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Let Us Grow Lettuce!
Students identify the stages of plant growth. In this plant lesson, students plant lettuce seed and take photos of the growth throughout a two week period.
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Plant a Plant in Anything!
Primary graders repurpose items brought from home to create containers for plants. After poking holes in their containers, kids add soil and plant seeds or transplant an item, and then observe and draw conclusions about which items...
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Cotton Seed Planting
Students using scientific inquiry will observe and record in daily journals their findings on cotton seeds. They measure, graph, and then communicate their discoveries about plants to each other.
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
Students identify what plants need to grow. In this plant biology lesson, students analyze the differences between an artificial plant and a live plant. Students plant seeds and discuss what plants need to grow. Students observe the...
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How do rice farmers make good use of the land they use for planting rice?
Second graders discuss how farmers grow rice. In this rice growing lesson, 2nd graders see the optimal condition for land in order to grow rice. They experiment with clay and garden soil to see which holds water better.
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Growing Plants
Students grow plants and track their growth over time. In this growing plants lesson, students plant seedlings and chart their growth in a data analysis activity.
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What does the U.S. rice farmer use to grow rice?
Students discuss how a farmer grows rice. In this rice lesson plan, students discover the different tools needed to grow rice and how rice is cut and cleaned. They draw a picture of a rice farm.
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Plant Systems
Second graders learn about plant systems and how plants grow and function. In this plant lesson plan, 2nd graders collect data based on roots, leaves, terrariums, plant uses, and locations of certain kinds of plants. They fill out...
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Sunflower Sundance
First graders study sunflower plants and identify its parts. They plant sunflower seeds and watch them grow and make sunflowers out of paper plates and colored paper. They watch videos and visit websites about sunflowers.
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A Day on the Farm
First graders, with a collection of various art supplies, plant a seed to observe it growing and record specific data on a data record sheet. They create a collage from various magazines of ten different foods farm animals eat and make a...
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Beanie Baby
Learners investigate the growing of beans by using a creative experiment. They plant and grow beans in a bag before transplanting them. The bean bag is checked several times a day and the data is recorded. The data is analyzed and...
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Seed to Plant
Learners understand the stages of a plants life. In this stages of plant development lesson, students read about bean plants and grow their own. Learners record growth and photograph changes in their plants. Students label the parts of a...
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Introduction to Seed Germination
Students explore seed germination. In this life science instructional activity, students start seeds in Petri dishes, then observe which ones germinate and make predictions.
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Soil Composition
Students investigate how soil composition affects plant growth. In small groups, they plant various seeds in different soil mixtures, record plant and seed growth, and analyze the results.
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Plant Activities: Grow a Plant
Students plant seeds and watch their plants grow in the classroom while learning about the process.
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Which Way to Roots Grow?
Second graders explore roots and how they grow. They observe as seeds planted in various directions grow and record their observations. Students discuss the direction in which the roots are growing.
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Growing a Garden
Students research aspects of gardening including nutrition, costs, and soil preparation. They then write a report detailing the planning of the garden and compare costs to buying the items.
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Planting Rabbit King’s Carrot
Even pirates know not to steal stuff you can make yourself! Read The Pirate's Parrot Stole the King's Carrot to engage your class. Then, plant carrots with your class. If this isn't possible with your kiddos, consider cutting out paper...
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Eggshell People
Students observe grass growth. In this agricultural instructional activity, students use empty eggshells and fill them with soil and grass seed. Students record eggshell "hair growth" on a chart.
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Even Grass Won't Grow
Students analyze what occurs when grass will not grow. They interview maintenance staff at their school and research possibilities for grass to grow. They develop a research plan and conduct soil sample tests. They plant grass seed and...
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The Ogre Bully
Young scholars listen to the book, The Ogre Bully, and discuss the problems the farmer and his family had during the story. In this garden themed lesson, students examine different fruit and vegetables and plant them in soil...
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Crops 2: What Plants Need to Grow
Students explore the kinds of things that plants need to grow well.
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Growing Plants with Worm Castings
Young scholars test worm castings for content and use them to grow seeds. They hypothesize which castings best sustain seed growth. They observe growing plants to test their hypotheses. Later they graph their data.
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Where do Plants Get their Food?
In this where do plants get their food worksheet, students design an experiment that will disprove the idea that plants obtain their food from soil. Students will set up their experiment and design a data table that will record data over...