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\nNature of Teaching: Informal Curricula\n

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\nThe Nature of Teaching curriculum provides activity-focused resources designed for nature centers, field days, and 4-H clubs. Young scholars study and identify birds, build feeders for local birds, create exploding seed balls that they...\n
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\nMoon Munchies: Human Exploration Project and Engineering Design Challenge\n

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\nNASA and the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, or ITEEA, present young scientists with a challenge: design and build lunar plant growth chambers so that astronauts can grow edible plants on the moon. Class...\n
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\nThe Science of Food\n

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\nAlchemy in the kitchen? A collection explains the science behind the food chain. Videos and support materials cover everything from yummy things like cheese, to chocolate, to sourdough bread, from science topics like genetically...\n
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\nHow to Grow Plants from Seed: How to Plant Seeds\n

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\nA long time gardener walks the viewer through the steps of planting seeds in a seed tray. This is a quality video but basic in content. It is directed at someone who has never planted seeds before, so you could use it to prepare...\n
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\nGardening Project-Learning to Grow Seeds\n

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\nStudents demonstrate how to plant seeds. In this gardening lesson plan, students read the book The Tiny Seed and identify the steps to planting a seed. Students plant their own lima bean seeds in plastic cups and watch it grow.\n
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\nPlant Seeds\n

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\nThe concepts of a year, and the changing of the seasons are very important concepts to reinforce with young learners. Here, pre-kindergartners and kindergartners begin to understand the concept of one year, the passing of time, and the...\n
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\nWhat Plants Need in Order to Survive and Grow: Light\n

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\nStudents conduct an experiment to evaluate whether plants need light to survive and grow. They observe and gather data about plant responses to different growth regimes, analyze the data, and make conclusions about basic plant needs.\n
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\nPlanting Pumpkins\n

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\nStudents plant pumpkins. In this agriculture instructional activity, students use pumpkin seeds, mulch, and shovels to plant seeds from a pumpkin. Students observe the changes during each season.\n
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\nLet There Be Light\n

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\nStudents plant seeds and learn about photosynthesis.  In this photosynthesis lesson, students plant watercress seeds, cut a design into cardboard and cover the seedlings with the cardboard.  Students observe as the seeds in the...\n
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\nCelebrating Earth Day\n

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\nStudents explore environmental safety by planting seeds outside their classroom. In this Earth Day lesson, students identify the different ways to recycle and conserve resources on Earth while facilitating recycling bins around campus....\n
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\nChapter One: The Importance of Soil\n

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\nThe grammar is problematic on several of the slides in this collection, but the information is generally accurate. If you don't mind making a some corrections rather than starting from scratch, this presentation will save you some...\n
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\nPlant Power\n

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\nOne of the most amazing processes for youngsters to witness in class is the germination of a seed, and the subsequent growth of the plant. Here is a version of this classic lesson plan that is actually quite good! There is meaningful...\n
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\nFlower Power\n

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\nAn 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...\n
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\nDesperate Houseplants\n

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\nIn this episode of \"Desperate Houseplants\" two houseplants find out they aren't getting what they need. They need water and sunlight. Thankfully, the gardener notices the state they're in and gives them water and sun.\n
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\nLife Cycle of Brassica Plants: Planting Seeds\n

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\nStudents explore botany by participating in a calendar class activity. In this plant observation activity, students examine a diagram of a Brassica plant and identify its anatomy before planting their own seeds and viewing the changes...\n
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\nPlanting Seeds\n

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\nFor this literacy learning exercise, students use a word bank to create a story about planting seeds.\n
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\nReading Adventure Pack: Gardening\n

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\nA Reading Adventure Pack invites scholars to start gardening. Following a reading of two books—fiction and nonfiction—young green thumbs repurpose food containers to grow an herb garden in their kitchen, plant seeds in starter pots out...\n
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\nBenefits of Indoor Plants\n

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\nStudents diagram a plant. In this Science lesson plan, students explore the concept of photosynthesis focusing on the oxygen production. Students calculate the amount of plants needed to filter the air in their classroom.\n
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\nWhere Do Plants Get Their Food?\n

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\nPlants need food to survive, just like any other living organism. Young biologists analyze an experiment performed in 1610 by Jan van Helmont to determine if plant nutrition is obtained through the soil. First, lab groups work together...\n
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\nWhat Plants Need to Grow\n

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\nWhat do seeds need in order to grow into plants? This presentation follows what happened every four days during a seed growth and observation study. Images compare how well two sets of seeds did under specific circumstances. Use this to...\n
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\nWhich Plants Grew Best?\n

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\nThis presentation gives a visual account of a class's experiment growing sprouts under different conditions. There are three containers with the same soil and the same seeds. One of the containers got water, but no light. One got light,...\n
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\nPlant Seedling\n

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\nStudents label seed parts and plant seeds. In this seeds lesson plan, students observe and learn about how seeds play a huge role in all plants and food.\n
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\nGrowing Shamrocks!\n

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\nStudents discover Irish heritage by planting seeds.  In this botany lesson, students utilize a shamrock cookie cutter to create a form which they can grow alfalfa inside.  Students observe the plant growing over the next few...\n
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\nWhat We Need\n

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\nFirst graders identify basic needs of plants. In this plant growth instructional activity, 1st graders observe types of plants and review the parts of a plant as well as the development of a seed. Students review related...\n
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