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MONET'S GARDEN BY THE SEA
Learners 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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COMMON KINDS OF INSECTS
Young scholars will recognize and name three common insects.1. Share background information with students. 2. Provide young scholars with the "bug body" puzzle pages, and have them cut the puzzles out.1. Share background information with...
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Plants And Pollination
Learners 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 agriculture.
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Clearly Classified
Young scholars review the classification system for living organisms and apply it the classification of insects and flowers in the still life by Ambrosius Bosschaert. They create a chart classifying the animals and plants in the painting...
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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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Butterfly Life Cycle
Second graders explore biology. In this life cycle lesson, 2nd graders act out the stages a caterpillar goes through to become a butterfly. They spend days prior to this lesson observing caterpillars they have collected and developing...
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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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Pollen & Pollination
Students identify the different ways things are pollinated and how to manage pollen. For this pollination lesson students complete an experiment on how moths pollinate flowers.
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Seed Diversity
Young scholars explore agriculture by researching different seeds. For this seed identification lesson, students collaborate in small groups to analyze a package of different seeds. Young scholars utilize a magnifying glass to examine...
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Clearly Classified
Learners investigate plants and insects. In this science classification lesson, students create separate categories for insects and plants by characteristics. Learners discover scientific names of insects.
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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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Flawed Democracies, Human Rights
Pupils 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 instructional activity, 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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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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Explorit's Garden Quiz: How Does Your Garden Grow?
For this plants worksheet, students complete a 6 question multiple choice quiz about gardening, plants and agriculture. This is an online interactive worksheet.
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Plants
In this science worksheet, students investigate plants by first reading a paragraph of information. Students then choose a plant, illustrate and write about it.
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Pollination Power
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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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.
Science & Plants for Schools
Science & Plants for Schools: Parts of a Flower
A detailed look at the parts of a plant and how plants reproduce.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: The Great Plant Escape Parts of a Seed
Help Detective Le Plant discover how a seed grows into a plant. Students will learn to describe a seed's structure and what's needed for seed growth.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Investigating the Structure of the Flower
This lesson plan has learners make a model of a flower's structure using clay, toothpicks, and construction paper.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Plantenstein Is the Suspect!
Detective Le Plant has discovered that one plant can produce many other plants. He needs you to help him find out how this happens. Follow along and learn about the parts of flowers and reproduction. Along the way, you will be quizzed!
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Biology of Plants: Pollination
Learn the parts of a flower and how a plant gets pollinated. Includes video, songs, diagrams, and lesson plans.