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Horse Chestnut Life-cycle Lesson Resource Pack plus PowerPoint

Horse Chestnut Life-cycle Lesson Resource Pack plus PowerPoint preview
Horse Chestnut Life-cycle Lesson Resource Pack plus PowerPoint preview
Horse Chestnut Life-cycle Lesson Resource Pack plus PowerPoint preview 2

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Lesson notes cover for a horse chestnut tree life cycle study, labeled KS1 Nature and Year 1 Science
Cover of the tree life cycle lesson notes
Contents for the tree study pack list teaching notes, vocabulary work, life cycle tasks, and display pictures
Contents and curriculum excerpts
Teacher introduction explains observing a horse chestnut tree across the year through visits, notes, and sketches
Introduction to the yearlong tree study
Teaching guidance outlines seasonal tree changes and suggests picture ordering, photo charts, and a nature diary
Seasonal background and record-keeping guidance
Teaching notes connect the tree study to math, English, art, and geography, followed by scientific inquiry skills
Cross-curricular extensions to the tree study
Autumn teaching notes suggest collecting, weighing, and planting conkers, plus examining and sketching leaves
Autumn activities and observation questions
Winter and spring teaching notes cover bare branches, sticky buds, bark rubbings, and watching a twig open indoors
Winter observations and spring bud study
Spring and summer teaching notes explore flowers, pollination, growing conkers, and how prickly cases protect seeds
Flower study followed by summer fruit observations
Four horse chestnut illustrations for the tree study show a flower cluster, a leaf, buds, and developing fruit
Four illustrations supporting the tree study
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About This Product

This pack gives you all the information you need at your fingertips to study the Horse Chestnut tree through each season.
It also includes:

For ages 5-6, it includes:

Teaching Notes

Cards to learn to read and spell words associated with science

work - Make a matching game and /or trace the words and draw.

The Life Cycle of the Horse Chestnut tree

Life cycle chart

Life-cycle pictures to order

Make a book about the Horse Chestnut tree

Life cycle ordering exercises on two levels

Pages to use for descriptive work in English - describe

a conker and its shell, describe a leaf.

Resources: Pictures to use for display/ordering/language work etc…

Pictures through the year annotated as per the book

Photos for display

Large pictures of the drawings for own use (subject

to T’s and C’s, see page 2)

What's Included

1 PDF with 48 pages and 1 PowerPoint

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