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Plants on Mars - Build an automatic plant watering system
This resource from the European Space Agency is presented as eight activities which guides students to create an automatic plant watering system, suitable for use on a possible future colony on the planet Mars. Students have opportunities to use and develop their skills to plan, design and analyse various soil-...
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Plants to Eat
The Ginn Science information book Plants to Eat was written for Year One (Primary Two) students aged five to six years and published in 1991. It relates to the content strand ‘Other animals and plants’ and gives information about the different parts of plants that we use as food and about some poisonous plants. It...
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This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.
You probably know that bees and butterflies help to pollinate flowers....
Plants: ready, steady, grow!
Explore the world of seeds in these lesson plans and activities aimed at Year Two. Learn why plants disperse their seeds and the various clever ways in which they do this. Plant cress seeds and grow a bean using hydroponics – watch and record what happens to them. Using various art and design techniques, make and...
Plants: roots and shoots
This resource provides a selection of lesson plans, worksheets and teachers notes relating to plants at Year Three. They include activities in which children find out about the parts of flowering plants and their functions, and investigate the conditions affecting plant growth and how water is transported in plants...
Electric lighting effect that puts the power of lightning at the users fingertips. When plugged in using the supplied adapter, this glass ball produces streaks of...