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Primary Key Stage 2 - Full biology lesson on Plant Growth from Febo Learning. Students will identify all the things plants need to grow and stay healthy such as light, water, air, minerals and room to grow. They will then describe how plants use their roots and leaves to get some of these resources and look at how wilting and other problems can result if plants don’t get what they need.

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Learning Objectives

• Describe what plants need (light, water, air, minerals and room to grow)
• Explain why plants need these things and how they get them
• Discuss what will happen if a plant does not get enough of these things

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Lesson Includes

• Starter activity (retrieval practice/recall)
• Warm-up activity
• Introduction to the keywords
• Teach/Check/Practice (I do/We do/You do) cycles with tasks that demonstrate that the learning objectives have been met in student books
• Opportunities for assessment for learning
• Challenge extension work for higher ability students
• Worksheet (optional)
• Challenge worksheet (optional)
• SEND adaptations: the lesson is chunked to avoid working memory overload, blue background for Irlens, word banks are provided, text is broken up for dyslexia and a consistent format is followed for ASD. Group reading is differentiated in difficulty and keywords from previous lessons are reinforced. Learning from previous lessons is interlinked to help students catch up after absence.
• Careers are integrated into the lesson. Careers links have a gold star in the corner to identify them easily.

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This lesson is suitable for supply teaching and home learning (remote, distance or online). It is fully self-explanatory and can be delivered without specialist knowledge. Printed sheets are optional extras; the core lesson can be delivered without any printing or additional preparation. Opportunities are provided for students to develop their vocabulary, literacy and oracy skills.