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Science & Plants for Schools

Science & Plants for Schools: Pollination, Fertilization, Fruits [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Great PDF to teach students about plant reproduction and life cycle. There are many teacher printables.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Plants: Plant Cells

For Students 6th - 8th
A slideshow accompanied by music and text, a karaoke song to sing along to, and a 7-question multiple-choice quiz on the topic of plant cells.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Plants: Flowers

For Students 3rd - 5th
A video and a 7-question multiple-choice quiz on the structure and functions of flowers.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Protist

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides information on the biological kingdom protista, including a list of different divisions of the kingdom.
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Texas A&M University

Wildflowers in Bloom: Wildflowers

For Students 9th - 10th
Start wildflowers from seed, find out what your hardiness zone is, learn about seed germination and sunlight needs of plants. All this and more.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Like Plants [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
"I Like Plants" is a one page, realistic fiction, reading passage about a person who loves plants and became a botanist; now she teaches her college students about plants and ecology. It is followed by constructed-response questions...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Plants: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain the role of plants in everyday life. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Plants."
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Biology 4 kids

Biology4 Kids: A General Plant Structure

For Students 3rd - 8th
Read about the basic structure of plants in this short, informational reference piece.
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Biology 4 kids

Biology4 Kids: Plants Vascular Systems

For Students 3rd - 8th
A brief, concise text explaining the vascular systems of plants.
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Bio Topics

Bio Topics: Competition

For Students 5th - 9th
Find out about what types of resources different species will compete to obtain. Answer competition questions by mousing over different pictures of animal and plants.
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Other

Garden Club of America: Good Gardening Practices to Protect Your Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
An information sheet on how to protect the environment while growing a garden. Can be downloaded as a PDF document.
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Other

Cincinnati Museum Center

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes the Museum of Natural History and Science in detail and provides links to other programs and exhibits offered.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Importance of Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the importance of plants to life on Earth.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Leaves

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses different types of leaves and seasonal changes in leaves.
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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Classifying Living Things

For Students 4th - 7th
Learn how all living things are classified.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Agnes Arber

For Students 9th - 10th
This short biography about Agnes Arber describes her contributions to botanical science.
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Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum: The Endeavor Botanical Illustrations

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed collection of plant paintings by Sydney Parkinson, whose work on the HMS Endeavour helped further scientific discovery.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Seed Racer

For Students 1st - 5th
This PBS Kids activity is an extension of a Plum Landing episode featuring seed dispersal. Students will play a game in which they collect seeds. Students will collect different types of seeds, and then students will learn facts...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Planting Thoughts

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students gain an understanding of the parts of a plant, plant types and how they produce their own food from sunlight through photosynthesis. They also learn about transpiration, the process by which plants release moisture to the...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Angiosperm Life Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the life cycle of angiosperms.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Plant Adaptations

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] An overview of how plants have adapated to their environments.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Plant Classification

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Compares nonvascular and vascular plants.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Roots

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the structure, function, and growth of roots.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Seed Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the parts of a seed and the classification and evolution of seed plants.