1. Science - Year 3/4A Spring 1
Living Things and their Habitats
A World of Living Things
Session 2
Teaching PowerPoint
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2. Think about how they are similar and how they are different.
The plant kingdom is a massive group of living things
Take some time to look at different plants
Think about how they are similar and how they are different.

3. What different plants did you see?
How were they different?
What did they all have in common?
They are green and they all use energy from the sun to make their own food from water and a gas in the air called carbon dioxide.

4. Discuss how you think the plant kingdom could be divided into smaller groups
Share your ideas with the rest of the class
Scientists have decided to group the plant kingdom into 4 groups

5. The first group are green plants that have no roots or flowers
The main plants in this group are mosses

6. The second group of green plants also have no flowers, they make spores instead of seeds which will grow into new plants
Ferns are in this group
These brown dots underneath the fern are full of tiny spores

7. The third group of plants make cones to hold their seeds
The third group of plants make cones to hold their seeds. They usually have needles instead of leaves. Conifers are an example of this group.

8. All plants that have flowers
The fourth and final group in the plant kingdom are flowering plants. This group has over a quarter of a million different kinds including:
All trees that aren’t conifers
Grasses – these have small flowers
All plants that have flowers
All plants that make fruits and vegetables

9. Your task today is to make the next page in your interactive book on living things.
It will be an amazing pop-up tree and garden with some exciting plant facts to fascinate your readers!

10. How to make a popup tree
1. Cut out your tree and fold it in half down the middle of the trunk. Also fold up the two small tabs at the bottom
2. Draw some tapering branches coming from the top of the trunk

11. 3. Colour in your tree.
It looks good if you use different shades of brown and green to look like bark and clumps of leaves.
Leave the two little tabs at the bottom unshaded.

12. 4. Next cut out your row of bushes and plants
4. Next cut out your row of bushes and plants. Fold it in half (see dotted line) and fold up the two tabs at the bottom.
Colour in the bushes to look like flowers and vegetables in a garden. Use brown to fill in the spaces around them.
Once you have coloured in your tree and bushes, your teacher will show you how to stick them onto your piece of folded card so that they pop up.

13. You will also need to write a title and research some fascinating plant facts for your page.
There is a task sheet to help you.