KS1 SCIENCE LESSON PLANS
FRUITS AND SEEDS
TERM: MARCH HALF TERM
OBJECTIVES
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
By the end of the lesson pupils
should be able to:
Children need to know that in the world around
them, there are living and non-living things
• Understand the life cycle of plants
• Know that fruit contains seeds
EQUIPMENT AND RESOURCES
• Know how to plant and look after seeds
• Paper
KS1 SCIENCE CURRICULUM
SC2: 3c To know that seeds grow into flowering
plants
SC2: 3a To recognise that plants need light and water
to grow
• Drawing and writing equipment
• A variety of fruits, e.g. melon,
apples, strawberries, grapes, oranges. Cut open fruit
carefully
so the seeds are visible
• Classical music
• The apple life cycle visual (page 3)
OTHER CURRICULUM LINKS
• Paper plates and split pins if wanting to include a
Design Technology link
Art and Design: 2b Try out tools and techniques and
apply these to materials and processes, including
drawing
EVERY CHILD MATTERS
PHSE: 3a How to make simple choices that improve
their health and wellbeing
• Enjoy and achieve
Music: 5b Responding to a range of musical and nonmusical starting points
Eco-Schools topics:
• Make a positive contribution
• School grounds
WHAT TO DO
HOMEWORK
Starter
Children to discuss their favourite fruit with a partner
– why is it their favourite?
Create a class list of fruits on the whiteboard.
Children to collect different types of seeds to share
with the class or even try to plant.
Main teaching phase
1. Lay out plates of fruit on each table: melon, apples,
strawberries, grapes, oranges. Can we see seeds in
these fruits? Ask children to take out some of the
seeds. Are all the seeds the same size?
2. Ask the children why there is a seed inside this
apple.
3. Explain to children that the seed is part of the
apple’s life cycle.
4. Illustrate on the board how a seed turns into an
apple (page 3).
5. Children to make a cycle wheel to show the life
cycle of an apple (optional: make a cycle wheel
using
two plates and a split pin for Design Technology
links).
6. Look up the March entry in the Growing Planner
(available at www.morrisons.co.uk/letsgrow).
Plant sweet pea and tomato seeds outside in the
school garden. Continue harvesting as necessary
and continue to weed.
Extension
Draw pictures of sweet pea and tomato seeds and
the fruits they will grow into.
Plenary
Recap the life cycle of the plant. Play classical music,
starting off at a low volume. Ask children to make
themselves small to represent a seed. As the volume
increases, they should grow. When they hear the
music suddenly mute, they represent the seed again.
Then the cycle can continue. This can be played as
a game like musical statues or “musical plants”! The
last class member to become the seed will be “out”.
This can continue until there is a winner.