• Quick retrieval from earlier learning (Pollination and seed dispersal). Students answer on mini whiteboards.
• Show answers together and note who needs support in the main task.

1. How are the seeds of this plant mainly spread: thistle? (wind / animals / water / exploding pods) → windPrompt: Are the seeds light and fluffy, hooked or tasty, able to float, or in a pod?
2. Why do many flowers have bright petals and a sweet smell? (to scare animals away / to keep warm / to attract insects that carry pollen / to take in water) → to attract insects that carry pollenPrompt: Which visitors do flowers want?
3. Which plant's seeds are mainly spread by wind? (broom pods / burdock burrs / cherries / thistle) → thistlePrompt: Think about the shape of each seed or fruit.

• Bring in a plant that has been kept in the dark next to one in the light, and ask what happened.
• Share the objective: Plant reproduction: seeds versus runners, bulbs, tubers and cuttings. Read the success criteria together.

• Work through the example out loud, saying why you do each step, not just what you do.
• Example: How is this new plant produced: a daffodil bulb splitting into new bulbs?
• Step 1: A new plant grows from part of one parent and is identical to it.
• Step 2: So the answer is: from part of one parent (asexual reproduction)
• Answer: from part of one parent (asexual reproduction)
• Pause after each step and ask a student to say what comes next.

• Do these together. Students try each step on whiteboards before you reveal it.
• Use the hints as prompts rather than giving the answer.

1. How is this new plant produced: beans sown in spring? (from seeds (sexual reproduction) / from part of one parent (asexual reproduction)) → from seeds (sexual reproduction)Prompt: Did it come from a seed, or from a piece of one plant?
2. Why do farmers plant pieces of potato instead of potato seeds? (Each piece with an "eye" grows into a plant just like the parent, and it is quicker. / Potato seeds are poisonous to soil. / Potatoes are not plants. / Potatoes have no flowers.) → Each piece with an "eye" grows into a plant just like the parent, and it is quicker.Prompt: A potato is a tuber: a swollen underground stem.

• Students work on the student sheet. Circulate and check the first two answers of every student early.
• Students who finish: write a question of their own for a partner, with the answer.

The 6 questions are on the student sheet below, with answers in the key.

• Two questions on their own. Sort answers into got it / nearly / not yet to plan the next lesson.

1. How is this new plant produced: an apple tree from a pip? (from seeds (sexual reproduction) / from part of one parent (asexual reproduction)) → from seeds (sexual reproduction)Prompt: Did it come from a seed, or from a piece of one plant?
2. True or false? Plants grown from cuttings are identical to the parent plant. (True / False) → TruePrompt: One parent or two? Seeds or plant parts?

Free online practice with hints and printable worksheets for this skill: eurekami.com/science/grade-5.