Year OneScience | Year 1 | Plants | How Do Plants Grow? | Lesson 6

Plants

Science

Success Criteria

Aim• I can talk about how my bean plant has grown.

• I can say what plants need to grow well and give reasons for my answers.

• I can measure my bean plant with a ruler.

• I can describe my bean plant using words from a word bank.

• I can say three things that plants need to grow.

• I can say how I know this.

Plants.

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Bean Plants

Do you remember when we planted our bean plant?

How did we plant it to make sure it grew big and strong?

We put the beans in a warm and sunny spot.

Bean Plants

We put some soil into a pot.

We gave the beans some

water.

We planted our beans

inside the soil.

We have put them in a sunny spot.

Bean Plants

How have we been caring for our bean plants?

We have given them water.

Bean Plants

How are our bean plants growing?

What words can we use to describe them?

Do you remember the other beans we planted?

How Do Plants Grow?

We planted a bean without soil.

We planted a bean and We planted a bean and put in in a dark place.

How Do Plants Grow?

How do you think these have been growing?

Lets have a look!

Oh dear! These bean plants did not grow well at all!

How Do Plants Grow?

Why do you think this is?

What Do Plants Need?

Write down all the things that a plant needs to grow.

How do you know a plant needs these things?

Write down your reasons.

We are going to fill in the last page of our Bean Plant Diaries.

Beans!

Can you remember what grows on plants when they are fully grown?

Plants grow flowers and fruit.

These are bean flowers.

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Beans!

The fruit of a bean plant is...beans!

There are lots of different kinds of tasty beans. What kinds of beans do you like to eat?

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Success Criteria

Aim• I can talk about how my bean plant has grown.

• I can say what plants need to grow well and give reasons for my answers.

• I can measure my bean plant with a ruler.

• I can describe my bean plant using words from a word bank.

• I can say three things that plants need to grow.

• I can say how I know this.