Wiltshire E-Learning Project Curriculum Area: Science KS1

Learning Objective

Green Plants & the Environment

These activities are designed to supplement work done in science and should always be accompanied by some practical investigation

Software - Websites - Activities

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Espresso

SMART Investigation Planner

 

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Life processes 1. Pupils should be taught

 

a) the differences between things that are living and things that have never been alive

 

 

 

b) that animals, including humans, move, feed, grow, use their senses and reproduce

 

c) to relate life processes to animals and plants found in the local environment.

 

 
 

Clicker 4 Resources

 

Living Things

  Living Things 1
  Living Things 2
www.learninggrids.com/uk

 

Identify living and non-living things www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclip
www.bbc.co.uk/education/dynamo/lab/oddone
 www.wsgfl2.westsussex.gov.uk/aplaws/grid+

 

Match animals to their young
www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources
Find out about animals in different environments
www.naturegrid.org.uk/explorer/index
 
Record information about minibeasts found  in the environment www.wsgfl.westsussex.gov.uk/grid+

 

Use Graphing package to record plants, animals etc. found in the environment

 
 

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Green plants 3. Pupils should be taught:

 

a) to recognise that plants need light and water to grow

 

b) to recognise and name the leaf, flower, stem and root of flowering plants

 

c) that seeds grow into flowering plants.

 

 

 

Simulate growing a plant www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclip               www.wsgfl.westsussex.gov.uk/grid+ www.museum.man.ac.uk/learning/grow
 
Label parts of a plant www.primaryresources.co.uk/online www.wsgfl.westsussex.gov.uk/grid+

 

Simulate planting a seed www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclip  www.wsgfl.westsussex.gov.uk/grid+

 

Clicker 4 Resource    Science Investigation www.learninggrids.com/uk

Record the growth of a plants from seed over time using a graphing package or spreadsheet

 

 

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Clicker 4

 

Graphplot

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Variation and classification                                 4. Pupils should be taught to:

 

b) group living things according to observable similarities and differences.

 

 

 

Sort minibeasts according to how they move www.wsgfl.westsussex.gov.uk/grid+

 

Use branching database program to sort and classify living things
 

 

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Living things in their environment

5. Pupils should be taught to:

 

a) find out about the different kinds of plants and animals in the local environment

 

b) identify similarities and differences between local environments and ways in which these affect animals and plants that are found there

 

 

 

c) care for the environment.

 

 

 

 

Enter data about minibeasts, animals etc. into a data base

 

Use Graphing package to record plants, animals etc. found in the environment

 

 

Identify living things found in the local environment www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips

 

Find out about animals in different environments www.naturegrid.org.uk/explorer/index

 

Match animals to their environments www.bbc.co.uk/education/dynamo/lab/index

 

 

 

 

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