Plant and Bug Hunting Kit

Content Name

Plant and Bug Hunting Kit

Content Type

Product Resources

Description

Catch the bug for Biology! Create a hive of outdoor activity with the Plant and Bug Hunting Kit from Hope Education. This super set of equipment will inspire the next generation of scientists, encouraging learners to explore the natural environment and identify its little inhabitants.

Curriculum

• Country

  England

  Key Stage:

  Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2

  Years:

  Year 4, Year 3, Year 2, Year 1

  Subjects:

  • Science

  Topics:

  • Working scientifically
  • Living things and their habitats
  • Animals, including humans
  • Plants

  Programmes of Study:

  • asking simple questions and recognising that they can be answered in different ways
  • observing closely, using simple equipment
  • identifying and classifying
  • using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions
  • gathering and recording data to help in answering questions
  • identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other
  • identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats
  • identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees
  • identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals
  • identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees
  • recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways
  • explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment
  • recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things
  • identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers

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