Lesson video

Hi everyone.

I'm Ms. Harris.

Welcome to today's science lesson.

How are you doing today? Good.

I'm glad to hear it.

Now, today, we're going to be learning about the differences between deciduous and evergreen tree.

So two types of trees we are going to be learning about today.

At the end of the lesson, I'm going to be asking you to identify what tree you can see in my background.

So you might see something behind me.

What could it be? What type of tree? You're going to tell me.

So keep it in your head and tell me at the end of today's lesson.

So we are going to be looking at two types of trees today.

We're going to be learning the facts about deciduous trees and facts about evergreen trees.

Then I'm going to set you off on a tree observation at the end of the lesson, and we're going to do our end of lesson quiz.

For today's lesson, you will need a piece of paper or a exercise book, a pencil, a coloured pen or pencil, and most importantly, your brain.

If you need to go and get any of these things, you can pause the video and go and get them now.

Okay, well done.

So today we are scientists, and we are studying living things, which are plants and trees.

So what is a scientist? Now, a scientist is a person who studies the world around us, including things living and non-living.

So my pen is not a living thing.

It doesn't breathe, it doesn't eat, it doesn't produce waste or reproduce.

It can't communicate.

So these are all the things that's a living thing might do.

Let's do our star words.

So we're going to do something called my turn then your turn.

I'm going to say it, then you're going to say it.

Ready? Star words, star words, star words.

Your turn.

Bark, deciduous, evergreen, trees, branches, trunk.

Should we do it faster? Ready? Evergreen, trees, bark, branches, deciduous, trunk.

Good job.

Now, over the last few weeks, we have been looking at our bean plants that we planted in lesson one.

Now don't worry.

If you didn't plant a kidney bean in less than one, you can draw a picture of my bean plant.

So this is what might be in part looks like at the moment.

It looks very different to what it looked like last week.

Now, if you have a bean plant, I would like you to go and get it, and you're going to draw a picture of it.

Otherwise, if you don't have one, you're going to draw a picture of my one, and we're going to discuss the changes to my plant.

So pause the video and do that now.

Great job, well done.

So you can see that my bean plant has now grown lots of roots coming down the bottom, and you can see that the stem has slowly pushed its way out of the coat of the seed.

And eventually it will grow up and up and up, and it will push its way out of the soil.

So we've got lots of roots that are growing in the soil.

Is it not exciting? If you have a bean plant, what does your bean plant look like? Great.

Now, let's look at two different types of trees.

So first, we've got evergreen trees.

Evergreen trees do not lose their leaves.

So in the winter, you might often see them potentially covered in snow or in frost when it's really cold because they don't lose their leaves.

So they look the same all the time, pretty much.

Unless they grow, that's the only time when they really change a lot compared to trees called deciduous, what are they called? Good.

Deciduous tree, sorry.

Deciduous trees lose their leaves in the autumn, and their leaves regrow in the spring time.

So again, in the winter, you might see these trees without any leaves.

So you might just see all of their branches and the trunk of the tree.

So there'll be really obvious whether they're just seduce or evergreen.

If they're evergreen, in the winter, they will have all of their leaves, whereas deciduous trees in the winter, they won't have any leaves.

So it'd be really clear, which one is which.

So here, I've got a picture of a deciduous tree and an evergreen tree.

I would like you to pause the video and draw a picture of each one of these trees and then label it at the bottom.

So pause the video and do that now.

Well done.

Now pick up your coloured pencil.

We are going to tick or fix our answers.

We're going to make sure that they're right.

So here we've got a deciduous tree, which is this one here.

And then on the other side, we've got an evergreen tree.

So if you wrote those down and they're correct, give yourself a tick.

If you didn't, don't worry, put a nice neat line through it and write the correct word above it.

If you need to correct it, you can pause the video and do that now.

Well done.

So now let's look at some facts about deciduous trees.

So deciduous trees lose their leaves in the autumn, and they will regrow in the spring time.

