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A Garden in the Mailbox

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students study seed catalogs to find information about plants and growing seasons. They write letters requesting a seed catalog after using online resources. They use them complete an associated worksheet and discuss zone maps for their...
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Container Gardening: Direct Seeding

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this science experiment worksheet, students record a check next to the 10 plants that they plan on growing in containers. Students place their containers in full sunlight.
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Circles and Ovals: Flower

For Students K - 1st
In this coloring shapes worksheet, students trace the circles and color them yellow. Students trace the ovals and color them pink. Students then trace the ovals and circles at the bottom of the page.
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Bugs Lesson Plan

For Teachers K
Students complete a unit of lessons on insects. They participate in a bug hunt, construct paper flowers, discuss pollination, create bug paperweights and insect mobiles, play bug charades, and participate in a bug scavenger hunt.
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Subtract Whole Numbers

For Students 4th - 5th
In this subtraction worksheet, students solve a total of 6 word problems related to exotic plants and botanical gardens that use subtraction of whole numbers.
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Painting - Science Integration - Ponds - Monet - Painting

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify Monet as an Impressionist artist. They create impressions of trees and bushes, paint with sponges, and mix tints and shades. They create impressions of flowers with q-tip dabbing and mixing tints and shades.
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Start A Seed Collection

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this start a seed collection worksheet, students collect, label and display 15 seeds 3 each from a garden flower, a vegetable, a wildflower, a weed and the kitchen, and observe the differences.
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Apple for the Teacher

For Teachers Pre-K
Students use apples to create a fall flower gift. In this art lesson, students core apples, and place a floral vial with a flower in the apple. Students give the project as a gift.
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Going on a Seed Safari

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students describe biology by identifying different plants in class. For this seed lesson, students discuss the process of how a plant grows from seed to leaves. Students attend a field trip to their garden or another park and collect a...
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Genetics Crossword

For Students 6th - 10th
In this biology activity, students complete a crossword puzzle with 38 questions on genetics. They identify the different parts and functions of a flower.
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Plant, Point and Record the Life Cycles of Plants

For Teachers K - 6th
Students examine the life cycle of plants. Individually, they are given a digital camera in which they take pictures of plants in the various stages of the life cycle. To end the lesson, they plant their own flower bed in the classroom...
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Mother's Day Craft

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a flower pot for their mom on mother's day. They use pictures found in magazines to create a collage on the flower pot. They are to follow instructions to complete this instructional activity.
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Explore: 1st Grade Plant Observation

For Teachers 1st
First graders grow seeds in a mini terrarium. They compare the root systems, stems, leaves, and flowers of the different plants. They categorize the plants and discuss the basic functions of plant parts.
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Adding Details to Pictures

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this art activity, students examine 4 different pictures and in each one, add details specified in the directions. Students add curly tails to some pigs, a fishing net in a boy's hand, flower stems to a bouquet and some whiskers and a...
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Sunny Sunflowers

For Teachers 1st
First graders, after assessing how plants grow in relation to light, create models of sunflowers within a game to help them remember their science lesson. In addition, their visual models serve as a demonstration of photo tropism in...
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Sunflower Sundance

For Teachers 1st
First graders study sunflower plants and identify its parts. They plant sunflower seeds and watch them grow and make sunflowers out of paper plates and colored paper. They watch videos and visit websites about sunflowers.
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Springtime Coloring Picture

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this coloring picture worksheet, students color a springtime picture that includes flowers growing in a garden. They color a butterfly that is watering the garden.
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Tracing and Coloring Practice

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this pre-printing practice worksheet, students trace a set of dots forming a picture of a flower, then color. Page has multiple links to additional resources.
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Picture Prompt: Plants

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this writing worksheet, students study a picture of garden and forest trees and flowers and then write a story pertaining to the picture. There is a word box labeled for students to create a word bank.
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Forget-Me-Knots in a Pot

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss Alaska's state flower and grow their own flowers in pots. They discover skills needed for gardening and plant care. Once students have researched the state flower, they draw pictures of forget-me-knots and list the...
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The Lepidoptera Project

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students are introduced to Scientific Inquiry and discover how to design an experiment that answers critical questions using butterflies as the topic. They design experiments that compare the number of species of butterflies in a vacant,...
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Grow a Plant

For Teachers K - 1st
Students combine their prior knowledge about plants with a garden learning activity. In this science gardening lesson, students discuss what plants need to survive. Students then plant a seed themselves and demonstrate learning by caring...
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Stem Cuttings

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students select the best non-flowering stems of plants and remove the leaves from the soon to be buried portion of the stem. They fill seedling flats with soil and insert the cuttings, label, and water.
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Let's Think About... Change

For Teachers K
Students observe various examples of "change." They mix paint to cereate new colors, eat bread and then toasted bread, and match baby pictures with pictures of how the same people look in the present. Finally, they watch a bouquet of...