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A Pressing Project

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars create a collection of pressed plants. In this plant lesson, students use newspaper, plywood, and a rubberband to press plants they previously collected.
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Plant Party

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students identify plant parts. In this plants lesson, students bring in a vegetable. Each student classifies which part of the plant their vegetable comes from (flower, root, ect.) Students identify the parts of their vegetable and later...
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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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Desert Discoveries

Built for the Desert

For Teachers 3rd
The saguaro cactus has an amazing ability to survive in a harsh environment. Learners identify the many adaptations for desert life that the saguaro employs. They look at each part of the saguaro and determine what role it plays in the...
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Shopping

For Students 6th - 12th
Talk about what you bought last weekend with plenty of activities centered around the theme of shopping. English language learners have the opportunity to listen, speak, write, and read over the course of these exercises. The resource...
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Organisms in Symbiosis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Searching for an activity that allows emerging biologists to explore symbiosis up close and personal? Pupils collect samples and view lichens through a microscope and conclude with a discussion about the relationship they have...
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Flowers, Flowers, Flowers...A Visit with Georgia O'Keeffe

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars analyze, discuss, and research Georgia O'Keeffe and her flower paintings. They select a flower to paint and create a watercolor painting in the style of Georgia O'Keeffe. Students compose a poem describing their painting.
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Future Tense of Verbs

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In these future tense of verbs worksheets, students write the future tense of the verbs to complete the first 5 sentences. Students then answer the questions in complete sentences using the future tense of the verb. Students write the...
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Bigger Flowers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students observe and compare real flowers and artists' paintings of flowers. They discuss a flower and its parts. Students discuss the color (color wheel) and are introduced to new vocabulary. They draw, color, or paint a large flower...
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Flowers -- The Smile of Divine Love

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students collect quotations and information on flowers. They write poems about flowers and grow their own. They draw pictures of different flowers and add descriptions of them.
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Growing Jack and the Beanstalk Plants

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate how plants grow by growing their own "beanstalk", (after reading "Jack and the Beanstalk") and record their observations daily in a science journal.
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Tiptoe Through the Tulips

For Students 3rd
In this estimation worksheet, 3rd graders look over 4 pictures and choose by multiple choice what part of each garden is planted with tulips. Students draw two original maps as requested at the bottom of the worksheet.
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Too Bee Or Not To Bee

For Teachers K
Students recognize that bees are important in the reproduction of plants and to the survival of animals.  In this bee lesson plan, students become familiar with the parts of bees and how those adaptations help them pollinate plants....
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Wigglers, Tumblers, & Bloodsuckers

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners explore the life stages of a mosquito. In this animal biology instructional activity, students read Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema and complete several activities including an experiment with mosquito...
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Volcanoes

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students make a volcano out of a soda bottle, flower, salt, oil, and more. In this volcanoes lesson plan, students also read about volcanoes.
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Life Cycle of Brassica Plants: Planting Seeds

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore botany by participating in a calendar class activity. In this plant observation lesson plan, students examine a diagram of a Brassica plant and identify its anatomy before planting their own seeds and viewing the changes...
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A Leaf, a Stem, a Root, Oh My!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students conduct Internet research on plants and complete a WebQuest on vegetable plants. They use a graphic organizer to display their findings, observe actual vegetables and design a salad, noting which part of each plant is included.
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Creating a Leaf Collection and Classroom Herbarium

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students categorize leaves they collect from trees outdoors by consulting a variety of sources. They discuss how the form of a leaf reflects its adaptation to its environment.
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Arts & Humanities

Make Your Own Flower Garden

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Get into art with a little lesson on flower parts. The class reviews basic information regarding flowers and then they use a paper mosaic technique to create visual representations of the lovely plants.
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Predicate Noun/ Predicate Adjective Recognition Practice

For Teachers 5th - 7th
For this subject and predicate worksheet, young scholars learn how to identify the subject, verb and predicate noun or adjective. Students make 3 columns on a piece of paper and for ten sentences, identify the subject, verb, and...
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Periods, Question Marks, Exclamation Points, and Quotation Marks

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students supply all necessary punctuation marks in fifteen sentences. Students place a C in the space provided if the sentence is correct.
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95 Nouns

For Students 2nd - 3rd
A list of 95 nouns provides a great example to define nouns for your class. They can keep this at their desks for reference. Also, you can cut the list into strips to keep in a "noun jar," or have kids circle their favorite ones! This...
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Simple Future Tense: Exercise 5

For Students 6th - 8th
Here’s a practice set for the simple future tense and the present tense with an adverb form. No answer key is provided, but a brief explanation of these tense forms does precede each exercise set. This resource could be used as a pretest...
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Collective Nouns

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this grammar worksheet, students read the definition of collective nouns. They complete 17 phrases using the words from a word bank at the bottom of the page. They write more collective nouns on the back of the page.

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