Year 1 · Plants Around Us · Summary
Year 1 Science Plants Around Us: summary and key words
Part of the Year 1 Science plants around us chapter. Chapter overview · whole chapter on one page
Chapter summary
| Skill | Method |
|---|---|
| Wild and garden plants | Wild plants grow on their own. Garden plants are planted by people. Both are living plants. |
| Flowers in the grass | Daisy: white petals and a yellow middle. Buttercup: five yellow petals. Clover: leaves in threes. |
| Garden and spring flowers | Tulip: a cup shape. Daffodil: six petals and a trumpet. Bluebell: blue bells on one side of the stem. |
| Deciduous trees | They lose all their leaves in autumn. Look at the leaf shape to name them: oak, sycamore, birch and more. |
| Evergreen trees | They keep their leaves or needles all year. Pine, fir, yew and holly are evergreen. |
| Through the year | Spring: new leaves. Summer: full green leaves. Autumn: leaves change and fall. Winter: bare branches. |
Can you…?
- I can name some wild plants, such as a daisy, a dandelion and a buttercup
- I can name some garden and spring flowers, such as a tulip and a daffodil
- I can name a tree by looking at its leaves
- I can say which trees lose their leaves in autumn and which stay green
- I can describe how a deciduous tree changes through the year
- I can look at plants safely, and I know not to eat any plant or berry
Key terms
- plant
- a living thing that grows
- wild plant
- a plant that grows on its own, without anyone planting it
- garden plant
- a plant that people plant and look after
- petal
- one of the coloured parts of a flower
- prickle
- a sharp bump on a stem, like the stem of a rose
- bulb
- a round lump under the soil that some plants grow from
- blossom
- the flowers on a tree in spring
- deciduous
- a tree that loses all its leaves in autumn
- evergreen
- a plant or tree that stays green all year
- needle
- a thin, pointed leaf, like the leaves of a pine tree
- poisonous
- can make us ill if we eat it, so never eat it
- season
- one of the four parts of the year: spring, summer, autumn and winter