Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Classify the Trees/leaves
Students go outside to look for trees and gather leaves. Working cooperatively they will sort and try to classify the trees by the characteristics of their leaves.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Plant Classification
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Compares nonvascular and vascular plants.
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Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Making Community Measurements: Biotic Factors [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students explore plant communities and observe and classify different types of vegetation. Includes discussion questions, extension activities and web links, a vocabulary glossary, and handouts.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Kind of Plant Is It?
This lesson plan provides a fun way for students to learn to classify plants as vascular and nonvascular. Students will use drawing software to create pictures of vascular and nonvascular plants.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Circles of Life
This is an inquiry based cooperative learning unit that can be used in biology as a graduation exam review or in botany for a nine week project. The learners will learn the life cycle of mosses, ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms. The...
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Lesson: Plant Investigations
In groups, have students research and present plants that are on their plate. These plants can be a combination of all of their cultures or students can pick one culture to research and present on. Students will need to classify that...
Estrella Mountain Community College
Online Biology Book: Biological Diversity: Seed Plants
An in-depth reference explaining the role of seed plants in biological diversity. Photographs and labeled diagrams help learners with understanding.
Estrella Mountain Community College
Online Biology Book: Biodiversity: Nonvascular & Nonseed Vascular Plants
Photographs, informative tables, and illustrated diagrams help explain the diversity of the plant kingdom in this college-level textbook.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Plant Kingdom Study Guide
Explore the diversity and taxonomy of the plant kingdom.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: First Grade Collecting Leaves With the Book Leaf Man
In this environmental science activity, students go on a leaf walk and collect different types of leaves, and then brainstorm characteristics of their leaves then classify them.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Plant Classification
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews how plants are classified by showing pictures and examples of the different classifications. Students have a chance to demonstrate their understanding using Activote questions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Plant Classification
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Do all plants grow from seeds? No, there are actually a few plants that do not make seeds. Whether or not a plant makes seeds is one criteria used to classify...
The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute: Living Things Families
What do centipedes and crabs have in common? What's so special about a backbone? Check this site out from The Franklin Institute if you are interested in biology and classification.