Lesson Plan
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Plant Pollution

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study the different parts of a flower and their functions.  In this pollination lesson students study a flower under a microscope. 
Lesson Plan
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Flowers: Form and Function

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students recognize and name the parts of a flower. They explain the function of each part of a flower. Students list the steps that occur for sexual reproduction of a plant to take place. They recognize and name the male reproductive...
Lesson Plan
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Life Cycle of Brassica Plants: Planting Seeds

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore botany by participating in a calendar class activity. In this plant observation lesson, students examine a diagram of a Brassica plant and identify its anatomy before planting their own seeds and viewing the changes over...
Lesson Plan
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Pollination

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss pollination and how bees pollinate flowers. In this pollination lesson plan, 3rd graders draw the pollination process on a piece of paper.
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Life cycles

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify and explain the parts of a flower and their role in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed dispersal and germination using the Internet. Students will also study and discuss the key points and...
Interactive
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Parts of the Seed

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this biology worksheet, students read about the parts of plant seeds and look at a seed diagram. They read about the roots, endosperm, embryo, and the process of germination. They answer 8 online multiple choice questions based on the...
Lesson Plan
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Yummy Plant Parts

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students 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 between the...
Worksheet
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Plant Parts And What They Do (5.2)

For Students 4th - 6th
In this identifying plant parts and what they do worksheet, students answer multiple choice, true and false, and fill in the blanks with the best vocabulary words. Students write fifteen answers.
Lesson Plan
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Pollination of Flowers by Moths

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Turn your classroom into a pollination station as your kids transform into moths or predators trying to survive and aiding in plant reproduction along the way. Using silent party blowers as proboscises, the moths will have two minutes to...
Lesson Plan
National Wildlife Federation

Pollinator's Journey: Grades 9-12

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Gain a deeper understanding of migratory pollinators. After studying about pollinators and their effects on flowering plants, learners hear a story about the migration of Monarch butterflies and bats in the Sonoma Desert. Small groups...
Worksheet
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Plant Parts

For Students K - 2nd
In this identifying plant parts worksheet, students use a word bank to label the flower, stem, root, and leaf on an illustration of a plant and to fill in the blanks to complete sentences. Students write six short answers.
Lesson Plan
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What Is A Plant?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore plants. In this plant lesson, students examine organisms to determine which are plants. During this introductory lesson, students explore characteristics of living things.
Activity
New South Wales Department of Education

Plant Features

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Pine needles are actually modified leaves. In the 16th installment of 20, young scientists explore plants. Through an analysis of leaves — shape, veins, and edges — pupils see how to classify plants based on structural features.
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Chicago Botanic Garden

Preparing for Project BudBurst

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Male deer growing antlers to begin the breeding season is an example of a phenological event. First in a four-part series is an activity requiring individuals to collect phenological data on their campus. Classes discuss phenology, the...
Lesson Plan
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Pocket Full of Posies: Ceramics

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
After studying the plant or flower life cycle, have the class create a basket of flowers out of clay. They hone their ceramics skills while they push, pull, then paint clay to look like flowers they've seen in nature. There are several...
PPT
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Introduction to Plants

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A vast overview of avascular and vascular plants, this PowerPoint displays all of the notes your botanists need to take. It lists primitive plant groups and their characteristics. It separates gymnosperms and angiosperms, also detailing...
Lesson Plan
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Party with Plants

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students watch a video on plant parts and identify the function of plant parts. In this plants lesson plan, students identify the parts of plants they eat and relate it back to the food pyramid and perform math problems as they do this.
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Smarty Plants

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students examine plants and pollinators. In this plant biology lesson, students read The Power of Pollinators and identify the parts of the plant and the pollinators. Students design their own imaginary plants.
Lesson Plan
California Academy of Science

Plants: Hanging Tough

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Learning about the rainforest can be more fun than you think. The class discusses vocabulary-in-context as they cut cardboard boxes, destined to become part of a rainforest model. Small groups of children color, cut, and construct...
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A Wild Chain Reaction

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore habitats. In this habitat  lesson, students break into groups and are labeled as a part of a habitat. Students then do an activity with yarn that shows how all of the parts are connected and depend on each...
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Flowers to Dye For

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners 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. Learners utilize food coloring and examine...
Organizer
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Parts of a Plant

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this plant parts worksheet, students will write down the 5 things that make up a plant. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.
Lesson Plan
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Celebration of Trees

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to various, grade appropriate stories about trees. They create their own construction paper trees and discuss the importance of trees to the ecosystem and the importance of taking care of them. Finally, 2nd graders...
Worksheet
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Seed Plant Reproduction

For Students 4th - 8th
In this plant reproduction worksheet, students will conduct an experiment to see how much pollen a flower makes. Then students will use their data collected to complete 3 short answer questions.