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Plants for Primary Pupils Creativity Primary school classrooms usually are filled with drawings, posters or other products of children’s creativity. Perhaps one could add a few more ideas from the booklets? In the earlier booklets, Create a plant and Create a flower give opportunities to establish the structure (and function) of different parts of a plant and the vocabulary to use to describe this. As an offshoot from these activities, depending on the materials brought in for this activity, you can have discussions on sustainability and recycling. The later booklets toss in ‘Design a seed’ or ‘Design a seed packet’ (both from an imaginary plant ‘discovered’ on an expedition).
Figure 13 - Design a seed |
 Figure 12 - Create a plant |
| The final booklet promises a ‘Design and make a plant for a particular habitat’ as a way of linking into adaptations for particular habitats. All give opportunities for creativity in the children, as well as developing skills of presentation, including perhaps telling other children about their discovery. One appealing activity comes in ‘What can you turn your leaf into?’ On this page we illustrate this with a ‘cat and mouse’, but children do come up with lovely ideas themselves. | |
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| Figure 14a & b - What can you turn your leaf into? | |