And often in the summertime, they have big green and bushy leaves all the way around them.

So they're really beautiful in the summertime.

But in the winter, they lose all their leaves, and there are no leaves on them in the wintertime because they fell off in autumn.

So, here you can see, this is what the leaves will look like in the autumn.

Because deciduous trees, their leaves will change coloured to often yellows, browns, and reds and orange colours.

And they will eventually fall off and drop to the floor.

That means for the winter, there are no leaves on the trees.

And on the other side, you can see lots of different types of deciduous tree leaves, because deciduous tree leaves are very different to evergreen tree leaves.

Because they are flat, they change colour in the autumn time, they have little veins running through them.

So if you look really carefully, you can see all the little lines or the veins going through the leaf.

They're also really thin and they can fall off the trees.

So let's look really carefully.

Can you see all the little veins in the leaves? And they're often different shapes, aren't they? But they're all deciduous tree leaves.

Well done.

So here is deciduous tree leaf.

You can see even clearer now all the veins that are going through the leaf, it's really thin.

And you can see here that it's got a really pointy part to leaf.

So it's a got a very lovely shape to it.

Can you draw a picture of this leaf into your book? And I would like you to label some parts.

So we know that they're thin.

So if we go back in, we know that they're thin, they're flat, they can fall off the trees, change colour, and they have veins running through them.

So can you write two labels around your deciduous tree leaf and draw a picture of it.

So pause the video, do that now.

Great job.

Well done.

So now we're going to write down some facts.

So you might have written some labels, just some short words next to your picture, but now we're going to write some full sentences.

So here's the first one.

I would like you to write the sentence and fill in the gap, and choose a word that's at the bottom here to best fit the sentence.

So I'm going to read it.

Ready? Deciduous tree leaves change colour in the mmm? So I would like you to write the sentence and choose a word from the bottom to fit in that sentence.

Pause the video and do that now.

Well done.

So we are going to check our answers at the end, because I've got another sentence for you.

So this says, deciduous trees lose their mmm, each year.

What do they use? Write the sentence down and fill in the gap.

Pause the video now.

Well done.

And the last one.

Their leaves are mmm and have mmm running through them.

So this one got two words.

Can you pause the video, write the sentence and fill in the gaps.

Now pick up your coloured pen or pencil, we're going to check our answers.

So here, deciduous tree leaves change colour in the autumn.

Give yourself a tick if you wrote autumn.

Deciduous tree leaves lose their leaves each year.

Give you some a tick if you wrote leaves.

Then we've got, their leaves are flat and have veins running through them.

If you wrote flat and if you wrote veins, give yourself a tick.

Now, if you've got any of those wrong, any of the pink ones that have got here wrong, you can pause the video now and put a neat lines through it and write the correct words about.

So pause the video now.

Excellent work.

Well done.

So here are some types of deciduous trees.

We've got oak, maple and birch.

So the birch leaf is the leaf that we drew earlier in the lesson.

So we can see the oak leaf here, have got lots of round parts to their leaves, you can really see them when you go for a walk.

They're really obvious that they are oak leaves, because they're very different to other ones.

The maple leaves in the middle, you can see here, they've got very pointy parts to their leaves as well.

And they often haven't got many round parts to their leaf compared to the birch leaf on the other side, which is a round shape and it has one point on the leaf.

So they're very different, aren't they? And they will all change colour and fall off the trees in the autumn time.

So now I would like you to draw and label two deciduous trees leaves.

So you can choose two that you would like to draw here, or you can draw all of them if you're feeling like you would like a challenge.

So pause the video and do that now.

Great job.

Now we're going to look at some facts about evergreen trees.

But so far, our brain is full of knowledge about deciduous tree leaves.

So let's take a moment, take a deep breath ready.

And breath out.

Because we are going to make space in our brain for the evergreen trees.

Let's do one more deep breath, breathe in.

Hold it, hold it, and breath out.

Did you do that? Our brain has got lots of space to learn about evergreen trees.

