Swallow Hill Community College
Faculty of Science – Key Stage 3 Scheme of Work
Year 7
Module Title
Casualty – topic
2
Development of
medicines
Lesson
10
POS R & C
POS HSW
2.1 – structure
of plants
1.1b(i) – scientific
development
1.1b (ii) – how
decisions are
affected by
society
Lesson Outcomes
Lesson Objectives
Students will be able to label a diagram To be able to label a diagram of a plant
of a plant and state what each part
and relate each part to the relevant life
does. Middle ability students will be
process
able to relate the parts to the 7 life
To consider alternative medicines and
processes. Higher ability will be able to consider how opinions have changed over
link the structure to function.
the years.
Students will be able to give 3 examples
of plants that can be used in herbal
medicine
Students will have considered different
opinions on herbal medicine and form
their own opinion.
APP – assessment pieces to be collected from this lesson.
Safety implications
See notes on foxgloves
Suggested Lesson Outline
Starter
Our friend in casualty gets a visitor, they bring him a bunch of flowers. What should you
do with the flowers to keep them from dying?
Phase 1
Very low ability- there are 2 worksheets for them to label a diagram of the plant and an
extra one on roots if needed
Medium ability – draw their own diagram / use the one provided to label the plant but
also relate each part to the life processes in MRS GREN. A good opportunity here to
revise the life processes from primary school
Higher ability – AFL – they should be able to label a diagram of a plant – check they can
do this, introduce xylem using the celery example. Could look at plant structure using
the bioviewers (recommended) or microscopes. Look in more detail at what each part
does, linking structure to function for the most able.
Phase 2
(optional, depending on ability of group: card sort activity on linking life processes to
plant structure) – could be done quickly on white board (higher), as a card sort (lower) or
worksheet
Phase 3
What plants can be used as medicines? See what students know.
Show PowerPoint on herbal medicine. For less able groups the PowerPoint may need
editing to contain less written information.
Safety – please make sure students are aware that foxgloves are poisonous. St John’s
Wort also stops contraceptive pill working (hopefully this shouldn’t be an issue!)
As you go through the PowerPoint try to discuss with the students how opinions have changed over time about the use of herbal medicine
and why. Discussion points for higher ability could be – why did herbal medicine become less popular in this country in the last 50 years?
What herbal cures are still used? Why has herbal medicine become more popular recently?
Plenary
DVD clip 9C.2 from Year 9 science video vault on plant structure and maybe 9C.9 on
root structure, could also show 9D.1 and 9C.8 about uses of plants. These clips are all
only a couple of minutes.
How does all this relate to our patient?
Differentiation (Lower and Higher)
See above
Apparatus requirements
Some wilted flowers and some sat in water, for higher ability celery that has been sat in
dye to show xylem, bioviewers and slides on plant structure or microscopes.
PowerPoint on herbal medicine, Year 9 video vault, optional worksheets on plant
structure, optional card sort activity.
Literacy/Numeracy content:
Keywords:
ICT Content:
Suggested rich questions
Misconceptions
Plants get bigger by eating the soil