Activities in this teaching pack include an assessment test to assess understanding of the factors affecting plant growth complete with a marking scheme and matching record sheet and a worksheet to help the children assess their own progress for the National Curriculum programmes of study about identifying and describing the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants and investigating and testing how to support plant growth.

This lesson is part of a science scheme of work to get the children to identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants and investigate and test how to support plant growth. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.