Little Plant Detectives
Year 1 Science • Ages 5–6 • Beginner
Instructions: Explore common plants and trees, then name their parts. Read each instruction carefully and write your answers in the boxes. Use the word banks and clues to help you.
Name the Plant
Choose a plant name from the word bank for each clue. These are common wild or garden plants. Write one name in each box.
Word bank: daisy, rose, dandelion, sunflower, buttercup
1. This garden flower can have prickly stems.
2. This yellow wild flower often grows on lawns.
3. This tall garden flower has a large yellow flower head.
4. This small white flower has a yellow centre.
5. This yellow wild flower can grow in grass.
Wild or Garden?
Read each plant name. Write W if it is commonly found growing wild, or G if it is commonly grown in a garden. Some plants can grow in more than one place; use the usual example given in each clue.
1. A dandelion growing on a grassy lawn:
2. A rose planted in a flower bed:
3. A daisy growing in a meadow:
4. A sunflower planted in a garden:
5. A buttercup growing in a field:
Parts of a Flowering Plant
Use the word bank to complete each sentence about a flowering plant. Read the whole sentence before choosing a word. Use each word once.
Word bank: roots, stem, leaves, flower
1. The ___ take in water from the soil.
2. The ___ holds the plant upright.
3. The ___ grow from the stem and help the plant make food.
4. The ___ can make seeds for new plants.
Parts of a Tree
Choose the correct word from the word bank for each sentence. Think about how a tree is like a flowering plant, and how its woody trunk supports it.
Word bank: roots, trunk, leaves, branches
1. The tree’s woody main stem is its ___.
2. The ___ hold the tree in the ground and take in water.
3. The ___ grow out from the trunk.
4. The ___ grow on the branches.
Plant Parts: Choose the Answer
Circle the best answer in each question. There is one correct answer each time.
1. Which part takes in water from the soil?
2. Which part supports a flowering plant?
3. Which part of a tree is its woody main stem?
4. Which part can make seeds?
5. Which part grows from a stem and helps a plant make food?
Plant Detective Clues
Read each clue and write the plant or tree name in the box. Use the word bank to help you. Each answer is used once.
Word bank: oak, daisy, rose, sunflower
1. I am a tree. My leaves are often lobed, and I can grow acorns.
2. I am a small flower with white petals and a yellow centre.
3. I am a garden flower that may have prickles on my stem.
4. I am a tall garden plant with a large flower head that can turn towards the Sun.
Activity 1: rose ; dandelion ; sunflower ; daisy ; buttercup
Activity 2: W ; G ; W ; G ; W
Activity 3: roots ; stem ; leaves ; flower
Activity 4: trunk ; roots ; branches ; leaves
Activity 5: roots ; stem ; trunk ; flower ; leaves
Activity 6: oak ; daisy ; rose ; sunflower
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