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Parts of the Flower and Pollination
Students review the parts of the plant and recognize the parts that are important for pollination. For this pollination lesson, students illustrate and label the parts of a flower. Students compare different types of flowers.
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A Planting We Will Go
Even the youngest kids can make scientific comparisons using collected data. They read The Tiny Seed, then discuss the essential nutrients and elements needed for a seed to grow into a blooming plant. They plant seeds and track their...
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Bigger Flowers
Young scholars discuss flowers and their parts, examine works by Georgia O'Keeffe, and draw, color, or paint large flowers.
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Label the Parts of a Plant
In this parts of a plant learning exercise, learners practice labeling the four main essential parts of a plant: stem, flowers, roots and leaves.
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Make a Flower
In this flower cut out worksheet, students cut out the pieces of the flower and the labels. Students then assemble the flower on another sheet of paper and label each part. This worksheet contains 7 labels and 20 flower pieces.
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Dry Forest: Flowers
Learners explore botany by examining diagrams. In this plant reproduction instructional activity, students define a list of plant vocabulary terms and identify plant anatomy from a diagram. Learners complete several plant activity...
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Bigger Flowers
Students observe and compare real flowers and artists' paintings of flowers. They discuss a flower and its parts. Students discuss the color (color wheel) and are introduced to new vocabulary. They draw, color, or paint a large flower...
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Plant Science Activities
Young scholars complete several plant life activities. In this botany lesson, students practice painting images that resemble plants they are familiar with as well as planting seeds outside of class. Young scholars participate in a...
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Parts of a Plant
Students explore biology by listening to an in-class lecture. In this plant science lesson, students sing songs with their classmates regarding anatomical parts of a plant and create plants from arts and crafts materials. Students listen...
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Body Language
First graders investigate the three main parts of a plant. In this plant parts instructional activity, 1st graders explore vocabulary for the topic and read a story about plant parts. Students view a PowerPoint and take a quiz for...
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Understanding the Roots
Students investigate the parts of a flower. In this earth science instructional activity, students read the book The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds and identify various plant parts. Students construct a model of a flowering plant from...
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Learning the Parts of a Plant
First graders discover the anatomy of a plant by labeling a picture. In this botany lesson, 1st graders examine and dissect several real plants in class and define their different parts. Students utilize the Internet to view...
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Life Cycle of Brassica Plants: Planting Seeds
Students explore botany by participating in a calendar class activity. In this plant observation instructional activity, students examine a diagram of a Brassica plant and identify its anatomy before planting their own seeds and viewing...
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Flowers to Dye For
Students observe biology by completing a plant experiment in class. In this botany lesson, students discuss the anatomy related to a plant and how roots and stems are necessary to its survival. Students utilize food coloring and examine...
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Violets, Daffodils, Roses and Thorn
Fourth graders complete a variety of exercises and activities surrounding the scientific and artistic properties of the parts and processes of a plant/flower.
Desert Discoveries
Who Depends on the Saguaro?
Young scientists design a picture of a saguaro cactus that shows the cactus and some of the animals and plants that interact with it. There are many of these special relationships between plants and animals of the Sonoran Desert. Your...
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Going on a Seed Safari
Students describe biology by identifying different plants in class. For this seed lesson, students discuss the process of how a plant grows from seed to leaves. Students attend a field trip to their garden or another park and collect a...
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What Happens to a Seed?
In this creative instructional activity on seeds, 1st graders listen as the book The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle is read to them about the life of a seed. Students then draw a picture to show the life cycle of a seed in each season.
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Classifying Living and Non-Living Objects
Students investigate living organisms and define the properties of a living species. In this life characteristic lesson, students examine plants in their class and discuss whether or not they are alive. Students create a...
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Integrating Art Into Other Content Areas
Here are some ideas to help add an art lesson to every math, science, social studies, or language arts unit.
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Interior Design, Lesson 4
Students choose furnishings and accessories based on color, line, pattern, texture, shape, and mood. They discuss how interiors are affected by furniture arrangements and traffic patterns and examine furniture and make a grouping of...