Better Lesson
Better Lesson: From Seed to Plant
Students will use the illustrations and details in the text to describe how plants grow. This lesson uses a complex text to allow students to analyze the pictures in From Seed to Plant and From Seed to Pumpkin. Included are videos and...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: From Seeds to Plants
In this primary unit on plants, students use observational skills to compare and discuss the changes in plants. They identify plant parts, where seeds come from, and how they grow.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Seeds to Plants: How to Grow a Plant
An experiment where first-graders plant seeds and monitor their growth. Prior to planting, they decide on an inquiry question, and how they will find out the answer through the experiment.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Many Seeds Do Different Types of Fruit Produce?
Do you like your strawberry jelly with or without the seeds? Are you glad to have a seed-free watermelon, or do you enjoy spitting the seeds into the garden? You might not like to find seeds in your fruit, but fruit is nature's way of...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Gone With the Wind: An Experiment on Seed and Fruit Dispersal
If you have ever made a wish and blown the fluff of a dandelion, you have witnessed how some plants are adapted to spreading their seeds using the wind. The tiny, furry parachute allows the seeds to be picked up by the wind and to be...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade K: From Seed to Plant
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...
Other
Growing Carnivorous Plants
Do I need a terrarium? How do I stimulate seeds to germinate? Where can I buy a carnivorous plant? These questions and more are answered in this informative site.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Promise of a Seed
In this lesson, students will plant seeds, record the changes, and connect the relationship of seeds to plants. This lesson should be taught at the beginning of plant unit.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in...
University of Florida
Florida Museum of Natural History: Plant Life
This teacher's guide focuses on the fascinating world of plants. Through books and other print materials, and exploration of actual plants, children will identify plants as living things, examine the parts of plants, experiment with what...
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Tundra Plants
Visitors of this site will discover what plant life is found in the tundra and how they are able to survive the adverse weather conditions. Click on the yellow flower to start.
Globio
Glossopedia: Plants
Plants are one of the two major Kingdoms of living creatures on the Earth. They are the only beings which produce their own food. Additionally, plants are necessary for animals to live. Plant anatomy, life cycle, reproduction and the...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Seed Plants
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the parts of a seed and the classification and evolution of seed plants.
Starfall
Starfall: All About Seeds
This lesson focuses on seeds and the plants they grow into. It includes kinds and sizes of seeds, pollination of plants, plant parts, how seeds travel, and what plants need to grow.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Seeds, Soil, and Surprises
This site has excellent resources for teaching students about plants. It has a guide to scientific investigation and a glossary of plant terms. There are three lessons that each include a slideshow on the parts of a plant, the needs of...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: The Great Plant Escape Parts of a Seed
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.
Science & Plants for Schools
Science & Plants for Schools: Teaching Resources
A collection of teaching resources to help learners explore plants! Resources investigate anatomy of plants, reproduction and life cycles, fruits, seeds, classification, photosynthesis, factors that affect plant growth, and respiration....
Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act: 22: Retelling the Tiny Seed
This instructional activity engages students in story retelling to Eric Carle's book, The Tiny Seed. Students will participate in interactive storytelling as they write sentences and illustrate pictures about seed travel.
Indiana University
Indiana University: Plants in Motion
Plants grow and change on a time scale that is too slow for us to observe in real time. Time-lapse photography is a simple technique that allows us to see the movements of plants and clearly demonstrates that plants are living and...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Vikings: How Do Plants Grow?
Olaf the viking is learning about the life cycle of plants. Help him tend to his garden as he learns.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Experiment With Genetically Modified Seeds
Compare the growth of normal plants with plants that have been genetically modified to make them resistant to the chemical herbicide Roundup. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract,...
Ohio State University
Ohio State University: Development From Seed to Plant
A thorough discussion of the environmental cues that can trigger germination and of the changes in structure that result. Charts, graphs, and links are also provided.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Evolution of Seed Plants
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how plants with seeds evolved.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Seeds and Seed Dispersal
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Plants seem to grow wherever they can. How? Plants can't move on their own. So how does a plant start growing in a new area? Learn more about seeds and seed...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Vascular Seedless Plants
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Vascular seedless plants have vascular tissue but do not have seeds. Most of the large vascular seedless plants from ancient times are now extinct, but their smaller...