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Plant Detectives

For Teachers K - 2nd
Exploration of the school grounds and thought images are used to demonstrate the many uses of plants.
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Plant Poetry

For Students 2nd - 6th
In this poetry worksheet, students complete a poem about plants and insert the right wording to each line. Students complete 10 lines of the poem with specific directions.
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Paper by FiftyThree

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
There is no such thing as someone who is not artistic when using this app. In fact, this is the type of app that makes you want to go out and buy a tablet computer. Whether you have a creative lesson planned, or just need a place to take...
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Growing Plants in Science and Literature, More Than an Empty Pot

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students read The Empty Pot as an introduction to plants. In this planting lesson, students understand a sequence of events in the book and relate it to the sequence of a plants life. Students grow plants and record information in flower...
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fun with Plants that We Use

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students become familiar with the products made from various plants.  For this plants lesson, students experiment with natural dyes from plants.  Students complete a list of things made from plants. Students answer questions about plant...
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Out on a Limb: Earth Day

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners understand the importance of trees to the environment and their community. In this Earth Day lesson plan, students discuss the value of trees and plan a project to plant trees. Learners understand the role of an environmentalist...
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No Magic Borders: Haleakala Style

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss borders and boundaries. They discuss pollution and the fact that boundaries cannot stop pollution and that pollution affects even protected wildlife and plants. They participate in an activity in which they must place...
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Mountains

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Explore the mountain habitat with this collection of slides. The climate is described, along with the associated plant and animal life. Some of the pictures are attractive, but some leave much to be desired. There is a generous amount of...
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Flower Building Long Vowel Game

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Reading can be as lovely as a walk through the garden! Sets of flowers host words that share long vowel sounds, which kids match to the correct flowerpots.
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Plants Vocabulary Maze

For Students 4th - 6th
In this maze learning exercise, 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.
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Africa

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils create a poster showing how two different cultures strive for beauty.
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Plants Vocabulary Decoder Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this plant vocabulary worksheet, students match the letter of the plant vocabulary word to the number next to the definition. Students complete this for 15 words.
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Native Americans and Native Plants

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students take a field trip to a native plant culture. They need to describe where the plants were before the Europeans occupied North America.
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Punctuating Sentences

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar activity, students read and punctuate correctly ten sentences associated with a strange desert plant. Students share their findings with their classmates.
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From One Seed Grow Many Seeds

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice identifying plants by singing a song.  In this plant life lesson, 1st graders sing the song "Parts of a Plant" which is based on the anatomy of sunflowers.  Students discover agriculture techniques while viewing a...
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Sanctuaries-Providing a Safe Harbor

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate the role of marine sanctuaries in the conservation of oceans and the lives of plant and animal species that live there. They write poetry to exhibit what they learn.
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Diverse Environments

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Students explore life forms in different environments. After exploring different biomes within their state, students research different plant and animal species within each biome. They prepare a group report on one feature of the region...
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The Joy of a Garden-Earth Day

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore the purpose of a garden. In this Earth Day lesson, students read the story The Gardener and complete a Venn diagram comparing life in a city to farm life. Students discuss Earth Day and plant flowers in a garden .
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God's Creation

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore religion by analyzing the state of the country. In this American creation lesson plan, 2nd graders read that God created the world and therefore the United States and all of the beautiful things within the country....
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Plants Spiral Puzzle

For Students 4th - 6th
In this plants crossword, students solve clues for parts and definitions of plants to complete the crossword. Students complete 8 spaces in the crossword.
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Flower Power: An Introduction to Heredity

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars observe flowers and how they grow according to heredity. In this flowers lesson plan, students observe physical traits that make flowers the offspring of other flowers, and fill out worksheets according to their findings.
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Pumpkin Patch

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a pumpkin art project that outlines the life cycle of a pumpkin in order to learn the growth process of this particular vegetable. In this pumpkin art lesson, students first review the life cycle of a pumpkin as a class,...
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Flowering Philanthropy

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students plant flowers for others. They care for flowers. They summarize experiences through drawing, discussions and writing.
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Field Trip to San Bruno

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers contrast a weedy annual grassland of introduced species with an undisturbed, ancient plant community of native bunchgrasses and wildflowers.