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Terrarium Teacher Resources
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Second graders learn about plant systems and how plants grow and function. In this plant lesson plan, 2nd graders collect data based on roots, leaves, terrariums, plant uses, and locations of certain kinds of plants. They fill out worksheets and make graphs according to these plants and their growing systems.
Third graders observe plant growth. In this plant biology lesson, 3rd graders read the book From Seed to Plant and use several seeds, pebbles, and containers to develop a terrarium.
Young scholars investigate the rainforest ecosystem. In this rainforest ecosystem lesson, students create a mini rainforest inside a terrarium and observe how plants grow in the rainforest ecosystem. Young scholars water the plants and observe how the plants grow over a period of time. Students create a rain stick form a cardboard tube.
Fifth graders research and experiment to determine the interdependence of living and non-living things in an ecosystem. They examine each level of the ecosystems from producers to decomposers. They make terrariums for observing earthworms. They design presentations using a variety of publishing and presentation software.
Third graders describe interrelationships of organisms in the environment. In this ecosystem activity, 3rd graders construct terrariums and an aquarium, observe, record their findings, and create a flyer to share their data.
Third graders explore water by examining a terrarium.
Third graders plant seeds and see how they will grow in a specific temperature and are questioned about different environments and how they think crops would grow there. They form a hypothesis, perform an experiment, and then collect results and come up with a solution.
Students create habitats in jars to understand integral aspects of plants' and animals' habitats.
Students become actively involved in building a model illustrating how energy, such as the water cycle, flows through a system. In making a terrarium, the student understands the flow of energy, beginning with the sun, and making a complete cycle through evaporation, condensation and precipitation.
Fourth graders create a biome of their choosing in a terrarium. Terrariums are observed and results recorded daily for 2 weeks. They observe/record changes in the water within their terrarium and use the data to write sentences explaining changes.