Unidad 4: GROWING LIKE PLANTS

¿Qué tienen que saber?

 Diferenciar entre las plantas de hoja caduca y de hoja perenne.

 Conocer la forma de reproducción de las plantas (flores, frutos y semillas).
 Identificar y explicar la diferencia entre las plantas con flor y las plantas sin
flor.
 Identificar las partes de una planta y de un árbol.
 Conocer las diferentes fases del ciclo del agua.
 Identificar los principales fenómenos atmosféricos y los diferentes aparatos de
medida que recogen datos de estos fenómenos.
 Saber interpretar sencillos mapas del tiempo.
 Utilizar el presente simple y continuo para formular frases sencillas acerca de
la naturaleza.

Contents

NATURAL SCIENCE

Plants are living things. Plants are born, they grow, they reproduce and they
die. Plants need water, air, sunlight, soil and warmth to grow well.

PARTS OF THE PLANT

Plants have leaves, roots, a stem and flowers. The roots take in the water from the
soil. The stem supports the plant. The leaves take in air and sunlight. Plants make
their own food.
Seeds grow inside fruit. Fruit protects the seeds. Animals eat fruit and throw the
seeds away. New plants grow from the seeds.

Some plants have seeds that blow away in the wind. Some plants have seeds that
are moved by animals. Humans also need to plant seeds to obtain food, to reforest,
etc.

TYPES OF PLANTS

There are many different plants all around us. There are:

Trees are plants with a thick, hard stem called a trunk. Trees have branches,
leaves and twigs. Some trees have flowers and fruit. Trees have a lot of roots.
Deciduous trees lose their leaves in autumn. Evergreen trees have green leaves all
year.

Bushes are plants with a lot of stems and leaves.

Grass is a plant. It is thin and bendy.

SOCIAL SCIENCE

WATER

You can find water in three different forms: liquid, solid and gas. Water is a liquid,
ice is a solid and water vapour is a gas.
Water turns to water vapour when it is hot. Water turns to ice when it is very cold.
Water is a liquid at room temperature.

THE WATER CYCLE

The water cycle is a continuous process of evaporation, condensation,

precipitation and collection. When it is hot, water from the sea evaporates. The
water vapour condenses into tiny drops and forms clouds. When the clouds are cold,
it rains or snows. The rain or snow falls into the sea. This is the water cycle.

ALL ABOUT AIR

Air is a mixture of gases. We cannot see air but it is all around us. People and
animals breathe oxygen from the air. All living things need air to live.

ENGLISH

VOCABULARY - Parts of a plant (partes de una planta): leaf /leaves

(hoja/hojas), stem (tallo), roots (raíces), flowers (flores), fruit
(vocabulario)
(fruto), seed (semilla), bud (yema), node (nudo).
- Parts of a tree (partes de un árbol ): leaves (hojas), branches
(ramas), twigs (ramas pequeñas), fruit (frutos), roots (raíces),
trunk (tronco), crown (copa)
- More vocabulary (más vocabulario) : sunlight (luz solar), soil
(tierra), sand (arena), rock (piedras), salty wáter (agua salada),
evergreen (perenne), deciduous (caduca), thin (delgado), bendy
(flexible), thick (grueso)
- Common plants in Spain (plantas comunes de España): hol oak
(encina), oak (roble), chestnut tree (castaño), pine tree (pino),
olive tree (olivo), poppy (amapola), roses (rosas), daisy
(margarita), daffodil (narciso), carnation (clavel)
- Forms of water (formas del agua): water vapour (vapor de
agua), ice (hielo) and water (agua).
- Water cycle (ciclo del agua): evaporation (evaporación),
condensation (condensación), precipitation (precipitación),
collection (recolección)
- States of matter (estados de la materia): solid (sólido), liquid
(líquido) and gas (gaseoso).

GRAMMAR Expresión del tiempo: presente simple y presente continuo.

(Gramática)
“It grows” “It´s raining”

PHONETICS (Fonética) /ing/ sound

TRANSVERSAL Save water

CONTENTS
(Contenidos
transversales)

SOCIOCULTURAL Bambu in China

ASPECTS (Aspectos
socioculturales)
  Recursos web:

Plant videos and songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUBIQ1fTRzI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPqnYYI2Uq8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4AkT5WDSXg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO8hrqDuMmY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pD68uxRLkM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzIDuKVUlYk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6TLFZUC9gI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3St51F4kE8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-l-gsWOKzk

Games about plants:

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/plantsgrow.html

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/plantanimaldif.html

http://www.softschools.com/science/plants/plant_parts/

Water and air videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjZSMu2SXt4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gez2rmeCpfE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBBmdqti_Kg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C33WdI64FiY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY9HG8zUgOE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52wY4r66OVc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHW9GspGnYE

Games about water and air:

http://interactivesites.weebly.com/clouds--water-cycle.html

http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/averroes/centros-
tic/04005442/helvia/aula/archivos/repositorio/0/118/html/index.html
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/changing_state.swf