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Parts of a Plant

CONCEPTUAL
ScienceOrganisms & Life Processes|Ages 5—6|ID: mt_xT6jPzyj92

Identify and describe the basic structure of common flowering plants (roots, stem, leaves, flowers) and trees (roots, trunk, branches, leaves)

Mastery Evidence

  • Label roots, stem, leaves, and flowers on a diagram of a flowering plant
  • Name the main parts of a tree: roots, trunk, branches, leaves
  • Explain that roots take in water and leaves catch sunlight

Assessment Prompt

“If you pick a flower from the garden, can [child] point to the roots, stem, leaves, and petals and say what each part does?”

Curriculum Standards1 alignment

Y1.Sci.P.2The national curriculum in England
Identify and describe plant structure

identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees

Science · Key Stage 1

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