Science

Friends or Foes?
Term 1

Learning Intentions
1: I understand living things have Life Cycles.
2. Living Things depend on each other and the environment to survive through
food chains.

Tomato Troubles
LI: I will be able to describe the needs of a flowering plant.
I will be able to describe the reason for flowers.
I will describe the reason for fruit.
I will construct and sequence the life cycle of a tomato plant.

Tomato Troubles
Look at these tomatoes. Look like a
scientist.
Look at their shape, size, colour.
How do they taste? How are they eaten
and cooked?
What are your favourite types?
Have you tried to grow tomatoes? What
do you know about growing tomatoes?

Tomato Troubles
Why does a plant produce fruit?
Why does a plant produce flowers?
Are people the only ones who eat fruit?
What else eats fruit?
Share your responses to the questions.

How does it grow?

Cut out each of the images and
arrange and paste them into your
science journals to show how you think
a tomato plant grows. Add labels or any
other information needed.

How does it grow?

How did your life cycle compare?

Flowers and Bees

LI: I will explore the internal parts of a flower used in pollination.

Flowers and Bees

How do we know that a tomato is a fruit?
Do all fruit have their seeds on the
outside?
You are going to take a closer look at the
parts of a flower to work out why Andy
had flowers but no fruit on his tomato
plant

Flowers and Bees

In teams you will explore the crosssection of a flower.
Observe the flower and draw a cross
section of it. Discuss the purpose and
features of a cross section.

Cross Section of a Flower

Complete the worksheet

Pollination
Pollination is when pollen is transferred
from the male parts of the flower, the
anther, to the female part of the flower,
the stigma.
Once this happens fertilisation occurs
and a seed will grow.
How might the pollen grains transfer
from the anther to the stigma if they
cant move themselves?

The Private Life of

Plants (20-25 mins)

The Bees Knees - Learning Intentions

I will:
- explore the life cycle of a bee
- explore the parts of the bees involved in pollination
- explore why and how bees pollinate flowers.

The Bees Knees

Watch the Video.
What do you observe the bee doing?
What is happening to the legs of the bee as it
looks for nectar in the flower?
What are you wondering about?

Labelled Diagram of a Bee

Label the parts of a bee.

A Labelled Diagram

A Bee Pollinator
In learning teams you will make a
model of a bee and a flower to explore
how a bee pollinates a flower.

Bee Pollinator
Some flowers need pollen from other plants of the same species to pollinate
(cross-pollinate) while the flowers of other plants, such as tomato plants, use
their own pollen (self-pollinate). Ask students questions such as:
What happened when you put your bee inside other cups to collect nectar?
(Pollen from the different cups sticks to the bee and is taken to other cups.
This helps flowers that cross-pollinate.)
What happens if you shake the cup? Does the pollen move around the cup? Do
you think it would be easy for the pollen to reach the stigma if you shake the
cup? (Self-pollinating flowers like those on a tomato plant can be pollinated by
being shaken by the wind, the buzzing wings of a bee or even by people,
which might help the pollen reach the stigma.)

Bee Pollinator
Complete the following sentences:
Bees pollinate flowers because...
The parts of a bees body that make it suited to pollination are...
Bees and flowers have a special relationship because...
Scientists use models to...

Seed Detectives
I will
- explore the scientific definition of fruit
- investigate food preferences of ants
- observe the behaviour of ants and discuss how this behaviour is linked to
seed dispersal.

From flower to fruit

Read and complete the sheet

How does environment affect life cycles?

Ladybug Life Cycles

How do living things get energy to live?

How do living things get energy to live?

Why do Living Things Interact?

Symbiosis

Why do Living Things Interact?

Why do Living Things Interact?

What are Food Chains?

A food chain is a community of
organisms where each member is
eaten in turn by another member.

What are Food Chains?

Why are living things endangered?

In the past the survival of living things
was affected by natural changes such
as the ice age. Today, species are
more likely to be affected by changes
in their environment and loss of habitat
caused by human action.
Today around 5500 animal species and
as many as half the Earths plant
species are known to be threatened
with extinction.

Why are Living Things Endangered?

Endangered Living Thing Report

Resources

Website Protecting species (World Wildlife Fund)

http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/index.html

Website Animal conservation (National Geographic)

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/conservation/
?source=NavAniPhoto

Learning Intention

I will understand how Australian Indigenous and

non-indigenous people are working towards the
sustainability of the dugong and marine turtle
species.

Conservation of the Dugong and Marine Turtles

In groups of 4 you will create a powerpoint
addressing each of the Information cards
topics on Dugongs and marine turtles

The Dugong - The General Information

Dugong - Life Cycles

Dugong - An Endangered Animal

How to Help the Dugong

Marine Turtles General Information

Marine Turtle Life Cycle

Marine Turtle an Endangered Animal

How to Help Marine Turtles

How to make a seed head

file:///Users/kpodmore/Downloads/SC2Y004_ready_set_g
row/Resources/Video/How-to-make-seed-head.mp4

How a plant grows

Endangered Species
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