Plants

Theme 1    : Learning About Living Things
Unit 2        : Plants
Lesson 1   : The External Features Of  Plants

Learning Objectives

Pupils should learn :

2.1 to observe and recognize external features of plants

2.2 that plants  can be grouped according to external features

Learning Outcomes

* Identify external features of a plants

* Make a list of the external features of a plants

Scienctific Skills

Recall, Observing, Classifying

Moral Values 

 Love nature and Thankful

SET INDUCTION

Let us to identify the external features of this balsam plant.

I like the  colour of its flower.

Its fruit is small. It is also green.

The leaf is green. Its surface is rough.

The stem is soft.

Let Us Learn

There are many diffrent kinds of plants. You can identify plants by looking at their external features.

 

Rose plant

A rose plant has beautiful flowers. It is a flowering plant. It has awoody stem. Its leaves are green and oval shaped. It also has thorns.

 

Bird's nest fern

A bird's nest fern does not have flowers. It is a non-flowering plant. It has long green leaves.

 

Water lily plant

A water lily plant has big leaves. The leaves are green. It also has flowers.

Papaya tree

A papaya tree has fruits. It has a soft stem. Its leaves are of irregular shapes.

 



Let Us Discuss

External Features Of  Plants

 Balsam plant

 Soft stem, flowering,  leaf are oval shaped and rough

 

 

 Maize plant

 Soft stem, flowering, leaf are long, rough and dull

 

 

Croton

 Woody stem, flowering, leaf are oval shaped, colourful and shiny

 

 

Ixora

 Woody stem, flowering, leaf are oval shaped and smooth

 

 

Fern

 Soft stem, non-flowering, leaf is irregular shape



Let Us Learn

 

Plants with similar external features can be put in the same group.

 

              Chrysanthemum plant                  

 

 Ixora plant
 These plants have flowers. They are flowering plants.

 

 

 

Fern

 

 

Bird's nest fern

 These plants have no flowers. They are non-flowering plants.

 

 

 

Cactus

 

 

 Banana tree

 These plants have soft stems.

 

 

Hibiscus

 

Rose plant

 These plants have woody stems.

  

Let Us Learn

Plants with similar external features can be put in the same group.

 

 



                                               Pandanus

 



 Yam plant
 These plants have leaves with smooth and shiny surface.

 

 

 

Sunflower plant

  

Balsam plant
 These plants have leaves with rough surface.

 

 

Daisy plant

  

Dumb cane

 These plants have oval shaped leaves.

 

 

Fern

  

Papaya tree

 These plants have leaves of irregular shapes.

 

 

 

Let Us Learn

Plants with similar external features can be put in the same group.

 

 

Pandanus

  

Yam plant

 These plants have leaves with smooth and shiny surfaces.

 

 

Sunflower plant

  

Balsam plant

 These plants have leaves with rough surfaces.

 

 

Daisy plant

 

Dumb cane

These plants have oval shaped leaves.

 

Fern

 

Papaya tree

These plants have leaves of irregular shapes.