| Links to the story | Key Stage 2 and 3 programmes of study | Possible learning outcomes | Big ideas |
| Trick or treat? | The interdependence of organisms in an ecosystem [KS3 Science] | To understand how Traveller’s beard has gained different names. to understand how it can colonise new areas | adventures in time and space autumn stories being and becoming folklore life depend depends on life |
Clematis vitalba is a fairly common plant in the South of England, growing in hedgerows and the margins of woods. It is not surprising that it has a variety of names. The system of naming developed by Linnaeus was a triumph of the emerging science of biology in the eighteenth century. To have a single name that is recognised around the world is the basis of sensible conversations about the living world.
Clematis vitalba looks especially good in late October, so this is also a trick or treat story? The trick being the strategy by which it manages to survive.