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Nitrogen Fixation, OR What a Gas!
Learners illustrate the adaptation and co-evolution of organisms. They examine set up an experiment to determine the effect of adding the Rhizobium bacteria to a group of legume seeds.
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Little Bloomers: Gardening With Trees
Learners identify the parts of tree flowers. They examine the role they have in pollination. They discuss trees that do not flower as well.
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A GROWING MARKET
Middle schoolers reasearch and grow a plant and present findings. They are told that bedding plant is the name for young plants grown. Students choose one plant to research and they use their worksheet to create an information sheet...
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The Young Virginia Gardener:Growing Seeds Indoors
In this gardening activity, students read about growing seeds indoors, then complete 4 short answer questions based on the passage.
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The Young Virginia Gardener: Create a Plant
In this gardening learning exercise, students draw a plant on a poster board, cutting out pictures of vegetables from magazines and gluing them on the leaves of their drawn plant in the proper places: stem vegetables, fruit vegetables...
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Rabbit Hill Gardening Planning Sheet
In this garden planning learning exercise, students complete a chart in which students choose 3 plants that can be food for one of 5 specified animals. Students determine the space needed between the plant rows, the number of rows needed...
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Using the Herb Garden at Blakesley Hall
In this Blakesley Hall herb garden instructional activity, students explore the herb garden at Blakesley Hall. This instructional activity gives suggestion for activities while on this field trip.
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The Young Virginia Gardener: Container Gardening: Starting and Transplanting Seeds
In this gardening activity, students read a short passage about starting and transplanting seeds, then check names of plants they will put in their garden, noting whether they have started it from seed or purchased it from a store.
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Introduce Vocabulary: The Surprise Garden
Students explore English by reading children stories in class. In this tier two vocabulary activity, students read the book The Surprise Garden and identify the settings, plot and characters. Students define a list of vocabulary words...
Illustrative Mathematics
To Multiply or not to multiply?
When do you multiply a fraction by a fraction? Here, fifth graders are given 10 different word problems and asked to decide if multiplying 2/5 x 1/8 is appropriate. Many times, real-world word problems sound similar although the required...
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Let's Learn About Plants!
Take your class on a nature walk around the school and have children assume the role of "Plant Hunter" as they go. The goal is to explore the different parts of a plant. They return to the classroom to discuss the parts that they saw and...
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Reading Comprehension 1: Level 11
Here’s a reading comprehension assessment that will capture the interest of your learners. Stink bugs and the danger they pose to farmers is the subject of the passage, while the eight questions ask readers to infer, predict, summarize...
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Perimeter and Area of Complex Figures
In this perimeter and area worksheet, students solve 6 word problems where they must determine the perimeter or area of complex figures. Diagrams are provided and real world applications like gardens and carpeting are used in the problems.
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Landscaping for Wildlife
Students identify the essential elements needed for promoting wildlife habitat. They describe the terms used in habitat design and the shelter for wildlife. Students explore how to create a pond to support wildlife and how to create a...
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Tree Top Canopy Field Trip
Students visit the Greenheart Canopy Walkway. In this environmental lesson, students experience a coastal rain forest ecosystem. Students interact and explore the different layers of the rain forest.
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Teaching about the Rainforest - Classroom Ideas
Students are introduced to the tropical rainforest through different ways that catch their attention such as: Visit a local botanical garden or conservatory so that students can see the variety of tropical plants in the world. They...
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Medieval and Renaissance Art: Botanical Symbolism
Students study the significance of flowers in art from two periods. In this Medieval and Renaissance art lesson, students research the presence and meaning of botanical illustrations in twelfth, thirtieth, and fourteenth century...
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Photographical Ecology
Students study organisms and the roles they play in nature. In this ecology lesson, students photograph several examples of organisms during a nature walk. Students print out their photos and classify the organisms as plants or animals.
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Nature Oriented Kindness Projects
Young scholars complete various nature activities where they work together to create a butterfly garden, plant flowers, learn about nature survival, and more. In this nature lesson plan, students work together in groups and display...
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Sequence Writing: Life Cycles - Plant Life
Young scholars investigate the stages of plant life. Students create a K-W-L chart. They describe six main stages of the plant life cycles. Using stickers, young scholars create a life cycle flow map.
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Container Gardening: Direct Seeding
In this science experiment worksheet, students record a check next to the 10 plants that they plan on growing in containers. Students place their containers in full sunlight.
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State Flower
Students discover what their state flower is. In this art lesson, students design their state flower and get seeds to plant the flower in a garden. Students also decorate a small empty milk carton planting the flower in a smaller ara to...
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
For this science worksheet, students will plant some birdseed on a sponge to see if there is anything inside the seeds. Students will keep a record of how the seeds change over several days.
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab
In this vocabulary worksheet, students determine the best choice from the word bank to complete the sentence. All words are challenging and start with the letter "K."