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Biological sciences<br />
GROWING AND CHANGING<br />
Lesson 3<br />
Teacher notes<br />
<strong>Science</strong> inquiry focus:<br />
How do plants grow and change from a seed to a plant?<br />
<strong>Science</strong> Inquiry Skills:<br />
• Questioning and predicting QP<br />
• Planning and conducting PC<br />
• Processing and analysing data and information PA<br />
• Evaluating E<br />
• Communicating C<br />
<strong>Science</strong> as a Human Endeavour:<br />
• Students act like scientists when they make observations,<br />
ask questions and describe the growth of a plant.<br />
• Students explore how science is used in caring for plants<br />
and providing adequate sun, soil, water and air for it to<br />
grow and change to an adult plant.<br />
Technology/Engineering/Mathematics links:<br />
• participating in an interactive website activity<br />
• using a QR code reader on a computer tablet to watch a<br />
video<br />
• using the iMovie® or PowerPoint application to take<br />
photographs and create a stop-motion video<br />
Background information<br />
• The life cycle of a plant begins with a seed.<br />
Usually seeds fall to the ground. If the<br />
conditions are right, the seed will germinate<br />
(begin to grow or develop). The roots grow<br />
first to seek water and nutrients to aid<br />
growth. Then the stem emerges, pushing<br />
up to the sunlight. Finally the branches<br />
and leaves develop. The small plant is now<br />
called a seedling. The plant grows taller<br />
and the stem gets thicker. The plant now<br />
looks like its parent plant. A mature plant<br />
produces f<strong>low</strong>ers which are fertilised by<br />
bees or the wind, and produces seeds in a<br />
fruit or seed pod. The seeds are distributed<br />
by the wind or animals, or simply drop to<br />
the ground. The parent plant eventually<br />
dies, but the life cycle continues.<br />
Assessment focus:<br />
• Use page 13 as a formative<br />
assessment of the student’s<br />
understanding that plants grow<br />
and change from a seed to an<br />
adult plant with f<strong>low</strong>ers and<br />
fruit.<br />
Resources<br />
• Interactive plant sites<br />
• Fully-grown strawberry plant, blueberry<br />
plant or cherry tomato plant<br />
• Sufficient copies of page 13<br />
• QR code reader on a computer tablet<br />
• iMovie® application or similar<br />
• Tomato stop-motion video at and clay-mation<br />
video at <br />
• Videos linked to QR codes on page 13:<br />
and<br />
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R.I.C. Publications® – www.ricpublications.com.au 978-1-925431-95-7 YEAR <strong>Science</strong>:<br />
2 A <strong>STEM</strong> APPROACH 11
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