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Flower Power

For Teachers K - 1st
An engaging, multi-session art and science lesson plan awaits your class. Within this lesson plan, you'll find everything you need to implement the plan. They go on a nature walk around their school, and must identify many living and...
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Sponge Painting Flowers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Explore the shapes and colors of spring with a flower themed painting project. Included here are a list of materials and the instructions needed to execute an art lesson on sponge painting flowers. Tip: Use in conjunction with a flower...
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Flora and Fauna as Figures of Speech

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
What a lovely way to incorporate artwork into your language arts lesson. View artwork in illustrated manuscript pages, depicting insects, animals, plants, flowers, and ornate writing in the Getty Museum. Practice using figurative...
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Let's Learn About Plants!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students discover different plants and plant parts by observing their campus.  In this plant life activity, students take a guided walk around their school with a magnifying glass examining everyday plants as well as photographing...
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Water Plants

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students examine the plants and animals that make their home in wetlands. While observing, they make sketches of the ones they see with a pencil. To end the lesson, they use watercolors to paint their flowers and animals at the local...
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Flower Powder

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students collect and observe pollen. In this plant reproduction biology lesson, students use pollen boards to collect pollen from flowers, then match it with the correct paper flowers. Students move artificial bees from flower to flower...
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Pocket Full of Posies: Ceramics

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
After studying the plant or flower life cycle, have the class create a basket of flowers out of clay. They hone their ceramics skills while they push, pull, then paint clay to look like flowers they've seen in nature. There are several...
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The Seeds We Need

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners apply word analysis skills to recognize new words, identify genres of fiction and nonfiction, and identify important themes and topics. They explore differences in plants, flowers, and vegetables. A book bag full of activities...
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A Planting We Will Go

For Teachers K - 2nd
Even the youngest kids can make scientific comparisons using collected data. They read The Tiny Seed, then discuss the essential nutrients and elements needed for a seed to grow into a blooming plant. They plant seeds and track their...
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Bigger Flowers

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discuss flowers and their parts, examine works by Georgia O'Keeffe, and draw, color, or paint large flowers.
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Make Your Own Flower Garden

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Get into art with a little lesson on flower parts. The class reviews basic information regarding flowers and then they use a paper mosaic technique to create visual representations of the lovely plants.
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Flowers and Pollination

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore the environment by researching plant reproduction. In this pollination instructional activity, students define botany related vocabulary terms such as disc flower, petal and fertilization. Students dissect a flower with...
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Plants 'n' Bugs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders experiment to find if pollinators have color preferences.  For this plant and bug lesson, 2nd graders gather information about how flowers pollinate. Students participate in a pollination experiment using...
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Orchid in Blind Contour Format

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create blind contour drawings. They compare methods of drawing including blind contour and contour approaches. Students follow a blind contour method to produce a drawing of a flower and then complete the piece with a watercolor...
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Ceramic Tile Wall Murals

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th Standards
Science, social studies, language arts, and art classes work together with administrators to produce a permanent, ceramic tile wall mural to install at their school. 
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Dyed Flower Garden

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create a dyed flower garden. In this art lesson, students read the book Tiny Seed and cut flowers out of tissue paper to create a paper flower garden.
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Dry Forest: Flowers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore botany by examining diagrams. In this plant reproduction lesson, students define a list of plant vocabulary terms and identify plant anatomy from a diagram. Students complete several plant activity worksheets and study...
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Floor Sculptures

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore visual arts by completing a recycling activity. In this botany science lesson plan, students examine the natural layout of plants in a garden environment. Students utilize wire, wood and other arts and craft materials to...
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Biology: Plants - The Fiber of Life

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students, in groups, examine and list the varieties of plants and how they relate to man and the environment. They create plant books complete with leaf samples with sketches and information, grow beans in plastic baggies, and role-play...
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Do Medicines Grow on Trees and Plants?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Young scholars study the importance of preserving rainforest. They investigate the uses of rainforest plants for medicinal uses by participating in rainforest immersion activities.
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Bigger Flowers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils observe and compare real flowers and artists' paintings of flowers. They discuss a flower and its parts. Students discuss the color (color wheel) and are introduced to new vocabulary. They draw, color, or paint a large flower...
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Plantable Pulp Cards

For Teachers K - 8th
What a great way to give a gift that keeps on giving! These homemade plantable cards are not only beautiful, but can be planted into the ground to sprout in the right season. Incorporate this project in a science unit, or for a Mother's...
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A Pressing Project

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners create a collection of pressed plants. In this plant lesson, students use newspaper, plywood, and a rubberband to press plants they previously collected.
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Plant Science Activities

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students complete several plant life activities. In this botany lesson, students practice painting images that resemble plants they are familiar with as well as planting seeds outside of class. Students participate in a dramatic...