Science—Year 2—Plants

Most plants grow from a seeds or bulbs.

All living things reproduce. Flying insects pollinate flowering plants which enable plants to create seeds.

The life cycle of a simple flowering plant is germination, growth, flowering and seed production

Flowers attract pollinators and are where the seeds are produced

Plants need water, light to grow healthily.

Key Knowledge

Key People

Vocabulary

seeds

bulbs

fully grown

water

light

damp/wet/dry

dark/light

hot/warm/cool/cold

use comparatives e.g. hotter/colder/wetter

grow/growth

healthy

shoot

seedling

wither/limp

die

dry/crispy

soil

earth

Carl Linnaeus (1707) famous for his work in Taxonomy, the science of

identifying, naming and classifying organisms (plants, animals,

bacteria, fungi, etc.).

Agnes Robertson Arber (1879 – 1960) a British plant anatomist.

Because of her contributions to botanical science, Agnes Arber

received the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society of London at the age

of 69 – the first woman to receive such accolade.

Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) loved painting landscape, flora, and fauna

and fungi and became widely respected in mycology.

Potter’s study and watercolours of fungi led to her being widely

respected in the field of mycology.