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What Bees Eat

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students consider the concept that plants and animals are dependent on one another and role-play the interaction between bees and flowers. They identify crops that are dependent on pollination by bees.
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Tree Chart

For Teachers 2nd
students identify questions about trees and plants to include their importance, parts, and systems. They list the things they know, want to know, and how they are going to study it.
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Forest Friends Forever

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students investigate how to use the senses to gather information about objects such as size, shape, color, texture, sound, position, and change (qualitative observations are utilized throughout this lesson). They investigate and explain...
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Plankton

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students research phytoplankton and zooplankton. In this food chain lesson, students read This is the Sea That Feeds Us and discuss plankton, food chains, and webs. Students define phytoplankton and compare them to land plants. Students...
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Vegetative Propagation Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students, in this project, successfully start new plants by various means of vegetative propagation.
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What is Inside a Seed?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students observe how the bean seed has changed after being soaked in water overnight and record their observations. They open the bean and observe the inside. Finally, students draw and label the parts of a bean seed and write the...
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Making a Brassica Model

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students apply skills they have learned to construct an accurate model of the Brassica and then work together on a group project. They analyze how the parts of a system go together, and how these parts depend on each other. Finally,...
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School Site Ecosystem

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders are introduced to the concept of ecosystem; specifically, the interrelationships among plants and animals within an ecosystem, and their relationships to the environment in which they live and interact.
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Grapevine Magic

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners explore plant uses. Students observe the process of changing grapes to raisins as a method of preserving a plant part for human use.
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Sock Walk (Seed Dispersal)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners collect seeds from field plants as part of understanding seed dispersal.
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Nuts About Peanuts

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore peanuts. For this peanut lesson, 1st graders examine the parts of peanut plants and identify them. Students plant their own peanut plants and chart their growth.
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Seed Diversity

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners explore agriculture by researching different seeds. In this seed identification lesson plan, students collaborate in small groups to analyze a package of different seeds. Learners utilize a magnifying glass to examine each seed...
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Exploring Ecosystems

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create an ecosystem as a class. They have already produced smaller ones. They use a pond or something similar on school grounds to meet the needs of certain plants and animals of their ecosystem. Specifically created will...
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Pollination

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate pollination. In this plant biology lesson plan, students study a diagram of the reproductive parts of the flower and dissect and identify the parts of a real flower.
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Flower Power

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students use video learning to explore how flowers make seeds and dissect their own flower, and make a flower with its reproductive parts out of construction paper.
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Animal Diversity

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars examine plants and animals for their similarties and differences. They are read stories and note how the animals in the stories do not have the qualities that real animals have. They complete a worksheet to end the lesson...
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Nuclear Power Gets A Boost

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars examine nuclear plants and how they use fission reactions to generate electricity, compare fusion reactions to fission, and read about technology that may soon allow fusion to become practical for producing nuclear power...
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Galapagos: Beyond Darwin

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify plants and animals endemic in their local area after learning about the plants and animals of the Galapagos Islands. In this plants and animals lesson plan, students create an endemic garden on school grounds.
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Dinnertime On The Reef

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify the main parts of a coral reef. They describe a coral reef food chain.
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Tropical Treehouse

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners examine the tropical rainforest and issues involving the uses of rainforests. They explore the plants and animals that live in each level of the tropical rainforest. Students examine and discuss a case study involving the rights...
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The Life Cycle of a Flowering Plant

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this flowering plant worksheet, learners will review vocabulary words associated with the life cycle of flowering plants. This worksheet has 7 matching and 3 short answer questions.
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Worksheet 9: Reading: Global Warming

For Students 4th - Higher Ed
Using an interesting reading passage about global warming, learners answer true and false questions related to the topic. This 6 question activity could be used in upper elementary or as part of an ESL lesson.
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World Climate Growing Zones

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create a map showing where crops would be grown around the world. In this crops lesson plan, students show how the world climate would produce different parts of the world at different times. Students fill out worksheets.
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Life in the Kelp Forest

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research and create a marine food web to learn about plants and animals in a kelp forest. In this marine food web lesson plan, students draw lines between kelp forest predators and prey and show the flow of energy in the food...

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