1B - Science - Wild Plants

Lesson: Science

Wild Plants: 

Children learned that a plant is wild if it can grow by itself outside without the need of people to look after it. If a wild plant grows in a garden it may be called a weed. 

Common Wild Plants: 

Children looked as some common wild plants that they may find in England. Examples incude nettle, ivy, bramble, buttercup, daisy and dandelion. They discussed the shape, size and distinguishing features of these plants. 

Wild Plant Hunt: 

In pairs, children hunt for wild plants in a suitable outside area, marking their frequency using a tally on the Wild Plant Hunt Tally Sheet.

Children marked the frequency of the wild plants they saw with a five bar gate tally. They added up their tallies  and wrote the corresponding number in the box at the end. Children dicussed which wild plant they saw the most of and the least of.