ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on children searching for and identifying plants or other items in the school grounds and linking them to the alphabet. Children work outside with their clipboard, pens, paper and identification keys or books to find and identify different plants. On the school playground, children chalk a large, widely spaced alphabet A-Z. Carl Linnaeus was an important scientist who developed and refined a way to classify and name living things that is still in use today. Botanical sketches in science are important; some children could sketch specimens rather than photograph them. Show children illustrations from some of the great botanists from the past such as Charles Darwin, Beatrix Potter, Gregor Mendel, Carl Linnaeus, David Douglas and Robert Fortune. Show children botanical sketches: these can be found on websites such as Google Images, Kew Gardens and The Natural History Museum.
