Year 1

Plants – Flowering Plants

Objective Identify evergreen and flowering plants and sort them

Describe flowers
Success Criteria Be able to:
- classify evergreen and flowering plants
- describe the shape, colors, and size of flowers
Key/New Words similar, different, non-flowering plant, flowering plant, color, shape, size,
texture
Material  3-part cards of common garden plants
 3-part cards of a flowering plant
 Booklet of flowering plants
Learning process Engagement (great stories, charts, demonstrations, and experiments 
introduce Language and concepts)

Review the names of the plants children have learned in the previous lesson.
Ask them to put the plants into 2 groups: plants with no flowers and plants
with flowers.
Put the word cards at the top of the column.

Exploration
Explain to children what ‘similar’ and ‘different’ mean.
Let’s explore more about flowering plants.
Look at these two plants.
Can you tell me some of the ways they are similar?
Can you tell me some of the ways they are different?
They have similar colors/shapes/sizes/textures.
They have different colors/shapes/sizes/textures.
…
Write down the words color, shape, size, and texture.

Consolidation + communication
Go outside to look for flowers with similar and different characteristics to add
into the book.
Follow-up Make as many comparisons as children can
activity Sort plants into 2 groups: flowering and non-flowering in children’s
notebooks

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Seeds and bulbs

Objective
Success Criteria -
Key/New Words
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Follow-up
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Lesson 2: Seeds and bulbs

Objective Identify and describe the basic structure of various common flowering plants,
including trees.
Observing closely, using simple equipment.
To describe and compare seeds and bulbs
Success Criteria Be able to:
- name different seeds and bulbs.
- observe and compare seeds and bulbs
Key/New Words Seeds, bulbs, plants, planting, grow, soil, pots, observations, similar, different
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Learning process
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activity