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Science at key stage 3    (Year 9)

Unit 9D: Plants for food
Section 3: Checking progress

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Objectives
Children should learn:
  • to relate together ideas about feeding relationships and photosynthesis

Activities

Outcomes
Children:
  • Ask pupils to make a concept map using appropriate terms, eg producer, consumer, food web, photosynthesis, energy, Sun, glucose, starch, root, leaf, stem. Ask pupils to exchange maps and to suggest additional connections, explaining these.
  • make and explain connections between the use of plants for food and photosynthesis and its products

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1. a. Where does our food come from?
2. b. Where does our food come from?
3. Checking progress
4. a. How do fertilisers affect plant growth?
5. b. How do fertilisers affect plant growth?
6. a. How does competition with other plants affect plant growth?
7. b. How does competition with other plants affect plant growth?
8. a. How do pests affect plant growth?
9. b. How do pests affect plant growth?
10. c. How do pests affect plant growth?
11. a. What is the perfect environment for growing plants?
12. b. What is the perfect environment for growing plants?
13. Reviewing work