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Learning About Plants- Flowers for a Special Occasion
Students explore the parts of plants and discover that plants need to grow. In this plant lesson, students discuss the parts of the plant and plant petunias. Students can share their plants with friends or families.
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Plants and Animals
Students taste test the garden. In this Science instructional activity, students compare and contrast plants and animals needs. Students pick fruits and vegetables in the garden and discuss their observations.
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Plants Alive! How Plants Grow and Move
Young scholars explore how plants move in response to the environment. For this plant lesson, students engage in three different experiments to investigate how plants grow and move. Resources available in English and French.
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The Magic School Bus Goes to Seed
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students get a bugs-eye view of the flower world and find out how seeds are created, how they travel, and how they grow into plants.
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Flower Power
An engaging, multi-session art and science lesson awaits your class. Within this lesson, you'll find everything you need to implement the plan. They go on a nature walk around their school, and must identify many living and non-living...
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Study of Plants
This plants PowerPoint identifies and lists the main functions of the basic parts of a plant. Each slide displays 2-4 bullet points using concise language for efficient learning. After each plant part is described, the students play a...
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Leader of the School
Students are read a book about the oceans and discuss the characterstics of the main character that makes him a leader. As a class, they use sponges and contruction paper to make their own ocean scene. To end the lesson, they add cut-out...
Baylor College
Plant Parts You Eat
Plants provide a variety of delicious foods essential for human survival. In the fourth lesson of this series on food science, young scientists investigate common fruits, vegetables, and grains in order to determine which plant part is...
Radford University
How Do I Design a Raised Bed Garden to Accommodate My Plants?
Give plants the best place to grow. Given constraints on plant spacing, pupils design a raised bed garden using graph paper, then calculate the perimeter, surface area, and volume. They use the provided costs of lumber and soil to...
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Native Plants at School -- A Garden Landscape Project
In this native plants at school -- a garden landscape project learning exercise, students design the landscape for a school garden by identifying native plants, creating a presentation and creating a plot plan within the budget. This...
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Investigating Native Plants
Learners explore Earth science by participating in a gardening activity. In this botany lesson, students discuss a group of non-native plants that would grow well in a school garden. Learners complete a plant science graphic organizer...
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Animals and Plants of BC's Rocky Shore
Learners fill out a fact sheet and look at diagrams of BC's shore and the animals that live there. In this habitat lesson plan, students discuss the plants and animals and the different zones they live in.
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Green Plants
Beginning botanists are introduced to the world of plants with this PowerPoint. Some of the information is most appropriate for primary learners, such as the needs of a plant. Some of the information, however, is more directed at...
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Measuring the Effects of Gravistimulation on Plants
Students conduct an experiment to determine if a plant's response to gravity is affected by different angles of plant orientation.
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Creating A School Herbarium
Students create a school herbarium to develop a working assessment of common plants and become aware of plant diversity. They utilize pruners, a plant press, phone book, plant labels, a field plant guide and a classification key to...
Captain Planet Foundation
Rotting Away
What happens at the end of a plant's life cycle? Show kids the natural way that plants show that they're decomposing, as well as the importance of compost, with a lesson about living organisms. After reading Log Cabin by Anne Schreiber,...
Captain Planet Foundation
Which Plant Is Which?
Learn about dichotomous keys, plant identification, and how to care for the planet with a lesson that includes several hands-on and innovative activities. Kids go on a plant scavenger hunt and classify the plants that they find...
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Math in the Wetlands Field Trip
Get your class out in the environment for hands on math activities. In this wetlands lesson, learners transplant native plants, calculate how much soil is needed, and perform math activities based on this experience. They then make...
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The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students eat while they act as links in the food chain. Popcorn bags stand for food energy that is passed along the links in a food chain from the sun,...
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fun with Plants that We Use
Students become familiar with the products made from various plants. In this plants lesson, students experiment with natural dyes from plants. Students complete a list of things made from plants. Students answer questions about plant...
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Land Plants and Algae
Students compare and contrast algae and land plants. For this plant lesson students discover what algae and land plants require for growth. The students discuss experimental design. The students experiment with different treatments of...
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Plants vs. Animals
Students discuss the differences they can see between examples of animals and plants. In this science instructional activity, students draw or write what they have discussed about the examples. Students go on a nature walk to look...
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Growing plants
Students explore plants and recognize that they are living things that require light and water to grow; students identify, name and match the parts of plants.
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Plants and Animals In the Local Environment
In this identifying plants and animals in their environment worksheet, students draw pictures of plants or animals that are seen in the air, in water, and on land. Students draw 9 pictures.