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Plant Reproduction

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students investigate seeds and plant life by creating a germination chamber.  In this botany instructional activity, students investigate the relationship between flowers and the fruit they produce while examining the structure of the...
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Curated OER

How Does Your Plant Grow?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students measure and record their height in centimeters on a graph. By integrating math and science, students collect data and apply graphing skills to the experiences they are having growing plants. Finally, students identify how to...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Plant Responses

For Students 4th - 8th
In this plant response instructional activity, students will explore the different responses plants have to different stimuli, including light and gravity. Students will complete 7 multiple choice questions and 3 fill in the blank...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Organization and Function of Plants

For Students 6th - 9th
In this plant worksheet, students investigate the structures and functions of plants. They also study seed germination through the use of a wall chart.
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Organizer
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How Do Plants Reproduce?

For Students 7th - 12th
In this plant reproduction worksheet, students will complete a Venn diagram by comparing and contrasting gymnosperms and angiosperms.
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Designing a Germination Experiment

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students explore botany by participating in a seed experiment. In this plant nutrition lesson plan, students define several science experiment vocabulary terms like observation, treatment, and replicate. Students utilize soaked seeds in...
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The Importance of Tropisms

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners investigate plant tropisms using the scientific method. In this life science instructional activity, students learn about tropisms and test the response of corn seedlings to gravity. Response questions, extensions, and an...
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Curated OER

Flower Power

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore parts of the flower. In this plant biology lesson, students dissect flowers and identify how the seeds are formed. Students take a nature walk to pick flowers for future dissections.
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Native American Three Sisters Gardens

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students investigate companion planting. In this  communtiy gardening instructional activity students explore the tradition of the Native American Three Sisters gardening approach. Students act as botanists, anthropologists, folklorists,...
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Worksheet
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Flowers and Flowering

For Students 5th - 10th
In this flower instructional activity, students will complete 5 true or false statements about the reproductive process of flowering plants. Then students will label 7 parts of a flower on a diagram.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Genetics Practice 1: Basic Mendelian Genetics

For Students 7th - 12th
Six genetics problems are to be solved by junior geneticists. Empty Punnett squares are provided for them to plant the parents' alleles and determine the genotype, phenotype, and frequency of offspring. All of the problems involve actual...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

4-H Horticulture/Garden Activity Page

For Students 7th - 10th
As part of an exploration of plants, learners engage in projects to design greenhouses, grow vegetables, and other endeavors. This 20 question activity packet could be used as a classroom mini-lesson or as the start to a long-term project.
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Curated OER

Survival of the Fittest

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore plant needs and growth. In this plant science lesson plan, students use a cereal box to complete a plant growth graph activity.
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Interactive
Scholastic

Study Jams! Mosses and Ferns

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
Mosses and ferns are some of the world's oldest types of plants. Here is a quality 10-slide presentation set to gentle background music for beginning botanists to view and enjoy. Accompanying captions explain that these are both...
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Perkins School for the Blind

The Germinator

For Teachers 4th - 8th
How does a plant grow from a seed? Observe the process with a clever idea from the PBS television show ZOOM. Watch the video, then have your young botanists create their own germinators. The lesson described here is for visually impaired...
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Beyond Benign

SLS Toxicology Test

For Students 6th - 8th
Ingredients in your shampoo are toxic enough to kill plants. The 16th installment of the series of 24 tests the toxicity level of various concentrations of SLS, a chemical found in nearly all shampoo. Learners prepare percent solutions...
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Garden Earth Naturalist Club

Parts of a Flower! Flower Dissection

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Sometimes the best way to learn about plants is to see the different parts of a plant yourself. Groups of learners dissect flowers to answer questions about what they observe and what they wonder about their flower.
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Herb is the Word

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students conduct an experiment to determine how different soils affect plant growth over a six-week period. After determining the physical properties of different types of soil, students plant various types of seeds into the soil...
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Fruits and Vegetables

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the differences between plants with seeds and seedless.  For this fruits and vegetables lesson students examine some vegetables and nuts that are really fruits.
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Wandering Wild-oats

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students observe wild-oat seeds. In this biology lesson, students watch how wild-oat seeds react to moisture and draw conclusions and make predictions.
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MANAGING THE SCHOOL FOREST

For Teachers K - 8th
Students study how to plant a seedling, how to mulch the trees into the nursery bed, transplant seedlings to another site or school, and determine why we need to water and mulch trees.
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Lesson Plan
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Sunflowers (Grades 3-8)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students examine sunflowers and discuss the importance of sunflower cooking oil and seeds. They view pictures, read books, sing sunflower songs, and grow flowers from sunflower seeds.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Why Are Bees Important?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify and analyze pollination and how bees play an important part in the life cycle of flowering plants. They also identify the process of plant pollination and how bees play an important part in the life cycle of flowering...
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Fertilizers

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students examine the nutrient makeup in fertilizers.  In this plant nutrient instructional activity students see the effects of common fertilizers on plants.

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