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4-H Horticulture/Garden Activity Page- Beginning
In this 4-H garden project worksheet set, student study the parts of seeds and plants. They make a mini-greenhouse. They complete a career scavenger hunt, tools word search, and experiment to learn more about the effect of water on seed...
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Showing Nature's Way-Plant Development and the Plant Parts We Eat
Students explore plant life. For this science lesson plan, students demonstrate and record the stages of plant growth and categorize food plants by identifying the edible part.
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Homonyms - Quiz 1
Learners take a quiz on homonyms. For this homonyms lesson plan, students take a multiply choice quiz on words that sound alike but that are spelled and mean different things.
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Peanut Anatomy
Students explore the peanut plant. In this peanut activity, students discuss the needs and parts of regular plants. They research peanut plants to see why they are unique.
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The Great Plant Escape-Plant Parts
In this plant parts worksheet, students use provided links to compete questions about plant and their parts. Suggestions and links for additional resources are given.
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Basics About Beef Crossword
In this health learning exercise, learners complete an 85 clue crossword puzzle about beef. Questions cover names for various cuts, cooking words, and filler words such as "abbreviation for etcetera."
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Is Halloween Harmful?
For this is Halloween worksheet, students, with a partner, examine, research, discuss and complete a variety of activities associated with Halloween.
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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, students examine a diagram of a Brassica plant and identify its anatomy before planting their own seeds and viewing the changes over...
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Lesson 3: Life Cycle of Brassica Plants
Students investigate the life cycle of brassica plants. For 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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Most Troublesome Exotic Invasive Plant Species Web Quest
Students participate in a Web Quest activity in which they identify common exotic invasive plant species of the Southern Appalachian Region. After identifying the top 10 exotic invasive species, they choose one to research in depth.
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Science Excursion: Cover Mapping Land
Students study remotely sensed images and topographic maps to classify land cover types in their watershed area. They take samples in the watershed area to interpret the images.
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Soil Factors
Eighth graders study the nine soil factors to use in field study and to complete an exam. They learn the components and characteristics of soil.
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"Did You Eat That!"
First graders investigate why plants are an important part of our everyday lives, providing us with food, clothing, shelter, etc. In this lesson students participate in a series of hands-on, online, and multimedia activities to examine...
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Why Is An Apple Like A Suitcase?
Students examine a variety of fruit to discover that each has seeds. Through experimentation, they discover the role that fruit and seeds play in a plant's life cycle.
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Minnesota-China Connections: Chinese Flavors
Students discuss the foods which are typical of a Chinese diet. They find recipes and observe and sample various Chinese foods. They record their opinions about what they taste and experience in a journal entry.
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Grizzly Habitat
Students find areas on playground where they would live if they were a grizzly bear, share their reasons for their choice, talk about habitat areas, and choose their sites again, based upon new information.
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PICKING PEANUTS
Learners create sentences, using words printed on pictures of peanuts. They are explained that the peanut is not really a nut, but a legume, related to beans and peas. Students are also told that the first peanuts grew in Brazil. They...
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POWERFUL POTATO
Students will observe the growth process of a potato plant.Plant a potato in a large clay pot or gallon bucket. You may purchase seed potatoes
from a seed outlet in early spring or use a potato from home that has started to sprout. Make...
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ESL: Homonyms Quiz #21
In this homonym quiz learning exercise, learners complete a total of 20 multiple choice questions, choosing the correct homonym to fill in blanks in sentences.
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Plant Word Search
In this plants worksheet, students complete a word search, finding a set of 14 words related to plants. Word search appears in the shape of a flower.
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We are where and what we eat
Students explore concepts of plants they eat, where and how they grow and are introduced to genetic diversity. They examine seed characteristics, look at their different sizes, shapes and germination time. They also set up seeds to...
Precision Nutrition
Encyclopedia of Food: Celery Root
Identify a celery root, know its nutritional values, and try making celery root dip all featured in this entry.
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Ministerio De Educacion: El Reino Vegetal
In this lesson you will learn to understand better the different plants in your environment, its characteristics and its presence in our daily lives. Learn how important the plants are for the survival of all ecosystems in the world and...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Hausa
The Hausa constitute the largest ethnic group in West Africa. The term "Hausa" actually refers to the language and, by extension, to its native speakers, of whom there are about 25 million. Agriculture is the main economic activity....