1. True or False?! Write numbers 1 to 7 into the back of your book.
Listen to each statement and decide whether it is true or false.

2. The Green Machine Lesson Objectives
C/W
Date:…………………..
The Green Machine
Lesson Objectives
To describe the structure of the leaf.
To explain how the leaf structure is adapted to its function.
Success Criteria
Be able to draw the leaf structure
Be able to carry out the practical to look at a leaf
Define functions

3. What part of the
plant makes food
for the plant?

4. Leaves

5. This process is called ….
Photosynthesis is a chemical process that plants use to make their food (glucose) using energy from the sun.
Where does this occur?
LEAVES
Leaves then use this food to generate other substances!

6. Leaf Structure

9. Leaf Challenge! Make a model of the leaf: Cut around the black line.
Label the different layers of the leaf using the worksheet ‘Structure of a leaf’.
Match the letters to each other.
Glue your leaf model together.
Glue your worksheet into your book.

11. Palisade Cell

12. Practical Time!

13. Now do exactly the same but the underneath of the leaf!
Take a leaf
Paint clear nail varnish on the top of the leaf
Let it dry
Take the selotape and stick the tape to the film of the nail varnish
Then peel the selotape off, which will peel off the nail varnish impression.
Now stick the selotape to a microscope slide
Look and see!
Now do exactly the same but the underneath of the leaf!

14. 1.Draw the slide 2.Describe what you see
Leaf Structure Draw your observations into a box and describe what you can see underneath your drawing.
Leaf Top
1.Draw the slide
2.Describe what you see
Leaf underneath
Extension Question:
How many stomata can you see on the top and the bottom?

17. What is a microscope?

18. What can we see?

19. Palisade Cell

20. What can we see?

22. Activities
Leafy Matter 1
The parts of the leaf

23. Leaf structure and function
C/W
Date:…………………..
Leaf structure and function
Lesson Objectives
To describe the structure of the leaf.
To explain how the leaf structure is adapted to its function.
Success Criteria
Be able to draw the leaf structure
Be able to carry out the practical to look at a leaf
Define functions

24. Plenary

25. Memory Game!