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Product and Processes ( Grade 3, Term4), Reference List:
Department of…
Product and Processes ( Grade 3, Term4)
Natural Science (NS)
What we get from plants (DBE 2011, p.57)
Key concept: According to the Department of Basic Education (2025, pp. 34-37) plants have a lot of benefits because they give us many kind of foods and help us to stay healthy. Plants consist of branches, leaves, stems and roots and they bear flowers, fruits and seeds.
Inquiry-based activity: Learners will observe images of different foods and then identify which foods in the pictures comes from plants. Then they will sort out the foods into groups and also explain how they know which food comes from a plant. I will ask them questions like, "What do you think will happen if we did not have plants to provide us with food?" Skills: Observation, Classifying, identify.
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Technology
Process - from sugar cane to sugar (South African Department of Basic Education ,2011, p.57)
Key concept: People are using different processing steps, tools and machines to turn sugarcane into sugar (Department of Basic Education, 2011, p. 57).
Inquiry base activity: The learners will observe pictures which shows how the sugar production takes place and then the learners must arrange the stages in the right order and also discuss how the sugarcane turn to sugar. Skills: Observing, Classifying, communication .
Process- from clay to brick (Department of Basic Education, 2011, p.57)
Key concept: Naude and Meyer (2025, p.153) explains that people use different materials and resources to create goods and tools. These materials are usually made from natural resources. During the clay production a variety of tools, machines, and different processing methods are used to transform clay into bricks.
Inquiry-based activity: Learners will look at the images in the life skills work book to investigate how the clay production happens and then learners must number the sentences in the correct order to show how bricks is created (Department of Basic Education, 2025, p.41). Skills: Observation, Classifying (sorting),
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