VGC Year 4Plants in action provides students with hands-on opportunities to:observe and compare dry and soaked bean seedsobserve and record the on-going process of the germination of a bean seedexplore the parts of a flower and consider which are required for pollinationobserve fruits and the seeds inside them and consider the relationship between flowers and fruitsStudents apply their new learning by:planning and conducting an investigation into the factors that affect plant growthLinking science with literacyIn the Primary Connections approach, students are supported to create representations that draw on and strengthen their literacy development. In Plants in action, students represent and explain their understanding about how living things have life cycles, by creating these representations:Cross sectionFactual textLabelled diagramProcedural textData tableTimelineTWLH chartWord wall