At a glance
Spring Plants in Nature is a two-hour outing for grades 3 to 7, near the school.
With observation sheets, students observe British Columbia spring plants at different growth stages, such as bloodroot, which Indigenous peoples used as face paint, and the red trillium, whose smell attracts flies. They learn to identify these plants and describe their parts.
Let’s go explore nature!
We take our apprentice botanists on a walk to observe British Columbia spring plants such as bloodroot (used by Indigenous peoples as face paint) and to discover the red trillium’s very particular smell, which attracts flies.
Observation sheets make the exploration even richer.
Come on, let’s get some fresh air!
Learning goals (elementary)
- Observe spring plants at different growth stages in their natural habitat.
- Identify some plants.
- Describe the parts of a plant (roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruit and seeds).
- Match the parts of a plant with their general function.
- Describe how plants reproduce sexually (pistil, stamen, pollen, seed and fruit).
- Describe the growth stages of a flowering plant (pollination, fertilization, fruiting, dispersal, germination and flowering).
