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CURRICULUM ACTIVITIES Art Press leaves and flowers to make pictures Pencil sketches of flower parts - stamens, veins, calyx Paint terra-cotta pots. Use tempera or acrylic paint and varnish Complete still life arrangements Design wrapping/wall paper using flower patterns Use a range of seeds (pulses) to create designs Study flower fairy paintings and create your own pictures Visit a park or garden and look at the effects of complementary and opposing colours in the plantings. Use the opportunity to make coloured paintings of a mass of flowers in a pointillism style. Maths Measure the growth of plants with conventional or non-conventional tools Sort shapes of seeds or petals Make a tessellating pattern with seed, flower or leaf designs Record insects visiting a flower over a given period of time Complete graphs of most common colour or types of flower in gardens at school or at home. 12 IT'S A PLANT'S LIFE CURRICULUM ACTIVITIES English Make up a crossword, with clues and a grid using key plant words Explain how to grow plants from seed using diagrams and short sentences Poetry - shape poem, cinquain, acrostic, hiku, or free-shape A description of a garden or a flower A newspaper article about a unique plant or garden area Describe what needs to happen to change one pea into lots of peas Design an advertisement to invite bees, butterflies and birds to visit a flower Make a list of all the plants we eat. Then divide them into ones which are a seed, leaf, flower or stem. Technology/Design A flower to attract bees A seed disposal capsule And make environmentally friendly identification tags for gardens A gardening tool that can dig, rake and make holes in the ground An insect or bird to pollinate a plant A way of keeping the rain and wind off your prize flowers A way of keeping slugs and snails away from plants using recycled materials. HESE T Y TR O S L A D L U YOU CO f plants wth stages o mme Mime the gro gn the progra si e d to ts n e ud er show.... st Have a flow n. and invitatio IT'S A PLANT'S LIFE 13 Student Activities 14 PLANT SCAVENGER HUNT Find someone who... Has a vegetable garden at home Eats root vegetables Can name an insect that eats from flowers Has climbed a tree Can name a seed people eat Can name two things plants need to grow Can name a plant they eat the leaves of Has planted a seed Knows the name of the colourful part of a flower Knows the name of the green part of a plant Can name three fruits with seeds inside Has been in a forest IT'S A PLANT'S LIFE 15 Plant needs Draw pictures and label all of the things this plant needs to help it grow. 16 IT'S A PLANT'S LIFE PLANT PUZZLE Cut out and arrange the pictures to make a plant. Now cut and paste these words correctly onto your plant picture. root stem flower leaf fruit IT'S A PLANT'S LIFE 17 WE EAT PLANTS Cut and paste the food pictures to the correct box. seeds flowers fruit leaves stems roots 18 IT'S A PLANT'S LIFE The life cycle of a plant Cut out and arrange the pictures in the correct order. Copy these labels next to the correct picture: flower, tree, seedling, seed, fruit. IT'S A PLANT'S LIFE 19 FLOWERS TO FRUIT Cut out and arrange the pictures in the correct order to see the flower change into a pear. The flower opens. Bees visit to collect nectar. Pollen sticks to their bodies and is carried from flower to flower. The pear is ripe and ready to eat. It has seeds inside that may grow into new pear trees. The pear fruit is growing. It is green and unripe. The flower dies and the petals begin to fall. A little pear begins to grow. Here is a bud of a pear flower. All the petals have fallen. The pear continues to grow. 20 IT'S A PLANT'S LIFE FLOWER PARTS Label the parts of the flower - petal, ovary, anther, stigma, calyx Match the part of the flower with it's correct function. sticky to collect pollen petal stigma encloses the bud anther where the seeds grow brightly coloured to attract insects ovary calyx where the pollen is made IT'S A PLANT'S LIFE 21 I SAY, I SAY WHAT HAVE WE GOT HERE Early explorers, scientists and botanists didn’t have cameras to record their findings so they carefully wrote and made detailed drawings of their discoveries. They noted every tiny feature about the plant or animal and the environment where it was found. Instructions Imagine you are a botanist searching an unexplored area of the school grounds. You come across a plant no-one else has spotted before. You say… “I say, I say, what have we got here?” Carefully sketch and describe every detail of the plant What time of day did you find it? What was the weather like? How did you come across this ‘mysterious’ plant? What colour are the flowers? How does it feel? Does it have a smell? How big? How small? What else is growing nearby? Give it a name. Yes, go on, make one up! When you’ve finished give your description to someone else and ask them to locate the plant. t is? is n a t o b a t a h w t life. w tany’, or plan Do you kno cuses on ‘bo ho fo row and a scientist w , how they g d re tu c A botanist is ru d st umans starte w plants are o H h . y ts d n u la st p y to e Th nown needed nd diseases k when people o g a rs a e y reproduce, a f al use. thousands o had medicin ts r n o la s, p u g o n in o y is d stu le, po nts were edib to learn if pla 22 IT'S A PLANT'S LIFE PLANT POLLINATORS Read the clues to find out who and what pollinate plants. I am yellow and black, but can also be brown I fly between lots of flowers I collect pollen I have special collecting bags on my legs I am a b_ _ I have wings I start my life as an egg d then a chrysalis I become a caterpillar an I feed on nectar I am a b_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Sometimes I make a loud noise You can feel me but can’t see me You can sometimes see the things I do I move the branches of trees and carry the pollen away I am the w _ _ _ I can fly k and tongue I have a long bea I love nectar I have feathers I don’t have feathers but I can fly Some people are scared of me but there is no need to be I am a native New Zealand mammal I come out at night I feed on pollen and nectar I am a b _ _ I am a b _ _ _ IT'S A PLANT'S LIFE 23 TRAVELLING SEEDS Instructions raw arrows to show the different ways seeds can travel. You can use words more than once. One D has been done for you. Things a seed can be or have spikes / hooks hairs light tiny wings juicy covering sticky coat waterproof Things that can happen to a seed float stick shake eaten fly pod explosion Write next to each seed how they will travel 24 IT'S A PLANT'S LIFE Things that can help this to happen wind water animals drying out