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If you haven’t heard about them just yet, we’re about to tell you more! Schools are able to sign up to and get involved with a number of fantastic investigations the BBC are running. The BBC have already had many investigations, those being on topics such as forces, feet and power. However, the next one they’re running, and their penultimate one, is on growth and living things and is taking place between March and April.
If you’d like to find out more about this newest investigation, simply visit the BBC’s Terrific Scientific website for further information.
To support your investigation on growth and living things though, we’ve put together some resources from EducationCity that are ideal to go alongside your lessons on it.
The content we’ve picked out is for EYFS to Key Stage 2 students, and comes in the form of Learn Screens, Activities, Topic Tools and more, so there’s quite a lot of resources to support your lessons. To find any of the resources, just type their ID number into Search on EducationCity.
Here are your resources for the BBC’s Terrific Scientific investigation on growth and living things…
EYFS
Activities
Flutter and Fly: #689 – Follow a butterfly through its natural life cycle.
Leap Frog: #690 – Learn the sequential stages of a frog’s life cycle.
Key Stage 1
Learn Screens
Pick a Tomato: #12775 – Understanding that all plants have roots, stem, leaves, flowers and fruit.
The Roots: #19960 – See how a plant grows from a seed.
Ready, Set, Grow!: #13246 – Learn about the life cycle of plants.
Lifecycle of a Bulb: #20082 – Observe the life cycle of a bulb, looking at different stages of its growth.
Activities
Pick a Tomato: #1447 – Identify plant parts: roots, stem, leaves, flowers and fruit.
Growing, Growing, Gone: #20171 – Students observe and describe the life cycle of a bulb, looking at different stages of its growth.
Granny’s Garden: #13242 – To consider how plants grow and change during the various stages in the life cycle.
Ready, Set, Grow!: #12257 – Answer questions about the life cycle of plants.
Granny’s Garden: #13256 – Decide what plants require to be able to grow properly.
Topic Tools
Grow a Plant: #1911 – Explore the effects of water, heat and light on the growth of a plant.
ThinkIts
Different from a baby: #13678 – How is being a baby different to being 7 years old?
Different from an adult: #13817 – In what ways is an adult different from a 7 year old?
Life cycles: #14061 – Manu is thinking of the life cycle of a frog. Can you complete the missing stages?
Getting older: #13862 – What do you think will happen to your body as you get older? Talk to a partner and think of some ideas.
Lower Key Stage 2
Learn Screens
Seed Feed: #12669 – Conditions a seed needs to germinate and grow into a healthy plant.
Granny’s Garden: #12670 – Understanding what plants need to help them grow from seeds into healthy plants.
Flower Power: #12625 – An overview of different parts of plants and what they do to help the plant grow.
Soil: #12853 – Understanding that soil from different places will have different properties, such as colour, texture and particle size, and that this can affect what grows well in it.
Activities
Granny’s Garden: #922 – Decide what plants require to be able to grow properly.
Seed Feed: #916 – Consider conditions that might affect germination.
Topic Tools
Grow a Plant: #1911 – Explore the effects of water, heat and light on the growth of a plant.
ThinkIts
Observing growth: #15027 – If you were carrying out an experiment to find out how quickly plants grow, how could you record your observation? Talk to a partner about your ideas.
Upper Key Stage 2
Learn Screens
Green Fingers: #12626 – An explanation of the different parts of a flower and what part they have to play in the reproductive cycle of the plant.
Grow Up: #25591 – Keywords used when describing the stages of human life.
All Changes: #14946 – See the basic changes in the stages of life as humans develop from birth to old age.
Activities
Green Fingers: #574 – Name the parts of the flower and understand the different function of each plant.
Search for Life: #1541 – Introduction to cells. Understand that living things are made of one or more cells.
Inheritance: #18864 – Some characteristics of living things are caused by environmental factors and some are passed on from parent to child through genetic inheritance.
ThinkIts
Changing humans: #15031 – In what ways do humans change as they get older?
All about plants: #14122 – Manu is investigating whether plants grow better in some soils than others. If you were to carry out an experiment on plants, what sort of things could you investigate?
Organisms and environments: #14082 – In what ways do animals adapt to the environment in which they live?
Form and function: #14055 – Look at this duck’s feet. Why do you think they are formed in that way?
Word Search Topic Tool
Another super helpful resource to support your lessons is the Word Search Topic Tool. It’s available in the Science module for all year levels. It lets you add the words you want into a word search (so you can add your words on growth and living things here) and then you can either print it out for your students to complete individually or do it as a class on the interactive whiteboard. Perfect!
Simply log in to EducationCity to see all the resources for yourself!
Don’t forget to check out our video on some of the resources above too.