Comparing Germination

What does a seed need to grow into a plant? What is inside a seed? In a fun and engaging instructional activity, young scientists learn all about what it takes for a seed to become a plant as they listen to a story, examine the inside of...

Children gain first-hand experience with Native American agriculture while investigating the life cycle of plants with this engaging experiment. Focusing on what the natives called the Three Sisters - corn, beans, and squash - young...

Students germinate a Mung Bean seed. In this seed lesson students conduct an experiment germinating a Mung Bean. They apply three different treatments to the seeds: dry, moist, and underwater incubation.

Take young naturalists on an exploration of the world's tropical rainforests with this extensive collection of lessons and activities. Whether its creating leaf and flower prints or investigating the absorption spectrum of chlorophyl,...

Students experiment with germinating seeds.  In this germination instructional activity, students use bean and pea seeds in a plastic bag.  Students use a seed growth chart to record their observations of their experiments.  Students...

What does it mean to grow? To germinate? For the plan detailed here, class members investigate the growth process of an oak tree while focusing on the beginning stages of planting and germination. They plant seeds and record observations...

Germination is an amazing process that results in amazing things. The book The Tiny Seed is the inspiration for a set of activities that will help build early literacy, observation, language, and writing skills. The class observes how...

After a discussion of the factors that affect seed germination, class groups harvest and preserve seeds from the school garden.

Students observe plant growth and the parts of a plant. In this plants biology lesson plan, students identify and describe the job of plant parts after listening to the story The Carrot Seed by Ruth Kraus. Students  plant seeds and...

Students examine how seeds germinate in a culture.  In this germination lesson students germinate seeds in gelatin and observe the growth of the plant.