Bigger Flowers

From a tiny seed needing water and warmth to the bud that will blossom into a flower, elementary pupils illustrate the stages of the sunflower life cycle through dance and drawing.

Students plant a seed and observe its growth over a period of time.  In this plant lesson plan, students plant soybean seeds.  Students check daily for germination and record growth in their journal.  Students care for the plants and...

Science, social studies, language arts, and art classes work together with administrators to produce a permanent, ceramic tile wall mural to install at their school. 

Learners read The Apple Pie Tree and discuss the story and talk about what was living in the tree.  In this life comprehension instructional activity, students write the main idea of the book in a few sentences. 

I bet the kids in your class will love to eat their vegetables after an engaging lesson about edible plants. They read information about vegetables and edible plants, sort vocabulary words, identify plant parts, measure and graph the...

Here is a great art project to use at the onset of spring. Little ones use paper towels, tempera paint, and glue to create free-form flowers. Tip: Use this idea to make the front of a Mother's Day card.

Learners observe and compare real flowers and artists' paintings of flowers. They discuss a flower and its parts. Students discuss the color (color wheel) and are introduced to new vocabulary. They draw, color, or paint a large flower...

Students create a pumpkin art project that outlines the life cycle of a pumpkin in order to learn the growth process of this particular vegetable. In this pumpkin art lesson, students first review the life cycle of a pumpkin as a class,...

In this exploring the processes from seed to reproduction of a plant online interactive activity, students read a passage explaining the plant life cycle and answer multiple choice questions about what they read. Students choose 8 answers.

Students view the four stages in the growth of a butterfly. They are told that once a caterpillar hatches, its skin can't grow fast enough to make room for all its growth. Students are asked if they have seen a caterpillar? They are...