The life and travels of Charles Darwin with fun activities for all primary aged children. To access free Science and Darwin materials on the website, just click on Teachers' Area or your year group at the top!

<p>The Great Plant Hunt develops children’s understanding of the natural world and is an ideal free resource to help you teach the primary science curriculum. In this teachers booklet you will find activities for 7-8 year-olds. They offer a range of opportunities for pupils to think critically. For fun extras and further information visit: http://www.greatplanthunt.org/yeargroup-3 The Great Plant Hunt is produced by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and funded by the Wellcome Trust.</p>

<p>The Great Plant Hunt develops children’s understanding of the natural world and is an ideal free resource to help you teach the primary science curriculum. In this teachers booklet you will find activities for 3-5 year olds. The children will be finding out about all the amazing colours found in nature. They will learn how to group a collection of items, that collection can be sorted in different ways, and then use the collection to make colourful party bags for a party! For fun extras and further information visit: http://www.greatplanthunt.org/foundation The Great Plant Hunt is produced by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and funded by the Wellcome Trust.</p>

<p>The Great Plant Hunt develops children’s understanding of the natural world and is an ideal free resource to help you teach the primary science curriculum. In this teachers booklet you will find activities for 8-9 year-olds. Charles Darwin was very interested in collecting and made collections, observations and recordings to document how plants and animals adapted to their surroundings. The 8-9 year-old ‘Collectors’ age group will do this too! For fun extras and further information visit: http://www.greatplanthunt.org/yeargroup-4 The Great Plant Hunt is produced by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and funded by the Wellcome Trust.</p>

<p>The Great Plant Hunt develops children’s understanding of the natural world and is an ideal free resource to help you teach the primary science curriculum. In this teachers booklet you will find activities for 5-6 year-olds. Children will be looking out for plants in the local environment and examining them carefully. They’ll be learning about plant parts and spotting similarities and differences. For fun extras and further information visit: http://www.greatplanthunt.org/yeargroup-1 The Great Plant Hunt is produced by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and funded by the Wellcome Trust.</p>

The Great Plant Hunt develops children's understanding of the natural world and is an ideal free resource to help you teach the primary science curriculum. In this teachers booklet you will find activities for 6-7 year-olds. This age group are the ‘Discoverers’, hunting for the amazing plants that grow in their part of the world. They will see the similarities and differences between plants in different habitats, collect specimens and study them in simple experiments. For fun extras and further information visit: http://www.greatplanthunt.org/yeargroup-2 The Great Plant Hunt is produced by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and funded by the Wellcome Trust.

This resource helps to identify common UK plants

This sheet shows Year 2 children the life cycle of a plant.

<p>The Great Plant Hunt develops children’s understanding of the natural world and is an ideal free resource to help you teach the primary science curriculum. In this teachers booklet you will find activities for 10-11 year-olds. Called the ‘Plant Detectives’, pupils will see how Kew scientists identified mystery seeds and then embark on their own detecting challenge. For fun extras and further information visit: http://www.greatplanthunt.org/yeargroup-6 The Great Plant Hunt is produced by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and funded by the Wellcome Trust.</p>

This is a lesson suitable for foundation age pupils and aims at looking at how they sort the variety of objects they collect from a plant walk.

Part of a series of resources for 5-6 year-olds, this lesson involves taking the children on a walk to discover some specific plants. Children will be using their observation skills to help them match or compare living plants with an image.

<p>Join thousands of primary school children across the UK taking part in a free phenology activity between 17-22 May. Aimed at 5-11 year olds, it’s an ideal practical activity to engage children with real science outside the classroom. Taking part is straightforward – for full details and to download a sheet containing the list of plants to look for, visit: www.greatplanthunt.org/gphweek. Phenology is the study of the seasonal life cycles of plants and animals. Scientists at Kew have been logging the flowering time of plants since the 1950’s.

This is one of many fun and educational activities from the 'Following in Darwin&'s Footsteps Storybook&';. Children can go on a ‘Thinking Walk’ and collect petals, seeds and small leaves using sticky tape.

Pupils can keep a Great Plant Hunt project book and this sheet has been designed as a universal front cover.

This activity helps children understand and discover biodiversity in their own environment. They will also learn how important plants are in everyday life and why it is important to protect them. Walks can be done within or outside of your school grounds and are an opportunity for focused, detailed observation as well as data collection. As with the rest of The Great Plant Hunt activities, the biodiversity thinking walk enjoys close links with the national curriculum for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

A picture that shows children where they can find seeds among the food in their kitchen.

This is one of many fun and educational activities from the 'Following in Darwin's Footsteps Storybook'. Children get to take a look at how we use different plants in our everyday lives.

In this activity, the 'Collectors' go on a walk where they will compare plant habitats and collect, document and press specimens from the Identikit list in the same way as a real Plant Hunter.

This guide shows how to identify a daisy in the different stages of its life cycle. It is particularly useful for year 5 (9-10 year-olds) and foundation level (3-5 year-olds). Visit: www.greatplanthunt.org for the complete range of free activities.

In this activity the children from Year 3 will go on a walk and reflect on how we use plants. Children will carry out detailed observation, and could record the walk by taking photographs or recording audio.

A powerpoint presentations showing how to make a plant pot out of newspaper. This is of particular use in our year 5 and 6 activities.