The Enormous Turnip: Plant parts we eat
Use this presentation to read the story, learn to name plants and their parts, discover the plants we eat and name foods that come from them.
How can I use this with my class?
Use these resources to explore the parts of a plant with your class. The presentation contains information about parts of a plant, foods we can eat and an introduction to careers.
Use the parts of a plant activity sheet to explore keywords such as leaves root and stem by labelling a tomato plant. Use the sheet with the poster for investigative learning.
After learning the parts of a plant, you can use the plants we eat activity sheet with the presentation to look at different examples of plants we eat, drawing and naming a type of food for each part of the plant we can eat.
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Plants we eat activity sheet
An activity sheet for pupils to record the plants we eat and to name foods that come from different plant parts.
Parts of a plant poster
Use this poster to label the parts of a tomato plant and to match each plant parts with its function.
Parts of a plant activity sheet
Use this activity sheet to label the parts of a tomato plant and then have pupils draw their own plants and label accordingly.
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