Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Dandelion Days
Read about the life cycle of dandelions from their first appearance in the spring. Includes audio narration in 16 additional languages with text in English.
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.
Curated Video
How Do Plants Grow? | Knowsy Nina Wants to Know
Knowsy Nina discovers what food plants need in order to grow in this episode! [5:00]
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade K: From Seed to Plant
Students gather information from a variety of texts- literary and informational- to describe the connection between people, events, ideas, and pieces of information. Students are introduced to life cycles by learning about how a plant...
Other
My Science Box: Raising Plants
The objective of this lesson is to study the life cycle and structure of plants. Students learn about the concept of classifying objects as either living or non-living by growing plants from seeds, fertilizing them, collecting seed, then...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Tree Mendous Plots [Pdf]
To teach students how to use collect and use real-life data, use this activity to create, populate and analyze graphs to interpret data related to the growth of plants from seeds. The activity then asks students to create a story about...