CURRICULUM SUMMARY –Autumn Term (September-October) 2014
SUBJECT: Science
YEAR GROUP: Year 5
Week Learning objectives
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Activities (in brief)
First week of school – alternative activities (Icebreakers, Time Capsule, Mad Libs, etc.) +
Assessment
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Revise the parts of flowering plants.
Review classification of keys.
Revise how plants can be classified according to
their characteristics.
Know the processes that take place in
germination.
Know the structure of single and composite
flowers.
Know the pollen-producing and pollen-receiving
parts of the flower. Know the pollinating insects.
Consider the diversity of seed dispersal.
Understand the ways in which seeds are
dispersed.
Learn to distinguish between ephemerals,
annuals, biennials, herbaceous perennials and
woody perennials.
Learn the plants in a habitat using botanical
vocabulary.
Learn how seaweeds are adapted for shore life.
Learn about how plant life cycles are adapted
for desert conditions.
Learn about prehistoric plants.
Know a living fossil.
TEACHER: Luke Jez
ALL LIVING THINGS: PLANT LIFE CYCLES
Recapping on how plants are living organisms. Devising a key to separate moss, fern,
conifer and flowering plants.
Investigating if seeds need water, warmth and light. Predicting sequence of future
events and checking as germination proceeds.
Comparing a diagram with a real single flower.
Distinguishing single flowers from composite flowers.
Making a pollen collector, examining pollen and identifying pollinating insects.
Examining the structure of wind-pollinated flowers and relating them to their function.
Examining and describing the dispersal methods of a wide range of seeds.
Classifying plants according to whether they are annuals, biennials, herbaceous or
woody perennials.
Visiting a habitat, making observations and notes on the plants and producing a
description of them.
Investigating the habitat of seaweed and how it is adapted for survival in its habitat.
Answering questions using information about desert plant life cycles.
Investigating how water travels through the stem of a plant.
Investigating plant fossil formation. Modelling the creation of a fossil.
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Find out about the work of naturalist.
Finding out about the life and work of Theophrastus, John Ray and Joseph Banks and
the work of Kew Garderns.
Researching the plants we use.
Understand how plants and trees make their
own food.
Learn how bulbs and tubers grow.
Understand the requirements of plants when
setting up a garden, flower bed or vegetable
pot.
Labelling the process of photosynthesis and writing about this process using own words.
Investigating bulbs and other geophytes and finding out how they are different.
Growing a geophyte.