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- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students examine the edible parts of a plant and explore their function. They define what makes a fruit classified as a fruit. They create a sketch or map or photo of a 1930s farm and justify their plant selections. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 8th
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Students complete a unit of lessons on growing plants. They plant seeds in various ways, make predictions, develop a plant journal, evaluate and analyze the growth of the seeds, label the parts of a seed, and identify the edible plant parts. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 2nd
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Students examine plant growth stages. They categorize food plants by identifying the edible part. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students research and organize information about seeds, plants, and vegetables. They plant vegetable seeds, observe and record the plant growth on a database, and compare and analyze the information gathered on the class database. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 1st
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Students name and describe three edible plants, plant corn kernels native to Laguna Pueblo (Indian Corn), care for their individual plants and compare and contrast ears of Indian corn to sweet corn. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 3rd
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Students participate in various activities to discover the six basic types of plants. In groups, they analzye the foods they eat and identify which part they consume. After reading "The Fablous Food Phantom", they create a food phantom in which they are able to eat all parts. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students identify the edible structures of plants and taste test a variety of edible flowers. They discuss the parts of the plant we eat, and complete a fill-in-the-blank worksheet "Edible Plants and Flowers" as a class. Students then taste test jicama, carrots, red onion, spinach, celery, broccoli, peas, and tomatoes. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students track the growth of a lima bean plant. They record the growth of the bean everyday in a notebook and then transfer the data into an excel spreadsheet. They compare the different rates of growth and create a graph. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students investigate the types of plants that are found in Texas. They conduct research using a variety of resources and answer some critical thinking questions. Then students use the information to set the context for role-playing the job of a botanist. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th
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Students read an article about edible plants of Texas. They complete an attached worksheet summarizing the main ideas of the article. Students design a garden-answering mathematical questions about the numbers of plants and what would result from each of several scenarios (freezing, moles, etc.). Full Review »
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