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Study Jams! Plant Adaptations

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Mia video chats with Sam from Hawaii! They talk about plant adaptations that allow them to live in particular environments. Examples include the flexible stems and leaves, or floating seeds and flowers of aquatic plants. The adaptive...
Interactive
Khan Academy

Project: Build-a-House

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Start with a basic house created in JavaScript code and practice programming with loops as you add rows of windows, grass, flowers, or trees. How about some apples growing in the trees? You get the idea. Your coding students can let...
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Curated OER

Growing Lemons & Counting Numbers

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Have your young gardeners practice their counting with a lemon tree that's missing its lemons and a flower that's missing its leaves. Included are the two plants and a set of 10 lemons, 10 leaves, and 10 numbers. See the materials tab...
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Mexic-Arte Museum

El Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead Educational Activity Guide

For Students 6th - 12th
Here's a must-have activity guide for any celebration of El Dia de Los Muertos. The colorfully 56-page packet is packed with historical background, information about Mesoamerican cultures, images of the works of famous artists, and...
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Curated OER

Understanding the Complexities of Setting with Where the Lilies Bloom

For Teachers 6th - 8th
After reading Where the Lilies Bloom and researching the wildflowers and herbs mentioned in the novel, class members create a mural that reflects the setting of the novel. Groups design the background, the houses of the characters, the...
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Curated OER

Let's Have a Fiesta!

For Teachers 1st
First graders plan a Mexican fiesta, create a paper flower and cook a tortilla to eat with a fruit drink. They listen to Gary Soto's, Too Many Tamales and June Behrens', Fiesta! Cinco de Mayo.
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Curated OER

Bursting Blooms- Create an Early Spring

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students prune a tree.  In this gardening lesson, students select a shrub or tree that has a lot of flower buds and use sharp pruners to cut sections of branches.  Students place the cuttings into cool water and move into a...
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Curated OER

Very, Very, Simple Decorative Papers

For Teachers K - 6th
Elementary schoolers gather flowers, leaves, fiber, ribbons and newspapers to expand studenT awareness of their environment. They use these to make printmaking papers, cards, book covers, picture frames and photo mats. Beautiful results...
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Curated OER

Diploid Genetics and Chromosomal Inheritance

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Given the phenotypes of offspring in mice, flowers, and human blood type, genetics pupils practice determining the genotypes of the parents. Four short answer questions follow. The entire assignment will require learners to put on their...
PPT
University of Maryland

Pollination

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Sixteen ounces of honey requires more than 1,000 bees traveling over 100,000 miles and visiting 4.5 million flowers. The presentation includes sexual reproduction in plants, the parts and functions of a flower,...
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Desert Discovery

Saguaro Seasons

For Teachers 3rd
Elementary schoolers take a look at how the saguaro cactus adapts to the four seasons of the year. This amazing plant has distinct flowering and fruiting cycles within the summer season, and other cycles during the other seasons. Your...
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Curated OER

The Green Truck Garden Giveaway

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students read "The Green Truck Garden Giveaway" and explore the hobby of gardening. After observing illustrations in the book, students predict possible events in the story. They discuss gardening and write a story about a community...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Sums to 100

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Whether it's counting marbles, flowers, or playing cards, small objects can add up to great sums. Learners work six story problems to practice addition to 100. Some regrouping is required, along with distinguishing useful from irrelevant...
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Curated OER

Monet's Magical Garden

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students study classic paintings by masters like Monet. In this art history lesson, students listen to the story Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert and sing flower songs with the rest of their class. Students examine the painting The...
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DK Publishing

3 Times Table

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
This 25-chart will give mathematicians a chance to detect patterns as they shade in every multiple of three by skip counting. They solve multiplication number sentences involving three and the numbers 1-5 (one is done for them.) Finally,...
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DK Publishing

4 Times Table

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
It's all about the fours as scholars practice their multiplication facts. They skip count on a number chart, shading in each multiple of four. Do they notice a pattern? Next, scholars complete five number sentenes multiplying four by...
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Curated OER

All About Seeds!

For Students K - 2nd
How do fruits relate to flowers and seeds? Identify the seeds and their purpose with a coloring activity for kindergartners. Once they color the seeds of apples, bananas, and peas (among others), kids get hands-on experience with bean...
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Curated OER

The Use of Language in "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Readers of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings are asked to craft an essay in which they compare how Maya Angelou uses figurative language to depict herself and Mrs. Flowers. 
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Curated OER

Flora and Fauna as Figures of Speech

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
What a lovely way to incorporate artwork into your language arts lesson. View artwork in illustrated manuscript pages, depicting insects, animals, plants, flowers, and ornate writing in the Getty Museum. Practice using figurative...
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Curated OER

7.012 Genetics Section Problems

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
A set of phenotypes is listed for mice, flowers, blood type, and plants. For each, biology buffs analyze the percentages of phenotypes in the offspring and then identify the genotypes of the parents. This is a different approach to...
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Curated OER

Kodomo No Hi: Children's Day Celebration

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Children's Day is a beloved Japanese holiday with many colorful and engaging traditions. On this national holiday celebrated yearly on May 5, children are honored for their strengths and given good wishes for happiness. Your younger...
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Chicago Botanic Garden

Plant Phenology Data Analysis

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Beginning in 1851, Thoreau recorded the dates of the first spring blooms in Concord, and this data is helping scientists analyze climate change! The culminating instructional activity in the series of four has pupils graph and analyze...
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Curated OER

Color Garden

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners brainstorm types of flowers and the colors they can be. They are to keep a chart of the ones mentioned. They create their own paper flower garden on the bulletin board and examine books about flowers.
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Curated OER

Violets, Daffodils, Roses and Thorn

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders complete a variety of exercises and activities surrounding the scientific and artistic properties of the parts and processes of a plant/flower.

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