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Plant Explorers KS2 RHS Wisley lesson plan National curriculum; Science, Geography Learning objectives Structure Introduction: Welcome and Health & Safety Children will be able to: Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth Recognise that living things are grouped in a variety of ways. Explain how plants are adapted to suit their environment in different climate zones. Understand key aspects of plant life in different climate zones. Discuss asexual/sexual reproduction in some plants Assessment questions Can you explain what plants need in order to survive? Explain that we are going to think about different habitats and what they are like. Give each group a set of cards with the words and pictures for drought, water, light, competition and shade. Sort into those that apply to the rainforest and those that apply to the desert. Ask each group to explain their thinking. Activity 1 Give each group some pictures of plants. Have a selection of items – e.g. ladder, drain pipe, wax candle, tin of pins, umbrella. Ask children to pick an item and each group to choose a plant picture that is linked to it in some way. Groups to explain their choices. Use this to discuss adaptations e.g. drip tips, waxy leaves, spines, white hairs, climbers. Activity 2 Visit the Glasshouse and in small groups led by school staff and helpers, look for plants with different adaptations – drip tips, shredded leaves, epiphytes, climbers, dark underneath, white colour, spines, waxy leaves (or a selection of these). Find examples, record some with name, zone in which it’s found and its adaptation. Schools may chose to focus on the tropical zone only. Activity 3 Propagate a tropical plant to take back to school, and learn about real plant explorers. Plenary Can you explain what adaptations plants need in order to survive? Resources: Sets of pictures of habitat features and plants Selection of plants showing adaptations. Selection of artefacts e.g. pins, umbrella, ladder, wax candle, Recording sheets Plants, pots and labels. Differentiation: Mainly by outcome but also: More able - Explain in more depth their reasoning including adaptations not discussed in activity 2. Less able – with adult support explain their thinking. Key Vocabulary: Plant adaptations, habitat, similar, different, drip tips, epiphytes, leaves, spines, roots, stems, climate zone, asexual/sexual reproduction, cloning RHS Education and Learning, RHS Garden Wisley, Woking, Surrey, GU23 6QB [email protected] 01483 212432 Charity No: 222879/SCO38262 RHS Education and Learning, RHS Garden Wisley, Woking, Surrey, GU23 6QB [email protected] 01483 212432 Charity No: 222879/SCO38262