Planet Earth podcasts, from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and hosted by Planet Earth online, cover a variety of topics about the world around us. Each podcast reports on two to four different stories, describing research projects and studies, dangers to the environment and wildlife, and proposed...

This book, from Unilever, was produced in the context of the availability of proteinaceous foods and world nutritional requirements. A table of foods with percentage content of protein, fat and carbohydrate is provided – together with a breakdown of the comparative animal/vegetable protein consumption by continent...

This Catalyst article explains how scientists came to understand plants' sensitivity to external stimuli and their ability to move. Mimosa pudica...

This book looks at several aspects of plant science: *Soil * Soil nutrients * Food from plants * Growing new plants * Damage to plants Plant Science was one of the Science at Work series. All the booklets in the series were highly illustrated with practical work described, step by step, by 3D line drawings with...

Invite pupils to explore how plants are adapted for different biomes with this card sorting activity. There are some unusu...

Invite pupils to explore how plants are adapted for different biomes with this card sorting activity. There are some unusual plant examples of adaptation to discuss including snowdrops and night blooming cereus. Use the teacher’s answer sheet for more information.

This activity is part of...

In this practical activity, students explore how the technique of re-infection (using infected material to infect healthy plant tissue) can help to identify the cause of a plant disease.

The activity will help students to demonstrate the following learning outcome at KS4:

• describe ways to...

In this practical activity, students use magnification to examine leaves showing symptoms of a common plant disease and produce labelled drawings of the fungal spores.

The activity will help students to demonstrate the following learning outcomes at KS4:

• describe a common plant disease...

In this practical and data analysis activity, students collect samples of leaves showing samples of infection with powdery mildew; the samples can be sent for analysis as part of the ...

Invite pupils to learn more about the different stages in a plant’s life cycle with this card matching activity.

This activity is part of Endeavour, an online collection of inquiry-based teaching resources created by experts and teachers at the Royal Botanic Gardens,...

Invite pupils to discuss the different stages in a plant’s life and put them in order with this card sort activity.

This activity is part of Endeavour, an online collection of inquiry-based teaching resources created by experts and teachers at the Royal Botanic Gardens...

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Recall that plants are living organisms that need food to stay alive and grow.

• Recall that plants are producers that use a process called photosynthesis to make their...

Plant Physiology is one of the titles in the series of ASE Lab Books that were published in the early 1970s for the Association for Science Education by John Murray. Each title covered one or two topics and brought together the best of the teaching notes and...