Help Detective Le Plant discover how a seed grows into a plant. Students will learn to describe a seed's structure and what's needed for seed growth.

Follow these step-by-step instructions to create a cute little friend with real-growing hair made of grass and grass seeds.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Plants seem to grow wherever they can. How? Plants can't move on their own. So how does a plant start growing in a new area? Learn more about seeds and seed...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An information text explaining how a seed grows into a plant. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Choose and plant your seeds, and then give them everything they need to grow in this interactive garden.

This lesson focuses on seeds and the plants they grow into. It includes kinds and sizes of seeds, pollination of plants, plant parts, how seeds travel, and what plants need to grow.

Check out this step-by-step experiment and, before you know it, you'll be growing a garden in a glove.

Knowsy Nina discovers what food plants need in order to grow in this episode! [5:00]

Students gather information from a variety of texts- literary and informational- to describe the connection between people, events, ideas, and pieces of information. Students are introduced to life cycles by learning about how a plant...

Students investigate different growth mediums for a lima bean seed: a wet paper towel and a paper cup with soil.

In this primary unit on plants, students use observational skills to compare and discuss the changes in plants. They identify plant parts, where seeds come from, and how they grow.

After planting three flower seeds (same variety), students will observe changes and note details about how they grow by keeping a log book to record these changes over a period of 8-10 weeks.

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. Both of these...

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.

This activity explains how to germinate a seed inside a CD case so that its growth is visible. The transparency of the case makes it simple to track its growth using a marker.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text showing how pumpkins grow. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

This site is an online science curriculum on how to grow plants on the Moon. There are six lessons that have a glossary also included. There are movies that demonstrate concepts, and teacher resources. The sites topics cover, the Earth,...

Start wildflowers from seed, find out what your hardiness zone is, learn about seed germination and sunlight needs of plants. All this and more.

In this lesson plan, 3rd graders will explore heating and cooling through pantomime. By enacting the effect of sunlight on a snowman and a growing seed, students will learn scientific information kinesthetically.

Visitors of this site will discover what plant life is found in the tundra and how they are able to survive the adverse weather conditions. Click on the yellow flower to start.

The objective of this lesson is to study the life cycle and structure of plants. Students learn about the concept of classifying objects as either living or non-living by growing plants from seeds, fertilizing them, collecting seed, then...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how a seed grows into a pumpkin. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Grow corn and bean seeds and measure their comparative growth over time.

Students of all ages wonder what happens to a seed when you plant it in the ground. Try this basic experiment and let them explore, pose questions, and make predictions.