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Desert Plant Adaptations in the Sonoran Desert
Students are able to identify adaptations that plants have developed to deal with harsh desert conditions, as well as explain how these adaptations help to protect these plants.
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Edible and Medicinal Plants: Field Trip Guide
Though it's designed to guide a field trip to the New York Botanical Garden, you could take resource like this one to a local park, wilderness area, school garden, or even a weedy empty lot. Middle schoolers identify plant parts and...
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Plants
One slide reviews the main plant parts and most of the remaining slides address seven plant processes of life. This is a different approach to introducing the life of a plant. Three tasks are assigned to viewers on the last slide, making...
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Learning the Parts of a Plant
First graders discover the anatomy of a plant by labeling a picture. For this botany lesson, 1st graders examine and dissect several real plants in class and define their different parts. Students utilize the Internet to view...
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What is Cacao?
Students use the Internet to learn about the cacao plant. For this plants lesson, students complete a KWL chart on chocolate, learn about cocoa plants and discuss the parts of a plant. Students use the Internet to learn how the cacao...
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Yum Yum: Making Vegetable Soup
Students investigate agriculture by reading a book. In this plant life lesson, students read the book Growing Vegetable Soup by Louis Ehlert, and examine the ingredients used in the book's soup. Students create an experimental,...
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Plant Parts
In this plant parts activity, students read for information and demonstrate comprehension. In this true and false, fill in the blank, short answer, and multiple choice activity, students answer ten questions.
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Parts of a Plant
Pupils explore biology by listening to an in-class lecture. In this plant science lesson, students sing songs with their classmates regarding anatomical parts of a plant and create plants from arts and crafts materials. Pupils listen to...
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What Parts Are There to a Plant?
Students explore botany by completing plant science worksheets. In this plant anatomy lesson, students examine real vegetables in class using magnifying glasses. Students identify the plants anatomy and complete worksheets discussing...
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Dry Forest: Flowers
Students explore botany by examining diagrams. In this plant reproduction activity, students define a list of plant vocabulary terms and identify plant anatomy from a diagram. Students complete several plant activity worksheets and study...
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Parts of a Plant
In this parts of a plant activity, 2nd graders write the name of 3 numbered parts of the plant diagram, then color the picture; part names are not given.
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The Way a Tree Works
Students explore nature by conducting botany experiments. In this plant life lesson, students define the necessary resources for a plant to thrive on our planet while defining scientific vocabulary terms. Students utilize different plant...
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Plants, Plants, and More Plants
Students examine several types of plants. For this plant lesson, students complete activities that require them to identify types of plants, chart plant anatomy, and explain plant propagation.
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Parts Of A Plant
In this parts of a plant worksheet, students answer six multiple choice questions about the parts of a plant, such as seed, leaf, stem and roots.
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Botany
In this botany worksheet, students read a 2 page article on botany, choose the multiple choice answer to 3 questions, determine if 3 statements are true of false and fill in the blanks in 5 facts about botany.
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Identify parts of a plant
In this science based worksheet, students utilize a book about plants to draw a picture of a plant and identify as many parts of the plant as they can. Students also label each part of the plant of their choice.
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Investigating Monocots and Dicots
Students know about monocotyledons and dicotyledons. They explore the differences between the seed structure of the two by examining bean and corn seeds. They sprout seed to observe the differences in both of their growths.