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Pond Water Plants and Animals [Pdf]
This resource depicts some pond water plants and animals one might happen to spot while peering through their microscope lense. This resource is in PDF form; requires Adobe Reader.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Animals and Plants Can Live in a City!
For this interactive lesson, students learn that animals need air, food, water, and shelter, while plants need air, sunlight, and water. Students watch videos and engage with drawing and sorting activities to reinforce their learning....
Read Works
Read Works: How Plants Get Water and Food
[Free Registration/Login Required] An information text about a plant's roots and why they are important. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Water Power O Logy Card
OLogy cards are like virtual baseball cards about all kinds of science topics. This card is about power generated in hydroelectric plants from water. See if you can answer a few questions about water power when you're done reading.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: Vascular Seed Plants: Self Check Quiz
Try these five multiple-choice questions about vascular plants. Each question has a clickable hint prompt as well as a self-checking feature.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Jason: Does Clear Water Mean Healthy Water?
JASON Aquatic Field Study: Explore how most aquatic animals and plants need clear water to survive by performing an experiment to measure the water clarity of a local aquatic site.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Water Safari
Students are challenged to search for and find plants and animals that live in a mangrove forest.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating the Water Cycle: Using Plants to Study Evaporation
In this science activity, students investigate the water cycle by testing the water evaporated from leaves (transpiration). They investigate concepts of evaporation and the movement of water through the different states of the water...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Nonvascular Plants
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Nonvascular seedless plants lack vascular tissue and they do not have true roots, stems, or leaves, but they can have stem-like and root-like structures. These...
Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Environment of Texas [Pdf]
An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this lesson, they learn about the four physical regions of Texas, the geology and soils, and...
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Role of Plants in Water Filtration [Pdf]
What role can plants play in the water filtering process? This PDF document features a class activity to help students understand the role of plants in filtering water.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: What Plants Need in Order to Survive and Grow: Water [Pdf]
A lesson plan unit where students work in small groups to conduct an experiment with two cacti to test whether plants need water.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Uptake of Carbon Dioxide From Water by Plants
Two simple experimental demonstrations show the role of plants in mitigating the acidification caused when carbon dioxide is dissolved in water.
Biology Pages
Kimball's Biology Pages: Transportation in Plants
A very good explanation of the processes of water transport in plants. Includes graphics that accompany this very detailed explanation.
Microscopy UK
Microscopy Uk: Water Movement Through a Plant
This thorough site describes the forces and processes involved in the movement of water through a plant.
Other
Botanical.com: Index of Poisionous Plants
This site from Botanical.com provides an index of poisonous plants with in-depth descriptions and symptoms.
Other
H2ous.org: H20 Use: Gardening Guide
Find inspiration for water-conserving gardens. Take a garden tour or look at the garden gallery for more ideas. Hot links are provided to favored plants and their detailed information.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Would You Drink That?
This activity focuses on getting students to think about bacteria, water quality and water treatment processes. Students develop and test their hypotheses about the "cleanliness" of three water samples prepared by the teacher. Then they...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Witnessing Evaporation
The engineers at Splash Engineering (the students) have been commissioned by Thirsty County to conduct a study of evaporation and transpiration in their region. During one week, students observe and measure (by weight) the ongoing...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Grow Your Own Algae!
Students discover how tiny microscopic plants can remove nutrients from polluted water. They also learn how to engineer a system to remove pollutants faster and faster by changing the environment for the algae.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Eekoworld
Interactive website from PBS Kids teaches students age 6-9 about a number of ecological topics and the role they play in protecting the environment. Topics include recycling, the environment, air and water, plants and animals, and the...
Other
Protect Your Waters: Non Native Species Impacts
This site offers a complete explanation of how invasive animals and plants impact many of the different things valued by Americans. The economic impact is enormous and estimated to be about $100 billion dollars per year.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Plant Adaptations
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] An overview of how plants have adapated to their environments.
Read Works
Read Works: Miss Johnson's Plant Experiment
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a teacher who does an experiment to teach her students that plants need sunlight. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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