Nature & outdoors
Explore leaves, plants, minibeasts and how living things need each other.
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- Lesson 1 · EYFS · 15 min
Leaf hunt
Find and sort leaves by size, shape and colour.
Learn: Trees and plants have different leaves. Some are big and round, some thin like needles. In autumn many leaves turn yellow, orange and red and fall to the ground.
Try it: Collect five leaves and line them up from smallest to biggest.
Check: What colours can leaves turn in autumn?
Yellow, orange, red and brown
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- Lesson 2 · KS1 · 15 min
What plants need
Name what a plant needs to grow.
Learn: Plants need water, light, air and the right temperature. They take up water and nutrients through their roots, and use sunlight in their leaves to make food.
Try it: Plant a bean in a cup and keep a picture diary for two weeks.
Check: Name two things a plant needs.
Any two of water, light, air and warmth
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- Lesson 3 · KS2 · 20 min
Food chains
Build a simple food chain.
Learn: A food chain shows who eats what. It starts with a producer, a plant that makes its own food using sunlight. Then come consumers: grass → rabbit → fox. Arrows point the way the energy goes.
Try it: Draw a food chain from a garden or a pond.
Check: What is at the start of most food chains?
A producer, usually a green plant
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