Botany Lesson Plans

From Botany to Interdisciplinary Web Quest: Flower Symbolism, find teacher approved Botany lesson plans that inspire student learning.

321 Botany Lesson Plans

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Botany

12 Views: 9th - 12th Grade; 3.0/5.

Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the study of botany. They conduct research using a variety of resources. Students identify the major components of plants that includes the vascular system. They also answer key questions.

Economic Botany: Plants - Where in the World?

5 Views: 7th Grade; 4.0/5.

Students research plant uses and products, country of origin, and any company correspondence.

Living Things

5 Views: 6th Grade; 3.0/5.

Students practice their vocabulary words selected from a context piece relating to the Vista Module. They are given the following vocabulary: classify, botany, zoology, ecosystem, food chain, photosyntheis, microscope, habitat, and biology. Students discuss that biology is the science of life.

Power to the Peanut

10 Views: 4th - 6th Grade; 3.0/5.

Students locate information about the life and research of African American botanist George Washington Carver. They identify how Carver's knowledge of botany contributed to improvement of farming practices and introduction of new products made from peanuts and sweet potatoes. Students organize their findings into a visual presentation that highlights Carver's research and accomplishments.

Beginner Bonsai

4 Views: 5th - 6th Grade; 3.0/5.

Students plant and care for a tree seedling, designing it into a Bonsai. This activity can incorporate many other subjects. They who want to explain the traditions of the Bonsai, and can extend their learning about Japanese culture.

What Are the Parts of a Flower?

23 Views: 4th Grade; 3.0/5.

Students dissect a flower. They label all major flower parts and create microscope slides using index cards. They observe flower parts under a microscope.

Botanical Bookmarks

0 Views: 1st - 6th Grade; 3.0/5.

Students increase their comprehension of botany as they collect, identify, and classify various leaves. They observe that each leaf has its own unique color, texture, design, and pattern. Students create a pressed-leaf bookmark, accenting it with gold Crayola Premier Tempera.

Economic Botany: Plants - Where in the World?

15 Views: 7th Grade; 3.0/5.

Students explain that plants are not just used for food only, but used in almost everything we do or use in our daily lives. Also, students realize that plants are grown world wide.

Botany Scavenger Hunt Where's the Ginkgo?

0 Views: 4th - 6th Grade; 3.5/5.

Students use a science journal to log plants that are native to Alabama. In this plant lesson plan, students identify characteristics, describe environments, and classify the plants that they find.

Interdisciplinary Web Quest: Flower Symbolism

2 Views: 4th - 12th Grade; 3.0/5.

Students identify flowers and their symbolism in art, literature, and design as they appeared in Victorian times from 1850 to 1900, as exemplified in furniture, quilt, paperweight, embroidery, and other designs. They create a simplified version.