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Clearly Classified
Learners investigate plants and insects. In this science classification lesson plan, high schoolers create separate categories for insects and plants by characteristics. Learners discover scientific names of insects.
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Pollination Power
Learners 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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Nature's Life Cycle
Become a member of the Pollution Patrol and stand up to litter! After discussing the life cycle of seeds and discussing how plants figure into the food chain, young conservationists engage in several activities involving podcasts,...
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Pollination Parties
Students discuss the pollination of bees and butterflies. In this pollination lesson,students complete a worksheet answering questions about an imaginary bee pollination company. Students understand the relationship...
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MONET'S GARDEN BY THE SEA
Middle schoolers establish their own design utilizing a similar composition to Monet's, integrate their drawing skills in creating a "garden by the sea."
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Butterfly Life Cycle
Second graders explore biology. In this life cycle lesson plan, 2nd graders act out the stages a caterpillar goes through to become a butterfly. They spend days prior to this lesson plan observing caterpillars they have collected and...
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Insects
Second graders brainstorm and identify several types of common insects. They play bug bingo, building bugs and an insect tree, observing real insects in the classroom and examining some of the things insects make.
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Plant Structure and Growth
This plant structure and function PowerPoint addresses the main organs and the factors that affect its development as well as going into detail about the specializations at a cellular level. The cell functions and system...
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Plant Diversity
In this nonfiction comprehension worksheet, students read the selection on plant diversity and answer 10 questions that include true/false, short answer, multiple choice, and fill in the blank.
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Vegetative Propagation Project
Students, in this project, successfully start new plants by various means of vegetative propagation.
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Co-evolution of Plants and Pollinators
High schoolers, while studying the rolls of pollinators and plants, explore co-evolution of mutualistic relationships.
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Life Cycle of Brassica Plants: Planting Seeds
Students explore botany by participating in a calendar class activity. In this plant observation lesson plan, students examine a diagram of a Brassica plant and identify its anatomy before planting their own seeds and viewing the changes...
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Lesson 3: Life Cycle of Brassica Plants
Learners investigate the life cycle of brassica plants. In this science lesson, students observe each stage in the life cycle of their plant. Learners record their observations and graph the data. Students
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COMMON KINDS OF INSECTS
Students will recognize and name three common insects.1. Share background information with students. 2. Provide students with the "bug body" puzzle pages, and have them cut the puzzles out.1. Share background information with students....
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Predators and Prey
Students explain how the food chain works. They contrast predators with prey and describe their function in nature. Students discuss how the food chain aids in keeping nature balanced. In small groups, they play a game that simulates the...
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Flawed Democracies, Human Rights
Students create drawing that tell a story about a young girl's life in an internment camp. In this internment camp lesson plan, students hear stories and analyze photographs of internment camps and then create their own drawings.
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Sponges and Cnidarian Crossword Puzzle
In this marine science worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle with 32 questions on sponges and cnidarian. They identify the different characteristics of sponges and cnidarian.
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Seed Diversity
Students explore agriculture by researching different seeds. In this seed identification activity, students collaborate in small groups to analyze a package of different seeds. Students utilize a magnifying glass to examine each seed...
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Plants
In this science learning exercise, students investigate plants by first reading a paragraph of information. Students then choose a plant, illustrate and write about it.
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Explorit's Garden Quiz: How Does Your Garden Grow?
In this plants learning exercise, students complete a 6 question multiple choice quiz about gardening, plants and agriculture. This is an online interactive learning exercise.
Biology Pages
Kimball's Biology Pages: Sexual Reproduction in Angiosperms (Flowering Plants)
This site, from retired Harvard professor John W. Kimball, provides a detailed but understandable explanation of sexual reproduction in flowering plants. Includes informative, well labelled illustrations.
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech: Flower and Tree Reproduction
This is the reproduction chapter from an online text, courtesy of the Forest Biology Department of Virginia Tech. Learn about trees, their flowers, and other details of their reproductive cycle.
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Zephyrus: Flower Reproduction
A good graphic overview of flowering plant reproduction and the specific parts of the plant responsible for that.
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Wake Forest University: Angiosperms Reproduction/life Cycle
This informative resource describes the advances that angiosperms possess over conifers. It also looks at the parts of a flower, how fruit develops and the life cycle of an angiosperm.