Lesson Plan
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TREE PARTS

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
The student will identify main and secondary parts of a tree.1. Help students brainstorm and list the many ways we use trees every day (most paper goods, firewood, building materials, etc.). 2. Share background information. 3. Read...
Lesson Plan
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Most Troublesome Exotic Invasive Plant Species Web Quest

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students participate in a Web Quest activity in which they identify common exotic invasive plant species of the Southern Appalachian Region. After identifying the top 10 exotic invasive species, they choose one to research in depth.
Interactive
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Explorit's Foodplant Quiz

For Students 5th - 6th
In this plants worksheet, students complete a five question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about plants grown for food.
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Tagging Race

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine and identify plant parts to recognize specific weeds, identify three different weeds, discern differences in weeds quickly, evaluate classmates' weed recognition, and discuss what strategies they used to identify weeds.
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Environment: Valley Walk-A-Thon

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners go on a nature hike and observe the different plants along their route. Various plants are circled with hula hoops and identified with flash cards. Older students write in their journals about their hiking experience while the...
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Plants Reproduce and Grow in Various Ways

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders take a walk around the outside of the school and examine their clothing to see if they picked up any seeds while on their walk. They discuss how seeds travel and how a new plant thus can form. They then observe root...
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Salinity Of Soil

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the contents of various types of soil to determine the differences in salinity levels. They conduct an experiment of observing the plants in the different soils. Students then determine survival rates by...
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Daisy

For Teachers K
Students build proper painting techniques. They discover how to hold a paintbrush, apply paint to the brush, apply paint to the paper, the parts of a paintbrush, and how to clean a brush. The demonstrate how to apply paint to the paper...
Lesson Plan
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Goobers. Goobers? Goobers!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students begin the lesson by noting the many ways in which to use peanuts. In groups, they use the internet to research the work of George Washington Carver. They discover the allergies and nutritional information of the peanut and...
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Five a Day

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students look up and print definitions of fruit and vegatable. They write down their food intake for three days. They identify and categorize fruits and vegetables. They research how fruits and vegetables grow. They bring in their...
Worksheet
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Fungi and Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
In this biology worksheet, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms pertaining to fungi and plants. There are 31 biology terms located in the word search.
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Spot the Differences

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
In this spot the difference worksheet, students analyze pictures of two different creeping thistles to see if they can find six differences between the two.
Organizer
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Relationships and Biodiversity Lab Practice

For Students 9th - 12th
In this biodiversity worksheet, students determine the relationship and complete the evolutionary tree for the plants listed. Students review genetic code and DNA sequencing. This worksheet has 1 graphic organizer, 8 multiple choice, and...
Worksheet
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Number Patterns and Sequences

For Students 5th - 6th
In this number patterns and sequences worksheets, students complete activities for number patterns and sequences including Fibonacci's Sequence, lines, regular polygons, and towers. Students complete 15 problems.
Worksheet
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Which Word Doesn't Belong?

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this grouping words worksheet, students explore word meanings. Students are given ten sets of four words and are to determine which word doesn't belong in the group.
Interactive
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Explorit's Biology Quiz

For Students 4th - 5th
In this biology worksheet, students complete a five question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about animal and plant biology.
Lesson Plan
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Terrariums for Project Pals

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify the components needed by plants to survive in the terrarium. In this biology instructional activity, students build their own terrariums using materials available. They present their project in class.
Lesson Plan
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How Does Your Garden Grow?

For Teachers K
Students explore plant life by reading books about gardening. For this botany lesson, students read the books From Seed to Plant and Oh Say Can You Seed? while identifying the necessary elements to raising a healthy plant. Students view...
Activity
Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenge: Build a Blooming Flower

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Can you create a blooming flower that would attract pollinators? This Curiosity Machine project challenges students to make this flower using common household items. Site includes a place for students to document their process as well as...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Glowing Flowers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Student teams learn about engineering design of green fluorescent proteins (GFPs) and their use in medical research, including stem cell research. They simulate the use of GFPs by adding fluorescent dye to water and letting a flower or...
Interactive
Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Flower Power: Ordering Decimals, Fractions & Percents

For Students 6th - 8th
In this game, you must put fractions, decimals, and percents in the correct order. These appear on the blooms of a flower stem, which at full growth, have seven blooms. When these are in the correct sequence, you can harvest the flower,...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: The Parts of a Flower

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart illustrates the parts of a flower. Students have opportunities to label and answer content questions about flowers.
Activity
Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Color Changing Carnations

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A popular plant experiment where food coloring is added to the water that flowers sit in, to see how this affects the color of the flowers. It demonstrates how water travels through the xylem of a flower stem.
Handout
Palomar Community College District

Palomar College: Parasitic Flowering Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
The ecology and natural history of plants that live at the expense of other organisms is described in detail at this site from the Palomar College. Great material for a report or presentation.