The Great Plant Hunt

Intro

2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity and to help you celebrate this in school, we have a special new Great Plant Hunt activity – the biodiversity thinking walk! Suitable for all age groups in both Key stage 1 and 2, this walk works perfectly alongside the other Great Plant Hunt activities to help children learn about and explore the biodiversity around us.

Children will learn about the biodiversity on their doorstep, be introduced to the idea of food chains and begin to see the importance of both local and global biodiversity.

Thinking Walks

This special new thinking walk is suitable for every year group in both Key stage 1 and 2 and, following a similar structure to the other walks in the project, will help reveal the wealth of biodiversity in your area.

The thinking walk activity sheet will give you details of the walk, with the biodiversity fortune teller containing mini challenges - pointers to help your pupils discover how rich the biodiversity around your school is.

Thinking walk colour
Thinking walk black & white
Fortune teller colour
Fortune teller black & white

The supporting materials below provide a great way of introducing the topic of biodiversity, giving an idea of what you might find on your thinking walk, and a step by step folding guide for both the fortune teller and the biodiversity doodle book!

Biodiversity powerpoint
Biodiversity walk powerpoint
Fortune folding guide
Doodle book folding guide

Register your school

Teachers need to sign up for a school account - even if you've already registered to get our newsletter.

When you sign up, we'll send you a username and password for your classes to log in with and share photos and data from their Great Plant Hunt activities.

Please use a school email address if you have one - other email addresses will take a little longer to process.