KS3 Biology — Plant Nutrition — Extension Pack

🌱 Stretch high achievers further with four ready-to-use enrichment activities on plant nutrition — no preparation required. Plants are producers, making their own food from carbon dioxide, water, and light through photosynthesis, and these tasks push students to apply that thinking, for KS3 students aged 11–14.

📦 What's included:

Vocabulary Matching (15 terms) — covering producer, consumer, food, glucose, carbohydrate, minerals, photosynthesis, cellular respiration, stomata, cellulose, primary consumer, secondary consumer, food chain, protein, and living organism

Challenge Quiz (25 marks) — a data analysis table testing the definition of food across different substances, why a plant in a dark cupboard dies despite having water and minerals, why a plant leaning toward a window links to nutrition, food chain energy tracing, and the science behind "plant food" bottles

The Year Without a Summer Case Study (20 marks) — the 1816 Mount Tambora eruption, covering how reduced light caused crop failure through photosynthesis, food chain collapse from producers to livestock to humans, and an evaluation of whether the event supports the idea that food chains collapse when producers fail

Teach It Back task — assessed with a seven-section rubric

Full answer keys and marking guidance included for all four activities.

🎬 Watch the free video lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg3eSzOf4pA

👩‍🏫 Google Classroom ready — copy the link straight into your assignment. Print as many copies as your class needs.

🔓 Pairs with the main 100-mark plant nutrition worksheet, also available as part of the Complete Lesson Pack. Save £1 buying the pack (£3 + £3 = £6 separately, £5 together).

Price: £3