Year 5 - Science
Selective breeding of plants (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability)
Reproduction and life cycles: plants
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Unit Summary
his unit explores the life process of reproduction in plants and animals. It focuses on planning scientific enquiries, measuring with precision, recording complex data, and using test results to make predictions. Emphasis is on presenting findings, and evaluating scientific evidence.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to describe how selective breeding can be used to create improved plants.
Key Notes
- Pollination is the transfer of pollen from one flower to the stigma of another flower.
- Plant offspring grown from seeds will have a combination of characteristics of their two parent plants.
- Selective breeding involves producing offspring from parents that have desirable characteristics.
- Selective breeding can create new varieties of good crops, with higher resistance to pests and disease.
- Artificial pollination can be done by hand to produce offspring with desired characteristics.
Vocabulary To Learn
- pollination: Pollination is the transfer of pollen from one flower to the stigma of another flower.
- parent plant: A parent plant is a plant that has reproduced and created offspring.
- characteristics: A characteristic is a feature or property of something that we can use to help identify it.
- offspring: Living things create offspring when they reproduce.
- artificial pollination: Artificial pollination is carried out by humans, and does not require the help of animals, such as insects, or the weather.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils may not understand how plants of the same species can vary from one another and assume they are all the same because the differences are not obvious.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the scientific idea in this lesson using two key points.
Pollination is the transfer of pollen from one flower to the stigma of another flower. Plant offspring grown from seeds will have a combination of characteristics of their two parent plants.
2. Define this scientific word and use it in context. 'pollination'
Pollination is the transfer of pollen from one flower to the stigma of another flower. Include the word in a full scientific explanation, not as a single label.
3. Correct this common scientific misunderstanding.
Mistake: Pupils may not understand how plants of the same species can vary from one another and assume they are all the same because the differences are not obvious. Correction: Explain that plants can have different characteristic within a species, such as size and shape of fruit or colour of flowers.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Asexual reproduction in plants Study Guide
- Conservation using seed banks (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- Dangers to pollinators (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
- Parts of a flowering plant and what they do Study Guide
- Plant life cycles Study Guide
- Plant reproduction from cuttings Study Guide
- Plants from cuttings Study Guide
- Pollinators (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
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