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Center for Educational Technologies

Wheeling Jesuit University: Arctic Tundra Biome

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides text and pictures on the arctic tundra, its animals, plants, and their adaptations.
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 7.2 Plant Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the evolution and change of plants over time.
Activity
Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Learning From Leaves [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
An investigation into how light levels affect leaf adaptations in plants.
Lesson Plan
Other

Nasa: The Case of the Prize Winning Plants [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
This program uses a scenario with fictional detective characters to present plant growth to students. While the unit focuses on the basic needs and parts of plants, the topics of plant classification and adaptations, soil formation and...
Activity
Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Rooting Into the Soil [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
An experiment to investigate the capacity of different soils to retain water, and how this impacts on the survival, evolution, and adaptations of plants. Extension activities are included.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Touch and Feel: Plant Adaptations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This introductory lesson centers on getting hands-on before getting drug into the vocabulary and nomenclature. In cooperative learning groups students will describe leaves in simple terms. Then, students will use various resources for...
Handout
Center for Educational Technologies

Earth Floor: Biomes: Desert Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
Site contains information on desert plants and plant adaptations. Offers links to biomes, a biome summary, how to read a climograph and more!
Handout
Curated OER

National Park Service: Arches National Park: Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about the cacti, grasses, lichens, trees, shrubs, and wildflowers that grow in Arches National Park, located in Moab, Utah. Focus is placed on the adaptations of these plants that allow survival in a desert habitat.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Interdependence and Adaptations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn about interdependence and adaptations through the needs of a common household plant.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Plant and Animal Habitats

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson explains plant and animal habitats with brilliant pictures and photos. It also includes discussion and non-Activote questions.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Gone With the Wind: An Experiment on Seed and Fruit Dispersal

For Students 3rd - 5th
If you have ever made a wish and blown the fluff of a dandelion, you have witnessed how some plants are adapted to spreading their seeds using the wind. The tiny, furry parachute allows the seeds to be picked up by the wind and to be...
Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Proficient Puppeteers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, young scholars create puppets for the characters in a Reader's Theater script called 'Georgia State Animals & Plants: Habitats and Adaptations.' The puppets showcase the adaptations for each plant or animal. Students...
Lesson Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Needs of Plants

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Each student will make his/her own mini-garden and will observe the growth and development of radishes. To help students learn about requirements for plant growth, the teacher will make four experimental gardens and place them in...
Activity
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: El Mantenimiento De La Especie

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about animal and plant reproduction: similarities and differences, coordination, relationship and adaptation.
Handout
World Wildlife Fund for Nature

World Wildlife Fund: Our Earth: Ecoregions: Habitats: Deserts

For Students 3rd - 5th
An overview of the climate conditions of deserts. Includes examples of plants and the adaptations that allow them to survive in the dry climate. Includes a link to information about animals that live in a desert habitat.
Handout
Ohio State University

Ohio State University: Anthophyta, Evolution & Diversity

For Students 9th - 10th
An online summary of the evolution of flowering plants at an advanced level. The text is supported by good illustrations and is followed by a quiz. This is a good review for exams.
Lesson Plan
Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Mini Ecosystems [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A lesson activity where learners create a terrarium inside a plastic bottle using a Venus Flytrap and other plants. They then observe growth and changes over time.
Handout
Center for Educational Technologies

Earth Floor: Biomes: Tropical Rainforest Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
Site offers information about tropical rainforest plants and plant adaptations. Offers links to other biomes as well.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Putting Down Roots

For Teachers 4th
Adaptations of plant roots and leaves are compared.
Website
Other

City of Austin: Watershed Protection Office: Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides guidance for what plants will survive the best in the Texas environment, and how to grow and protect them. There is information about native and adapted plants, invasive plant species, plants resistant to deer, backyard ponds,...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Nuclear Reaction: Meltdown

For Students 9th - 10th
What happens when a nuclear reactor overheats? This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE looks at the nuclear reactor meltdown at Chernobyl, the worst accident of its kind.
Handout
PBS

Pbs: Nova: A Plant With Smarts

For Students 9th - 10th
Not only are orchids tricky when it comes to being pollinated, they also have some tricks that help them survive in a competitive environment. Discover how orchids outwit insects to reproduce and how they have adapted to survive in their...
Activity
Tramline

Virtual Field Trip: Temperate Forest Biome

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Travel with your students on a Virtual Field Trip to learn about Temperate Forest Biomes. You will also discover many informative and interactive websites.
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mitosis

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment, adapted from the Interactive Secret of Life videodisc, explains the stages of mitosis, the process of dividing equally a cell's massive jumble of DNA just prior to cell division. [1:34]

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