Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Classify the Trees/leaves

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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.
eBook
Estrella Mountain Community College

Online Biology Book: Biological Diversity: Seed Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth reference explaining the role of seed plants in biological diversity. Photographs and labeled diagrams help learners with understanding.
Website
Estrella Mountain Community College

Online Biology Book: Biodiversity: Nonvascular & Nonseed Vascular Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographs, informative tables, and illustrated diagrams help explain the diversity of the plant kingdom in this college-level textbook.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Plant Classification

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Compares nonvascular and vascular plants.
Lesson Plan
Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Making Community Measurements: Biotic Factors [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
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.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Kind of Plant Is It?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson 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.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Circles of Life

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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 students will learn the life cycle of mosses, ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms. The...
Lesson Plan
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Lesson: Plant Investigations

For Teachers 4th
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...
Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Plant Kingdom Study Guide

For Students 4th - 9th
Explore the diversity and taxonomy of the plant kingdom.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: First Grade Collecting Leaves With the Book Leaf Man

For Teachers K - 1st
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.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Plant Classification

For Teachers 5th - 9th
[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.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Plant Classification

For Students 6th - 8th
[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...
Handout
The Franklin Institute

The Franklin Institute: Living Things Families

For Students 9th - 10th
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.