So evergreen trees are trees which do not lose their leaves.

They might fall off if the wind blows, but they don't lose their leaves like deciduous tree leaves.

So here are some examples of what the evergreen tree leaves look like.

So evergreen tree leaves are often quite spiky, are quite thick.

And you can see here that there are lots of little stems of them.

So we can't see the veins running through them because they're not flat like deciduous tree leaves.

And often they're quite spiky as well.

A holly tree is a type of evergreen tree, and they are really spiky to touch.

So be really careful.

So I would like you to draw a picture of an evergreen tree leaf.

So we can see her they're spiky, they're thick, and they are green.

So they don't fall off the trees or change colour.

So pause the video and do that now.

Well done.

Let's write some facts about evergreen trees.

So here, again, we've got the words at the bottom that you can choose to fill in the gap of the sentences.

So the first sentence.

Evergreen trees do not mmm their leaves.

They do not mmm their leaves.

Can you pause the video, write that sentence down and fill in the gaps.

Well done.

We will check our answers at the end.

So the next one, ever green leaves are mmm.

So choose the one from the bottom.

Pause the video, do that now.

Great job.

The last one.

Their leaves are mmm and mmm like needles.

So choose some words and fill in the gaps.

Well done.

So let's check.

So evergreen trees do not lose their leaves.

So pick up your coloured pencil and give yourself a tick if you wrote that correctly.

So they do not lose their leaves.

Evergreen tree leaves are small.

They're really small.

Give yourself a tick if you wrote small.

And then, their leaves are thick and narrow like needles.

So they're really spiky on the end.

So they're really thick, but they're really narrow.

So they're not flat like a deciduous tree leaves.

So give yourself a tick if you wrote thick, and give yourself a tick if you wrote narrow.

You can pause the video and correct any of your answers if you got them wrong.

Well done.

So here are three types of evergreen trees.

So I've already mentioned holly at the top of that, which is quite spiky to touch it.

So be really careful if you haven't find a holly tree.

Then we've got a fir tree down here.

Now, fir trees are often trees which you might have in your house at Christmas time.

So they're the types of trees that we use for our Christmas trees if you have a natural one, or if you have one that's not real, sometimes they are in the shape of fir tree as well.

And then on the other side, we've got eight cedar tree leaves.

You can see they're really thick, but they're really narrow.

But they're not very sharp.

So they're okay if you would like to touch them.

In your books, I would like you to draw and label to evergreen tree leaves.

So you can pause video and choose two that you would like to draw here.

Well done.

We're nearly at the end of the lessons.

Great job.

So now I'm going to just set you at tiny bits of homework, but you can choose whether you want to do it or not.

It's going to be a fun task.

So I would like you to go and see how many trees you can find.

You are going to: One, go outside.

Two, to look for some trees.

And three, draw a picture of the leaves.

I would like you to decide by looking at the leaves, whether they are evergreen or deciduous trees.

So you don't need to tell me or find out what the tree is.

So whether it's oak or maple or holly.

I would like you to find out whether it's evergreen or whether it's a deciduous by looking at the leaves, okay? 'Cause that will tell you whether it's an evergreen or whether it's deciduous, okay? And then decide, is evergreen or deciduous.

So I've said that.

Now it's time for our end of lesson quiz, where you can show off everything you know about these two types of trees that we have learned about today.

Your brain is full of knowledge.

I'm sure it's must feel like it's going to explode with new things that you've learned.

But before we go, can you tell me what tree is in my background? So what are these that you can see here hanging? They are lemons, what are they called.

Because this is a lemon tree and it produces fruit, which you can see here.

Now, lemon trees often they won't grow here in the United Kingdom because they need a really hot climate to grow.

So I think this is a picture from Italy, where these lemon trees are growing.

so well done.

You've worked super hard today as usual because you've always worked really hard.

I hope you have a great rest of your day, and I will see when we carry on learning about plants.

Bye.