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 Summer Treasure Hunt Go on a summer treasure hunt in a garden, park or woodland.. Autumn Leaves Factfile • Leaves are green because they contain a substance called chlorophyll.. • Lea

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Summer Treasure Hunt

Go on a summer treasure hunt in a garden, park or woodland

Try to find or spot as many things

on the list as possible

Tick the box if you spot something

Don’t touch

or disturb the animals you see.

A snail

A baby bird begging its parent for food

A leaf that’s

been chewed

A butterfly

Can you hear the sound of someone mowing grass?

A flower with a

lovely smell

A bee visiting flowers

A place where a small animal could hide

A pink flower

A yellow flower

A white flower

Tiny moss plants growing

on a tree or rock

A spiderweb

A flower with more than six petals

A plant with seedpods

A dandelion with fluffy seeds

Autumn Leaves Factfile

• Leaves are green because they contain a

substance called chlorophyll.

• Leaves make chlorophyll using sunlight.

• It’s chlorophyll that gives leaves their green

colour.

• Leaves use chlorophyll to make the food

they need for energy They make food using

sunlight, water and carbon dioxide.

Trees that drop their leaves in

autumn are called deciduous trees

• During winter, a tree’s leaves cannot

get enough sunlight and water to

make food.

• So in autumn, a leaf stops making

food It also stops making green

chlorophyll.

• The leaf’s green colour starts to fade.

• Then the leaf’s other colours, which are normally hidden by green, show through.

• Once leaves stop making food, they drop from the tree.

A yellow leaf

A brown leaf

A red leaf

Autumn Leaves Treasure Hunt

Test your powers of observation and go on a leaf hunt in a

garden, park or woodland

Tick the box when you find one of the items

A leaf that has three

different colours

What do you think happens to leaves that fall from trees

in autumn?

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A leaf with a

pretty pattern

A leaf that’s half green

If you visit a park or woodland you might spot fungi,

such as toadstools

Fantastic Fungi Facts

1

BE CAREFUL!

Many fungi are poisonous

Never touch fungi you see growing in a woodland, field

or any other outdoor place.

Toadstool

A fungus is made up of very thin, hair-like threads called hyphae (hi-fee)

Lots of hyphae make a mycelium (my-seal-ee-um).

The mycelium grows and spreads under the ground

or through a rotting log or layer of rotting leaves

We don’t even know the fungus is there.

Once or twice a year, however, it is time for a fungus

to reproduce Then it produces a fruiting body

The part of a fungus we see is the fruiting body

The fruiting bodies of fungi come in many different

shapes and colours.

The fruiting bodies release microscopic spores into the air

Each spore might grow into a new fungus – just as a seed can grow into a new plant.

Fungi fruiting bodies

Be a Fungus Spotter

Fly agaric toadstools Chicken of the woods fungus

Sulphur tuft toadstools Blue roundhead toadstool

Cauliflower fungus Velvet shank fungus

Be a Fungus Spotter

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Panther cap toadstools Yellow stagshorn fungus

Turkey tail fungus Scarlet elf cup fungi

Plums and custard toadstool Shaggy scalycap toadstools

A leaf that has three different colours

Autumn Treasure Hunt

Go on an autumn treasure hunt in a garden, park or woodland Try to find or spot as many things

on the list as possible

Tick the box if you spot something

Don’t touch

or disturb the animals you see.

Some woodlice under

a rock or rotting log

Acorn

A frosty leaf

Fungi

BE CAREFUL!

Many fungi are poisonous Never touch fungi you see growing in a woodland, field

or any other outdoor place.

A squirrel gathering food

A pine cone

Dark, stormy clouds in the sky

A bird eating seeds

from a flower

Red berries on

a tree or bush

Conkers in spiky cases

A bird bathing

in a puddle

An animal print in the mud