KS3 Photographing nature

Key Stage 3

90 minutes

15 pupils per group

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Explore Kew’s magnificent collections and see plants in a new light.

In the Temperate House pupils will be inspired by nature and discover the unique and diverse world of Kew’s rare and endangered plants.

Using iPads, pupils will practice photographic techniques, creating a portfolio of images with nature as their subject matter.

Please note, elements of this session will be delivered outside.

Pupils will be able to:

Increase their proficiency in the handling of new and familiar materials to create photographic compositions based on Kew’s plant collections and natural environment.
Analyse and evaluate their own work, and that of others, in order to strengthen the visual impact or applications of their work.
Improve their proficiency in composition and lighting.

Subject, composition, lighting, perspective, pattern, texture, colour, portrait, landscape, background, foreground, plant adaptations, endangered

Produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences.
To analyse and evaluate their own work, and that of others, in order to strengthen the visual impact or applications of their work.

Plants

Identify and describe the functions and different parts of flowering plants - roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers, explore requirements for life.

Light

Recognise that they need light in order to see things, find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change.

Material cycles and energy

Working scientifically

Interpret observations and data, including identifying patterns and using observations, measurements and data to draw conclusions, present reasoned explanations, including explaining data in relation to predictions and hypotheses.

Practice photographing plants in our iconic Temperate House.