showing them a seedling that has died.
  • state that living plants grow
  • distinguish between a plant that has died and an artificial plant

Points to note


Sections in this unit

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1. Introduction
2. Finding plants
3. Watching plants grow
4. Plants for our food
5. Watering plants
6. Plants and light
7. Living and artificial plants
8. Review