The Great Plant Hunt – the UK’s biggest school science project!

To coincide with the 200th anniversary year of Charles Darwin’s birth, RBG Kew teamed up with the Wellcome Trust to create The Great Plant Hunt, which aimed to get primary school children out and about and excited by nature.

During National Science and Engineering Week in March 2009, RBG Kew sent the UK’s 22,000 state primary schools a Treasure Chest full of free resources to be used in the classroom, online and in the great outdoors. The free resources were clearly mapped to the primary science curriculum and included activities for Years 1-6.

With exciting missions to discover plants in the wild (from the school playing fields to weeds growing in the cracks in the pavement!) the Great Plant Hunt gave children the chance to be part of the UK's biggest ever school science project. They took part in a unique experiment which helped Kew’s scientists at the world-famous Millennium Seed Bank.