eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Dandelion Days

For Students K - 1st
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.
Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: The Great Plant Escape Parts of a Seed

For Students 2nd - 6th
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.
Interactive
Curated Video

How Do Plants Grow? | Knowsy Nina Wants to Know

For Students 2nd - 4th
Knowsy Nina discovers what food plants need in order to grow in this episode! [5:00]
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade K: From Seed to Plant

For Teachers K Standards
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...
Activity
Other

My Science Box: Raising Plants

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Tree Mendous Plots [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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...