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Help Wanted!
For this plant part worksheet, students read the classified advertisements and match each of the plant parts to the job descriptions provided.
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Sowing Seeds
Students observe earth science by participating in a planting activity. In this seeds lesson, students identify the process for seeds to transform into plants which eventually produce food. Students sow seeds in the ground and eventually...
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Mr. and Mrs. Cress Head
Students explore Earth science by completing a plant art project. For this botany lesson, students utilize tights and soil to create a furry, grassy puppet style animal from cress seeds. Students cut off the excess cress after several...
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Identify Plant Parts
Students use the word processor to write about the process they used to grow a plant. They import a graphic image of their plant into the document they have written, then proofread their document.
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Water: A precious resource
In this water worksheet, students watch a video on water, read a passage, complete sentences, write vocabulary words, and write a paragraph. Students complete 5 activities total.
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Chocolate Fever
Students study plants in the rainforest. They complete a variety of activities surrounding the subject of chocolate. They create new candy bars, invent learning games and write poetry--all focusing on chocolate.
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Plant Cells and Tissues
In this plants activity, students review 17 vocabulary words associated with the different types of plant cells and tissues. This activity has 17 matching questions.
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Dry Forest: Flowers
Pupils explore botany by examining diagrams. In this plant reproduction lesson plan, students define a list of plant vocabulary terms and identify plant anatomy from a diagram. Pupils complete several plant activity worksheets and study...
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Basic Units of Life
In this cells worksheet, students will review vocabulary words and information relating to the structure and function of plant and animal cells. This worksheet has 10 crossword puzzle questions, 6 multiple choice, 4 short answer...
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Alfalfa Butterfly/Caterpillar Lifecycle Investigation
Students collect and record data. They identify sex of butterflies. They make conclusions based on collected data.
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The Theory of Evolution
In this theory of evolution worksheet, students will review the role Charles Darwin played in the theory of evolution, natural selection, and adaptations. Students will explore some of the different types of evidence for the theory of...
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North American Butterflies and Moths of Fields, Meadows, and Fencerows
In this North American butterflies and moths worksheet, learners click on the links in the questions about North American butterflies and moths of fields, meadows, and fencerows to find the answers to the questions and then come back and...
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Learning to Give: Generosity of Spirit Folktales
Pupils read two Inuit folktales about life and death. In this language arts lesson, students study the models of giving found in these Inuit tales about life, death, grief, sacrifice, and generosity. As the class reads these tales, they...
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Turtle Legends
Students listen to the legend, Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back. They create a new moon for the calendar based on this natural part of everyday life in the seasons. They illustrate it under the story using water color paints.
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Your Own Greenhouse
Young science learners construct a greenhouse out of a plastic bottle. They use a nail to punch a hole through which a thermometer will be inserted to monitor the temperature. This simple experiment easily demonstrates the greenhouse...
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Hatchet
Students write about a time when they were in a situation where nature frightened them. They write about how Brian solved the problem of how to start a fire in the story. Students complete a short research paper on one of the plants or...
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Runoff: Intro to Watersheds
Students are taught that a watershed is, what types of basic land cover are impermeable and permeable to water. They trace the flow of water around their school and around their home. Students determine what watershed their school is a...
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How 'bout them bones!
After a lesson on the human skeleton, hand out a worksheet that requires learners to identify the pelvis, rib cage, skill, spine, and thigh bones. They draw a line from the name of the bone to its location on the skeleton. Tip: Instead...
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Start a Herbarium
Students explore importance of a herbarium and start one of their own.
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The Sum of the Parts
Second graders observe some everyday common objects in order to attempt to learn about simple systems and how they fit together. They observe small details in order to identify the parts of a whole design.
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Traits of Living Things
In this characteristics of living things worksheet, students will brainstorm five traits of living things and fill in a graphic organizer.
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The Making of Steel
Students begin to explain the process, and gain an appreciation, of the enormity of a steel facility and the influence it had on the building of the city to run the steel plant. They access websites imbedded in this plan to view the...
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Mendel Pea Plants
In this Mendelian genetics worksheet, students answer a variety of questions about Mendel's experiments and discoveries and they practice determining probability of outcomes in pea plants.
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Plants Vocabulary Maze
In this maze worksheet, students read the clues, spell the words in order, and navigate through the maze from start to the red letter s. Students solve 15 clues.