Captain Planet Foundation
Square Foot Fall Garden
First graders learn the basic needs of plants and identify geometric shapes while planting a fall garden. Combining math and science in one lesson plan, the resource guides kids through starting their class garden as they...
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Succession in the Classroom
Middle schoolers investigate their environment by growing plants in class. In this botany lesson, students discuss the lifespan of plants and animals and how they must be cared for continuously over time. Middle schoolers...
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How to Grow a Sunflower Plant
Students explore botany by conducting a sunflower growth experiment. For this plant life lesson, students identify the anatomy of a sunflower plant and the essential nutrients it requires to grow. Students utilize compost, soil, garden...
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How a Seed Grows and Who Grows It
First graders explore biology by viewing PowerPoint presentations in class. For this plant life lesson, 1st graders identify the life cycle of a plant and how to properly plant a seed outside. Students view a movie about plant life and...
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Gardening in Containers
Students plant a garden. In this gardening instructional activity, students use containers to plant a garden. This instructional activity provides a good source of information for teachers who wish to begin their class's own container...
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Space Facts
Students read space facts and click on the links to research more about space objects. In this space lesson plan, students read about comets, planets, the moon, and more.
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
Learners create a design for a school garden. In this garden design instructional activity, students analyze what plants grow best in their school's climate and work in teams to design a garden. Learners measure the existing space,...
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Pumpkin, Pumpkin
First graders understand that pumpkins grow slowly over several months. In this pumpkin lesson, 1st graders listen to the book Pumpkin, Pumpkin and recall the sequence of the pumpkin life cycle. Students create pumpkin artwork showing...
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Space Salad
Students identify and analyze some of the similarities between Earth and Mars. Students identify why scientists believe that living things such as plants can live on Mars. Students evaluate each of the Growing Space modules identify in...
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Garden Grid
Basically, your class reads about different garden plants from an included handout and seed packets that you provide, and then uses a grid to plan out where to place the plants. They can practice counting with the seeds, grouping,...
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Plant an Ozone Monitoring Garden
Students create a garden. In this ozone lesson, students discuss ozone injury, identify plants sensitive to ozone, and then plant their own ozone garden.
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Sustainable Livestock
Students investigate healthy eating habits by researching livestock. In this food sustainability lesson, students research the negative impact factory farming has on our environment due to pollution. Students define agricultural...
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Gardening for Beauty, Food, and Enjoyment
First graders create their own garden. In this plant instructional activity, 1st graders discover the essential elements for a plant to grow. They planted their own garden and read the amount of space needed and the sunlight preferred...
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Ecotourism in National Parks and Wilderness
Middle schoolers research a wilderness or natural area and develop a plan for ecotourism.
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Imagine a Kelp Forest
Students write a story based on their research of the kelp forest. For this ecosystem lesson, students view a video and research the kelp forest ecosystem. They write a short story imagining the discovery of a new species in the kelp...
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Wonderfully Wild Unit the four L's of Wildlife
Young scholars appreciate the natural environment. In this "four L's" lesson, students observe, reflect and appreciate unique ecosystems and how they help sustain life. Young scholars create posters with the four L's.
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Greenhouse Effect: Pop Bottle Experiment
Students explore global warming by conducting a weather experiment. In this greenhouse gas lesson, students define the greenhouse effect and the impact on our ozone layer. Students utilize a soda pop bottle, floodlight bulb, thermometers...
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Factors Affecting Plant Growth
Young scholars determine the physical and chemical factors that affect plant growth. In this biology lesson, students explain the role of hormones in plants. They investigate how competition with other plants affect their growth.
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Ready, Set, Grow
Create a class butterfly garden, then write journal entries with illustrations of the garden.
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Planning A School Garden
Students discover how to plan a vegetable garden. Each student take responsibility for growing one vegetable from seed, to transplanting the seedling into the soil, and providing the plant with light, moisture, temperature and healthy soil.
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All The Seasons
Students explore winter, spring, summer, and fall. For this science and technology lesson plan, students use "Kid Pix" to draw pictures that represent the four seasons.
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WALK, DON'T RUN
1. Bring two quarts of moist soil, a cake pan, a sprinkling can of water and a quart of grass clippings to class.
2. Share background material, and introduce the word "erosion."
3. Prepare a small model hill by mounding the soil in the...
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Geography Made Fun with Technology
Students incorporate knowledge box into their classroom activities. In this technology integration lesson, students fill out a graphic organizer using Glossopedia to analyze a new subject.
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Science: A Tree for All Seasons
Students observe trees in their schoolyard and record the seasonal changes by drawing pictures. For this ongoing lesson, they discover the names of the seasons and place green paper leaves on a paper tree in the classroom, which are also...