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Curated OER

Living Things Experience Diverse Life Cycles

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders will study and explain the meaning of growth, development, and life cycle. They describe how plants grow and develop and observe an animal to show how it grows, changes, and reproduces throughout its life.
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Curated OER

PLANT PARTS WE EAT

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students identify an assortment of vegetables and learn how to locate the parts humans use for food. Students identify the plant parts we eat. Students color the pictures on their worksheets as provided. Students match the plants to the...
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Curated OER

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...
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Curated OER

Flower Power

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore parts of the flower. In this plant biology lesson, students dissect flowers and identify how the seeds are formed. Students take a nature walk to pick flowers for future dissections.
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Curated OER

Two Beets Or Not Two Beets—What Is Your Question?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students use the scientific method to test an idea regarding the structures of a plant as it supports the biological evidence for life. In this growing roots lesson, students use organizing sheets to record their findings. Students...
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Curated OER

Pollinators and Wildflowers

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore how plants depend on pollinators to reproduce.  In this pollination lesson students dissect a local flower and collect and identify pollinating insects. 
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Curated OER

Flower Power

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Young scholars explore the parts of flowers and how they reproduce. They dissect flowers and observe the reproductive organs. Students observe anthers and ovaries of Tiger Lilies under a microscope. They investigate how insects and...
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Curated OER

Flowers and Pollination

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore the environment by researching plant reproduction. In this pollination lesson, students define botany related vocabulary terms such as disc flower, petal and fertilization. Students dissect a flower with their classmates...
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Garden Earth Naturalist Club

Parts of a Flower! Flower Dissection

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Sometimes the best way to learn about plants is to see the different parts of a plant yourself. Groups of learners dissect flowers to answer questions about what they observe and what they wonder about their flower.
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Curated OER

Don't Wait, Just Propagate

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore the process of growing plants from seed. In this propagation lesson, students examine methods of propagation and determine how to rapidly propagate plant species. Students listen to a lecture informing them on the topic...
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Curated OER

Life Cycles

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars identify and explain the parts of a flower and their role in the life cycle of flowering plants. For this online plant biology lesson, students explore the processes of pollination, seed dispersal, and germination....
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Curated OER

Pollination Power

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students go out into the garden and observe pollinating animals through hand lenses. In this pollination lesson plan, students also discuss how animals carry seeds to create new plants elsewhere.
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Curated OER

Graphing the Population Explosion of Weeds

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners are introduced to the seed cycle and draw the specific steps. In groups, they identify the human barriers to the spreading of weeds. After calculating the rate of spreading of the Yellowstar Thistle, they create graphs to see a...
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Oklahoma State University

Hairy Heredity

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Young scholars learn that heredity comes down to the flip of a coin with this cross-curricular math and science lesson. Using smiley faces as a model, young scholars toss coins to determine which dominant or recessive traits will be...
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Curated OER

Mutualism and Co-evolution A study of Flowering Plants and their Pollinators: Biology, Plants

For Teachers All
These lessons use a variety of methods and approaches to teach flowering plant biology which includes seed germination; plant growth and food production through photosynthesis; plant transpiration and respiration; sexual reproduction...
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Curated OER

Growing Pains

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students compare common food items with the parts of a plant. They grow their own plants to assess the difficulties in assisting a plant's growth and reproduction.
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Curated OER

Plants And Pollination

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers describe sexual reproduction in plants, including the process of pollination, how insects assist in pollination, and how pollination differs from fertilization. They also explore the importance of honey bees to Arizona...
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Curated OER

Pollen & Pollination

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify the different ways things are pollinated and how to manage pollen.  In this pollination lesson plan students complete an experiment on how moths pollinate flowers.
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Curated OER

Life Cycles

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the parts of a flower and pollination of flowers. In this plants instructional activity, students use an interactive whiteboard to label the parts of a plant and the functions of each part. Students complete a worksheet...
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Curated OER

Window Gardens

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use a plastic sandwich bag containing a damp paper towel taped to a window as a model system to observe the germination and early growth of radish seeds. They are challenged to pose a question about seed germination and growth...
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Curated OER

Lesson 3: Life Cycle of Brassica Plants

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the life cycle of brassica plants. In this science lesson, students observe each stage in the life cycle of their plant. Students record their observations and graph the data. Students
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Curated OER

Pollination

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the pollination process. In this plant biology instructional activity, 4th graders dissect a flower to identify the parts of a flower and watch a video to see seed dispersal. Students write about the pollination...
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Curated OER

Bats, Bees, Birds, and Blossoms

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Youngsters use a paper bee to pollinate two paper flowers. They use hole-punch dots as pollen. Older learners dissect flowers and name the structures involved in pollination. The handouts mentioned in the lesson plan are not included, so...
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Curated OER

Fantastic Flower

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Here is a clever lesson on pollination of flowers for you. In it, learners study the anatomy of a flower, and play a game in which they simulate the process of pollination. This fine plan brings in elements of art, physical education,...