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- Grade Range
- 9th - 10th
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Students distinguish the characteristics that separate the flowering plants (angiosperms). Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students describe flowering plants, explore why angiosperms are the most successful plants, identify angiosperms and explain how they reproduce. They describe the three life patterns of angiosperms. Full Review »
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- 10th
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Students visit the New York Botanical Garden and draw angiosperms and gymnosperms from different terrestrial biomes. They label their drawing with the common and scientific names. Full Review »
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- 6th - 11th
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Students work in small groups to create posters illustrating the major facts and functions of plant organs. Within their groups, they assume the role of specialists creating specialized posters pertaining to the different parts of plants. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students identify characteristics of different types of trees and view a PowerPoint presentation about trees. They explore a dichotomous key and use it to identify the species of different trees. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students identify trees by their leaf type. They manipulate the GPS system to load waypoints of particular trees in their community. They transfer their information of ten types of trees to ARCview for presentation purposes. They create a PowerPoint presentation to reflect their knowledge of tree types, uses of trees and digital pictures they took. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 4th
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Students become familiar with the life cycle of a tree in this cooperative lesson. Throughout the lesson, students are engaged in activities wherein they can study about the life cycle through literature and fine arts. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students research resources needed to manage plant growth.They calculate total cost of all resources needed to grow seedlings.Students monitor seedling growth and track plant growth rates via spreadsheet and graphs. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Using the internet, students explore angiosperms. They view a video on flowers. Students sing about flowers and the function of each part. Students create a concept map of the flower's organs. They perform an electronic scavenger hunt. Cross-curriculum activities and lesson plans are included. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students create phylogenetic trees to diagram the evolutionary connection between four plant groups. Using ferns, moss, angiosperm, and gymnosperm, they identify the reproductive structures and place them on the tree. Their posters include examples of each plant group. Full Review »

