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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: What Plants Need in Order to Survive and Grow: Water [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
A lesson plan unit where students work in small groups to conduct an experiment with two cacti to test whether plants need water.
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Michigan Reach Out

Michigan Reach Out: Do Plants Need Sunlight?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Do plants need sunlight? What happens to plants if they do not get sunlight? Students will act like scientists in order to answer these questions. A scientist takes questions like this and then conducts an experiment to see what really...
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Seeds, Soil, and Surprises

For Teachers K - 1st
This site has excellent resources for teaching students about plants. It has a guide to scientific investigation and a glossary of plant terms. There are three lessons that each include a slideshow on the parts of a plant, the needs of...
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: What Plants Need in Order to Survive and Grow: Light [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
A lesson plan unit where young scholars conduct an experiment in small groups to test whether plants need light or not.
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: What Plants Need in Order to Survive and Grow: Air [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
A lesson unit where students work in small groups to examine stomata on a leaf's upper and lower surfaces. They then conduct an experiment to test whether plants can survive without air, learning about transpiration in the process.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Do Plants Need?

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
In this lesson, students will understand that in order to grow healthy plants, soil, water, light, and air must be provided. Students will use math skills such as measurement and science process skills such as observation, comparing, and...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Water and Plants How Dry I Am

For Teachers 1st
Activity helps students understand that plants need water to live.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Biodomes

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore the biosphere's environments and ecosystems, learning along the way about the plants, animals, resources and natural cycles of our planet. Over the course of lessons 2-6, students use their growing understanding of...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Plant Life

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explains what resources plants need to grow, the parts of a plant, a word search, and questions to use with the Activotes.
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Rooting Into the Soil [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
An experiment to investigate the capacity of different soils to retain water, and how this impacts on the survival, evolution, and adaptations of plants. Extension activities are included.
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Learning From Leaves [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
An investigation into how light levels affect leaf adaptations in plants.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: An Overview of the Plant Growth Process

For Students 3rd - 5th
Discusses the basic needs of plants and the stages they go through in developing from a seed.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: The Great Plant Escape

For Students 3rd - 5th
Inspector LePlant and his friends look at the world of plants in this site for younger students. Features include the parts of plants and the seven basic requirements that plants need to survive as well as a short quiz.
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eSchool Today

E School Today: Introduction to Photosynthesis

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find out about the needs of plants to grow and live.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Do Plants Need Water?

For Teachers 1st
Activity focuses on the impact of water on seed germination.
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TVOntario

Tvo Kids: Games: Get Growing

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Choose and plant your seeds, and then give them everything they need to grow in this interactive garden.
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Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: Habitat Overcrowding

For Students 3rd - 5th
An experiment where several containers are set up with different numbers of seeds planted in each. The objective is to investigate how seed density affects the health of the plants that grow.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Seeds to Plants: How to Grow a Plant

For Teachers K - 1st
An experiment where first-graders plant seeds and monitor their growth. Prior to planting, they decide on an inquiry question, and how they will find out the answer through the experiment.
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Hunkins Experiments

Hunkin's Experiments: Potato Maze

For Students 3rd - 9th
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This one is a...
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Making Community Measurements: Which Plant Part? [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
A lesson in observing a plant or plant community in different seasons for the purposes of recording observable changes.
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HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Probing Into Plant Parts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson plan learners will obtain a better understanding of a plant's needs, and how the various parts of the organism help it to meet its needs. Students will understand how some plants are alike and different.
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The Wonder of Science

The Wonder of Science: 5 Ls1 1: Plant Requirements: Air and Water

For Teachers 5th
Create lessons to show that plants use air and water primarily to grow with help from the resources on this site. Use the work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos to help students understand the requirements of plants to...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Redwoods at Redwood National Park

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from NatureScene describes the characteristics of redwood trees at Redwood National Park. [4:02]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Nature Cat: Story Exploration Packet (Spanish)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Mientras ven Nature Cat, utilice estas herramientas para guiar las discusiones y actividades de aprendizaje. Tally ho!

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