Worksheet
Curated OER

Ecosystem Worksheet

For Students 4th - 5th
In this environment activity, students find the words that are related to the ecosystem. The vocabulary is used to help develop environmental awareness.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Flipbook Succession

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students review succession charts for their native area before going to an outside site to view the changes. At the site, they follow the transect line and observe the changes in the plant life. They draw the changes on note cards that...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Investigating Soil Color and Texture"

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders will identify/understand the differences between soil and dirt. They will classify soil color accurately and use Munsell notation to describe it (Munsell books provided).Students will classify soil texture using the feel...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pollinators and Wildflowers

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore how plants depend on pollinators to reproduce.  In this pollination instructional activity students dissect a local flower and collect and identify pollinating insects. 
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What Plants Need in Order to Survive and Grow: Air

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students conduct an experiment to determine whether plants need air in order to survive and grow. They discuss natural resources, analyze slides, and observe and record data from the experiment.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Five Little Seeds"

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders complete various activities related to the plant life cycle. They read the book "The Tiny Seed," read and discuss the poem "Five Little Seeds," complete a "Plantenstein Mystery" and other online activities, write and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Peanut Butter Broccoli - Creating New Produce Through Genetic Selection

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders understand that traits are inherited and change over time. In this physical traits lesson, 5th graders compare produce items for similar traits. Students create large graphs to show their results. Students discuss genetic...
Interactive
Curated OER

Bluebirds Ecology Vocabulary Exercise

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this bluebirds worksheet, students categorize bluebird species found in their state and define vocabulary related to it. Students complete 6 vocabulary words.
Interactive
Curated OER

Ecology Vocabulary

For Students 5th - 8th
In this ecology activity, students read the vocabulary words and then categorize a species found in a field, meadow, or fencerow in their state or region. Students complete 6 problems.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

THE FARMER CARES FOR THE LAND

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will identify cause and effect relationships in issues relating to Agriculture and the environment.Ask students to describe what farmers do. Then ask students to define the word "environmentalist." Ask students if they have...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

It All Starts With a Seed

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners use laboratory equipment safely. They identify structures in a seed. They distinguish between monocots and dicots. They search for information using the computer.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What's For Dinner?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore the food chain. They brainstorm and create a consumer-consumed food chains using magazine pictures and research materials. Students identify consumer-consumed relationships.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Bugsicles (A Frozen Insect Larva You can Find!)

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Pupils explore how animals survive in the winder. After attending a gall-collecting field trip, students place them in a freezer. Once frozen, the pupils open the gall flay larva and observe it as the larva revives. Students discuss...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Kingdom Protista Crossword

For Students 7th
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, 7th graders read the definitions that relate to the protista kingdom and then complete the crossword puzzle.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Grass is Always Greener

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders experiment with common grass and cellular division.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

It's Okay to Exhale: Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars will observe the differences between photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Then they observe the links due to climate changes and relate how climate change affects their lives.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pulse

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students determine a baseline pulse rate then chart the changes in rate with exercise. They describe the changes and develop a rationale for their observations. The task assesses students' abilities to make simple observations, determine...
Handout
CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Plant Organs

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the concepts and skills from Grades 9-12 Biology to relate the structure of each of the major plant organs and tissues to physiological processes. Enhance familiarity with the structure, function, and evolutionary origins of plant...
Handout
Other

Stuttgard High School: Plant Structure & Function

For Students 9th - 10th
Site features high school-level comprehensive info on the structure and function of seed plants organized into shoot and root systems. While presented with lots of detail, clear illustrations and animations help make sense of the parts...
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Plant Kingdom: Algae: Lesson 1

For Students 7th - 8th
This lesson will explain the characteristics and function of algae plants. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Plant Kingdom: Algae."
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Plant Kingdom: Algae: Lesson 3

For Students 7th - 8th
This lesson will explain the characteristics and function of algae plants. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Plant Kingdom: Algae."
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Patterns in Nature

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment [3:25] from Cyberchase, a plant expert shows Bianca the patterns and symmetry found in nature.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Observe, Describe, Compare and Contrast Cells

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This investigation allows students to observe cells from multiple sources. Plant, animal and bacterial cells will be observed as well as cells from multicellular organisms and single-celled organisms. After providing written descriptions...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Carbon 14 Dating in Practice Ii

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This problem introduces Carbon 14 dating which is used by scientists to date certain organic material. This version is based on the ratio of Carbon 14 to Carbon 12, which decreases at a constant exponential rate after an organism dies....