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Science - Y5 – God’s Amazing Matters – week 3 suggestions

Create a mind map to show the properties of wood. Add branches of your own.

Cell walls are made
up of cellulose.
½ billion cells are in Knots are seen
1 cubic metre of wood. where branches form.

Knots can
weaken the
wood.
Trees are made
up of cells.

These Trees also
are removed contain gums,
by dissolving. waxes, oils,
fats, starches,
resins, tannins.
A tree’s age can be
calculated by the
annular rings.
The direction
of the fibres
is seen in
There are softwoods the grain.
and hardwoods.

Softwoods are
coniferous Hardwoods
trees. have broad
leaves.

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