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The Magic School Bus Goes to Seed

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students get a bugs-eye view of the flower world and find out how seeds are created, how they travel, and how they grow into plants.
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What Bees Eat

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study plant and animal interdependence by studying bees and pollination. In this interdependence lesson, students discuss flower parts and dissect it to show its reproductive parts. Students then use tissue and pipe cleaners to...
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Flowers to Dye For

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students observe biology by completing a plant experiment in class. For this botany lesson, students discuss the anatomy related to a plant and how roots and stems are necessary to its survival. Students utilize food coloring and examine...
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Floor Sculptures

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore visual arts by completing a recycling activity. In this botany science lesson, students examine the natural layout of plants in a garden environment. Students utilize wire, wood and other arts and craft materials to...
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Making Community Measurements: Which Plant Part?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students identify a plant in a given community and make a variety of measurements. They determine how a plant meets its basic needs. In addition to identifying plant parts, they observe seasonal change and compare plants within a community.
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Let's Learn About Plants!

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners discover different plants and plant parts by observing their campus.  For this plant life lesson, students take a guided walk around their school with a magnifying glass examining everyday plants as well as photographing them....
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Introduction To Floral Morphology

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners create a model of the four basic whorls of flowers using a water bottle, construction paper and Q-tips. They then examine fresh flower specimens to see how the basic structure can vary in different species of flowering plants.
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Plant Reproduction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify the different parts and function of a flower's reproductive system. In this biology lesson plan, students explain how pollination works. They watch a video and practice labeling parts of both flower and leaf.
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Meadows Observations

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate and examine the different living things they find in a meadow. Students record the different colors that are present and create a graph, identify and label parts of a plant, use a magnifying lens to examine all ...
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Why Are Bees Important?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars 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...
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Making a Brassica Model

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students apply skills they have learned to construct an accurate model of the Brassica and then work together on a group project. They analyze how the parts of a system go together, and how these parts depend on each other. Finally,...
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Salad Party

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students bring different plant parts in order to make one big salad. They observe each part and classify it.
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To Be (Half) Or Not To Be (Half)

For Teachers 1st
First graders demonstrate various ways to represent and verify a whole or set separated in two, three, or four equal parts. Using interlocking cubes, Students model a part of a whole or a part of a set. They use appropriate tools and...
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From One Seed Grow Many Seeds

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice identifying plants by singing a song.  In this plant life lesson, 1st graders sing the song "Parts of a Plant" which is based on the anatomy of sunflowers.  Students discover agriculture techniques while viewing a...
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Pumpkins . . . Not Just Part of Halloween

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners study the pumpkin. For this pumpkin lesson, students participate in different activities that explain the history of pumpkins and how pumpkins develop and grow, read "The Great Pumpkin Story" and answer comprehensive questions...
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Seed Structure and Seed Dispersal

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders plant seeds. In this seed structure lesson, 3rd graders identify parts of a seed and plant a lima bean seed.  Students discuss and reflect on the process in their journals. 
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Life Cycles

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars identify and explain the parts of a flower and their role in the life cycle of flowering plants. For this online plant biology lesson, students explore the processes of pollination, seed dispersal, and germination....
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Plants and Roots

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Pupils discuss the parts of the plant and perform an experiment in which they observe a plant's water transportation system. They become familiar with several local plants used for utilitarian purposes.
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The Amazing Antigravity Stem

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate how the stem of the plant carries water and minerals upwards from the roots to other parts of the plant. They observe what happens after a flower is placed in dyed water. They word process their observations...
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The Way a Tree Works

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore nature by conducting botany experiments. In this plant life activity, students define the necessary resources for a plant to thrive on our planet while defining scientific vocabulary terms. Students utilize different...
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Life cycles

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify and explain the parts of a flower and their role in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed dispersal, and germination. Students recap the following information: that plants need light, warmth,...
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Creating a Pollinator Garden

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students build a pollination garden. In this pollination lesson, students read directions and build a pollinator garden that will produce flowering plants for pollinator organisms to use in pollination of other plants.
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What on Earth is in the Earth?

For Teachers K
Students explore the physical properties of sand, soil, and rocks and sort, classify, compare, and contrast the materials found in the soil. The differences between the living and non-living parts of the soil is discussed.
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What Is A Plant?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore plants. In this plant activity, students examine organisms to determine which are plants. During this introductory activity, students explore characteristics of living things.

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