Take your Year 3 Plants science topic outdoors and have your children setting up investigations, playing games to support understanding and using their working scientifically skills (as well as various enquiry types) to bring their learning to life!
Deepen your children’s understanding of the functions of parts of a plant using this outdoor lesson. Your children will use large-scale art and science games to secure their knowledge.
Carry out an investigation into the requirements for plant life and growth with this outdoor lesson. Requiring minimal preparation, this activity will give your children the opportunity to see how requirements vary from plant to plant.
Combine children’s knowledge of soils with their knowledge of plants in this active and practical outdoor lesson that focuses on using your existing outdoor space to explore plant growth requirements.
Play games and get hands-on with this outdoor science lesson focusing on flowers and pollination, and deepen children’s scientific understanding by having them ask and answer questions about their observations.
The main activity of this outdoor lesson focuses on the ‘observing over time’ enquiry type, for your children to see the role flowers play in seed formation in your outdoor space, bringing out opportunity for discussion.
Utilising role-play and games that involve physical movement, this fun and creative lesson will have your children apply their scientific thinking to answer a question based on seed dispersal.