KS3 To save or not to save?
Explore our diverse plant collection and get to know some of the useful plants growing. Should their seeds be saved for the future in Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst?
Level
Key Stage 3
Duration
1 hour
Allocated space
30 pupils
Which plant species should we save for the future? Pupils use map reading skills to locate and learn about several useful plants growing in the Wakehurst plant collection.
They use what they have learnt to decide which ones should be saved for the future in the seed bank.
Learning Outcomes
We design our sessions to match the learning outcomes in the national curriculum. Our sessions have a cross-curricular approach and are tailored to suit the educational needs of your group. We aim to give pupils opportunities to work scientifically in areas that are difficult or impossible to create in the school environment.
This session offers pupils the opportunity to:
- Understand the importance of plants to humans.
- Know about the uses of six different plants.
- Navigate using a map.
- Work collaboratively to complete the task.
- Justify decisions made about which plants to save based on the information collected.
Curriculum links
This KS3 visit supports and enhances the science and geography curriculum offered in schools.
Science
- The importance of maintaining biodiversity and the use of gene banks to preserve hereditary material.
Geography
- Understand how human and physical processes interact to influence, and change landscapes, environments and the climate; and how human activity relies on effective functioning of natural systems.
