Terminale SVT students have the opportunity to step outside the classroom throughout the year for a variety of activities connected to the curriculum. They are lucky enough to study Geosciences in the field, as well as visit the gardens and greenhouses in Oslo, benefiting from both a natural environment and incredible plant collections!
During this first outing, the students turned into budding botanists: in the garden’s greenhouses, they discovered morpho-anatomical and physiological adaptations linked to survival in dry environments. They also observed aquatic plants and the very particular leaf adaptations of carnivorous species.
The goal is also to open their eyes to the incredible diversity and beauty of the plant world…
“Are plants inferior to other organisms? Well, no! Observing their adaptations and the level of complexity they have reached, one must admit it: they are just as sophisticated as animals — humans included! Animals, humans among them, need plants in order to live, but the reverse is not true!”
— Plants equal to humans – Excerpt from a scientific article by F. Hallé (Dossier Pour la Science, No. 77, Oct./Dec. 2012)
