Key Stage 3 programme - Plant adaptations to the environment activity tour
In these sessions, secondary school students learn about physiological adaptations which allow plants to survive in a variety of environments. Choose between the 45 minute activity tour and the 90 minute extended activity tour.
Carnivorous plants in the Princess of Wales Conservatory.
Overview
Students discover that many plants and animals are particularly suited to the environment they live in and learn how plants survive in arid environments using a variety of water retention strategies and anti-predation mechanisms. They also learn how plants survive in the damp and dark environment of the wet tropics and the low-nutrient environment of bogs and marshes.
In the 45 minute activity tour, students focus on plant adaptations to the wet tropics or plant adaptations to the dry tropics.
In the 90 minute extended activity tour students explore the wet tropics, the dry tropics and additional environments, such as aquatic environments and/or low nutrient environments.
- Length: Activity tour - 45 minutes | Extended activity tour - 90 minutes.
- Group size: 15 students.
- Minimum supervision required: 1 adult per 10 students.
- Programme cost: Activity tour - £25 per group of 15 students | Extended activity tour - £50 per group of 15 students.
- Administration fee: £80.
Learning outcomes
School visits at Kew Gardens support and enhance the curriculum offered in schools. We aim to give students opportunities that are difficult or impossible to create in the school environment.
As teachers ourselves, we design our sessions to match the learning outcomes in the National Curriculum. At the moment, the new government has withdrawn the changes planned for 2010/11 and will be producing new curriculum guidelines. Once they have done that, we will re-visit the learning outcomes for our sessions.
The learning outcomes shown apply to the curriculum as it is at this time. This session offers students the opportunity to learn to:
- identify several plant adaptations to the environment
- explain and provide examples of convergent and divergent evolution
- name the parts of a plant and their function (including stomata and chloroplasts)
- describe photosynthesis in words, and that plants derive their energy from this process.
Links with the QCA/DfE schemes of work
QCA Science
- Unit 7C - Environment and feeding relationships.
- Unit 7D - Variation and classification.
- Unit 8D - Ecological relationships.
- Unit 8K - Light.
- Unit 9A - Inheritance and selection.
- Unit 9C - Plants and photosynthesis.
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