How Plants Grow

This Plants Year 3 planning pack will help your KS2 Science class learn all about the fascinating world of plants! Your class will identify the functions of the different parts of a plant, find out what plants need in order to grow well and explore how plants reproduce, all through engaging lessons and fun activities!

This Year 3 plants planning contains everything you need to deliver these lessons, including six lesson plans, slides for each lesson, activity ideas, set of differentiated worksheets and other printable resources - plenty to get your children enthusiastic about plants and transformed into green-fingered gardeners!

A Knowledge Organiser is included within the complete series download, or is available to purchase separately.

You may also like our Plants Topic Bundle – four ready-to-teach schemes of work covering Science, Art, DT and Geography. 

Exploring Roots

What are the parts of a flowering plant? What do they do? The first lesson in this series starts by briefly recapping the main parts of a plant before looking in more detail at the roots of plants.

Your class will explore what roots are for before planting some beans so they can explore root growth for themselves.

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Water Transportation

This fun lesson explores how water is transported in plants. Your class will learn about how the roots of a plant absorb water from the soil and how water travels up the stem to the different parts of the plant.

They can explore this for themselves through various activities involving celery and kitchen roll!

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Leaf Function

Now that your class know that plants need water to survive, they will look at how plants make their own food through the process of photosynthesis.

They will also investigate the other things plants need to grow and survive, and explore how seeds can grow without access to light and air.

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Flower Power

This lesson explores the function of the flower in flowering plants and looks at the role flowers play in the reproduction of plants.

Your class will explore the processes of seed dispersal, pollination and fertilisation.

There is also the chance to dissect some flowers for themselves to identify how they are structured.

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Seed Dispersal

This lesson takes a closer look at seed dispersal and the methods different plants use to give their seeds the best chance of germination from water transportation to explosion!

Your class can then identify the methods used by a variety of plants and identify plants in their local environment that use these different methods of seed dispersal.

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Seed Study

The final lesson in this series explores seeds in further detail. Your class will look at the structure of seeds and the store of food inside a seed to help the seed grow into a plant.

They will also explore the importance of seeds as a food source and have the chance to do some seed taste testing!

The scheme of work is then concluded with a fun End of Unit Quiz to assess what your Year 3 class have learnt about how plants grow.

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