This primary resource introduces children to different plant species. Discover the huge variety of unique and unusual features that plants can possess. Which species of plant is the biggest? Which is the stinkiest? How do the characteristics of plants differ across the globe?

Pupils will learn about the peculiar features of the plants shown here, their sizes and where they grow in our National Geographic Kids’ Plants primary resource sheet.

The teaching resource can be used in study group tasks for discussion about the similarities or differences in the characteristics of plants. Why do plants have different features? What do they need them for? The resource could be used as a printed handout for each pupil to use for a case study about their chosen species of plant, or for display on the interactive whiteboard for class discussion.

Activity: Ask children to use their individual print-outs to make flash cards about each species of plant. Pupils could be divided into groups and assigned two or three flash cards each. As a class exercise, challenge pupils to answer questions by identifying themselves from their groups if they have the correct flash card (i.e. Which plant fools hungry animals? Can the parasitic plants stand up? Raise your hand if you think your plant is hairy, etc.).





Pupils should be taught to:

  •  investigate the way in which water is transported within plants





Download primary resource






More Like

Prehistoric Animals

Dinosaur Interview with Steve Brusatte!


Cuba facts!

Learn all about this colourful country!
General Entertainment

Max in ‘Life on a Longboat’!

Join Max the time-travelling mouse on a Viking longboat!

Huge Roman villa discovered in Wiltshire garden

The chance discovery could be one of the biggest Roman villas ever found in Britain