Look around our school. How many different plants can you spot without leaving your seat? A blade of grass, a weed by the wall, a tree beyond the window?
Today we hunt for plants outside, then meet plants from other Irish places: the wet bog, the field edge and the windy shore. What makes each plant suit the place where it grows?
Two words for today.
Plant — a living thing with roots, a stem and leaves, like a daisy in the yard.
Habitat — the kind of place a plant grows best, like a wet bog or a windy shore.
On the board is a flowering plant. The labels are roots, stem, leaf, flower and petal. Help us put each label on the right part. Which part takes in water from the soil? Which part holds the plant up?
Parts of a flowering plant
Our plant hunt job:
- Stay with your group on the path the teacher shows.
- Find at least two different plants.
- Look at the leaf, the stem, and whether there is a flower.
Take a magnifier with you, because the small parts are easier to see up close. Later you will tell the class about one plant your group found, and back in the classroom you will draw it, so look carefully now while the plant is in front of you.
On the board are three places: wet bog, field edge and windy shore.
Your group has three plant cards. Sort the three cards in a row on your table to match the three places on the board (left to right). Then tell your group one way a card plant is the same as, or different from, a plant from our yard.
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