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Yummy Plant Parts
Middle schoolers examine plant parts. For this botany lesson, students examine various edible plants and how their adaptations help them to grow. They observe stems, leaves, roots and flowers of plants and discuss the relationship...
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Science: Bees: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Students investigate the world of bees and describe their characteristics. by identifying the bees' parts, they demonstrate how these parts function. In the lab, students dissect bees and view the various parts under microscopes. ...
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Flower Power: Kansas Quarter Reverse
Learners examine the Kansas quarter reverse and explore the basic needs and life processes of plants. They take a nature walk around the school and draw living and non-living things. In the classroom the sort the specimens collected into...
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What Bees Eat
Students study plant and animal interdependence by studying bees and pollination. In this interdependence lesson, students discuss flower parts and dissect it to show its reproductive parts. Students then use tissue and pipe cleaners to...
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Get to The Root of It!
Students study a real plant to explore its parts. They discover the function of the plant parts which they diagram and label.
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Edible and Medicinal Plants: Field Trip Guide
Though it's designed to guide a field trip to the New York Botanical Garden, you could take resource like this one to a local park, wilderness area, school garden, or even a weedy empty lot. Middle schoolers identify plant parts and...
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Plants And Pollination
Students describe sexual reproduction in plants, including the process of pollination, how insects assist in pollination, and how pollination differs from fertilization. They also explore the importance of honey bees to Arizona agriculture.
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Who's in my soil!?!...and just what do they think they're doing there?
Students discover organisms that inhabit the soil, the beneficial an detrimental roles these organisms play, and the interactions between the organisms and their environment and other organisms. Students participate in four hands-on ...
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Plant Life
Seventh graders examine different categories of plant life and their roles as producers of food and oxygen for other organisms. They study the evolution of plants from simple organisms to very complex ones. They look at the different...
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Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Investigation: Dissect a Flower [Pdf]
A lab activity where students carefully dissect a flower and learn about its different parts. Materials may require sharp dissection instruments. Includes extension activities and test preparation questions.
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Alex: Flower Anatomy
Flower Anatomy helps a student to visualize the floral parts. Students can disect the flower after they have viewed and identified all parts. A student can take the dissected parts and create a word wall using colored paper or posterboard.
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Middle School Science: Flower Dissection [Pdf]
In this lab experiment site, you will learn the parts of the flower, compare male and female anatomy, determine if the male or female parts are longer and what advantage that might have in fertilization.