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Curated OER

Winer Survival

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students study how animals need water, food, shelter, and space to survive. They also study what animals need to survive in the winter. They play the part of animals and winter "threats" in a game of tag to reinforce concepts.
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Curated OER

This Is Tree-rific!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders view a clip of the video Backyard Safari, "Trees," and portray the life cycle of a tree. They also view a clip on structures of a tree and draw a diagram of a tree in their science journals.
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Curated OER

Vegetable Twister

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students review vegetables and their nutrient values and production. In this vegetable production worksheet, students read information about the nutrients in vegetables and how they are grown. Students participate in a game of Twister to...
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Curated OER

Crickets on the Hearth

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate how crickets behave in cold temperatures. In this life science lesson, students explain the beneficial and harmful effect of pests. They research ways to properly manage them.
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Curated OER

What's In A Name?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students analyze themselves as members of the community. They choose a name to describe themselves and explain why they choose the name they did. They identify activities they perform in and out of school to help the community.
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Curated OER

Plant Journal

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students measure the daily growth of plants in this technology-based science lesson that uses Timeliner to record student data. The lesson allows students practice at basic computer skills (typing/data entry).
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Curated OER

Bat Habitat

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders engage in a lesson to find the role of bats in the complexity of certain ecosystems. They identify where bats live and the daily role played in the ecosystem. Students also construct a bat house to help control the...
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Children's Museum

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Growing a Grass Head

For Teachers K - 1st
Students learn about germination, or the process by which an organism grows from a seed and witness how seeds use sun, water, and soil to turn into a fascinating head of grass.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: From Seed to Plant

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will use the illustrations and details in the text to describe how plants grow. This lesson uses a complex text to allow students to analyze the pictures in From Seed to Plant and From Seed to Pumpkin. Included are videos and...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade K: From Seed to Plant

For Teachers K Standards
Students gather information from a variety of texts- literary and informational- to describe the connection between people, events, ideas, and pieces of information. Students are introduced to life cycles by learning about how a plant...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Growing Lima Beans: Do We Really Need Dirt?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate different growth mediums for a lima bean seed: a wet paper towel and a paper cup with soil.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: From Seeds to Plants

For Teachers K - 1st
In this primary unit on plants, students use observational skills to compare and discuss the changes in plants. They identify plant parts, where seeds come from, and how they grow.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Plant Science Inquiry: From Seed to Flower

For Teachers K - 1st
After planting three flower seeds (same variety), students will observe changes and note details about how they grow by keeping a log book to record these changes over a period of 8-10 weeks.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Seeds to Plants: How to Grow a Plant

For Teachers K - 1st
An experiment where first-graders plant seeds and monitor their growth. Prior to planting, they decide on an inquiry question, and how they will find out the answer through the experiment.
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HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Kick Off Seed Explorations

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This simple lesson plan is designed to have young students become more familiar with fruit seeds by identifying fruit that contains seeds/no seeds, gathering seeds from fruit, explaining the importance of seeds, explaining that seeds...
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HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Planting Seeds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This simple lesson plan is designed to help young students be aware of how seeds sprout, and that seeds grow into plants.
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Science & Plants for Schools

Science & Plants for Schools: Teaching Resources

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A collection of teaching resources to help learners explore plants! Resources investigate anatomy of plants, reproduction and life cycles, fruits, seeds, classification, photosynthesis, factors that affect plant growth, and respiration....
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University of Florida

Florida Museum of Natural History: Plant Life

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This teacher's guide focuses on the fascinating world of plants. Through books and other print materials, and exploration of actual plants, children will identify plants as living things, examine the parts of plants, experiment with what...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Seeds: How They Grow

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The students will be collecting, germinating and planting seeds to show the process of plant growth. The students will be recording the information in their science journal. In addition, the students will be observing the water cycle as...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Sprouting Scientists!

For Teachers 1st
Observe and describe plants as they grow from seeds.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Acting Hot and Cold [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd
In this lesson, 3rd graders will explore heating and cooling through pantomime. By enacting the effect of sunlight on a snowman and a growing seed, students will learn scientific information kinesthetically.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Voices of Hope and Seeds of Peace (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan that draws on the work of the Seeds of Peace, an international organization of teenagers from troubled regions of the world (with a focus on the Middle East) that fosters meaningful dialogue among people with opposing...
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Elementary Globe: Earth System in a Bottle

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
If you have seeds at home, try this activity to help kids learn what a seed needs to grow. Students will create experimental conditions in terrariums to study what plants need to live. They will learn about the importance of the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Who Needs What?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
The teacher leads a discussion in which students identify the physical needs of animals, and then speculate on the needs of plants. With guidance from the teacher, the students then help design an experiment that can take place in the...

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