Plants for Primary Pupils

Literacy

Opportunities to develop literacy pervade many of the activities, and often it is difficult to draw a line and say ‘this is literacy’ and ‘this is creativity’. The card games in the early booklets (Snap, Dominoes, Splat) help children become familiar with the appropriate vocabulary.

There are plenty more opportunities in Grouping and classification for children to develop vocabulary when trying to describe leaves - first in their own words, then building up a feel for suitable scientific words.

There are suggestions for making a poster in the Pollination and fertilisation challenge, the ‘Design a seed packet’ activity gives a chance for both literacy and presentation skills and the final booklet promises to have prompts for a debate on a topical issue, such as conservation as applied to a particular area and situation.

Figure 11 - Design a seed packet

Plants for Primary Pupils - Creativity