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Fibonacci Numbers
Students calculate the Fibonacci sequence of numbers. Through the use of Fibonacci numbers in flowers, leaves, fruits, vegetables, pine cones, and other forms of nature; students explore how Fibonacci numbers occur in nature. Then they...
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The Joy of a Garden-Earth Day
Learners explore the purpose of a garden. In this Earth Day lesson, students read the story The Gardener and complete a Venn diagram comparing life in a city to farm life. Learners discuss Earth Day and plant flowers in a garden .
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I'm Here, I'm There, I'm Everywhere-I'm Super Spud!
Students generate a computer model of a potato plant. In this potato lesson plan, students study the history of potatoes, the variety of potatoes, the functions of the potato plant parts, and make a potato model on the computer.
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Sock Walk (Seed Dispersal)
Students collect seeds from field plants as part of understanding seed dispersal.
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Honeybee
Students investigate honeybees and the importance of honeybees to humans. They identify the various parts of a bee's body using velcro parts, role-play a hive, and answer review questions.
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Valentines Roses
Young scholars create bouquets of roses using tissue paper, pipe cleaners, masking tape, paint, and construction paper in this early elementary art lesson. A possible extension includes making Vlentine's Day cards to go along with the...
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The Bulbs: Camas and Daffodil
Fourth graders become aware of the importance of the camas bulb to the Nez Perce people, they learn the parts of plants, and gain understanding of the interdependence of Nature. They study about the possible causes and outcomes of global...
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"Ode to the Bluebonnet"
Fourth graders create an acrostic poem using the word "bluebonnet" They brainstorm adjectives and descriptive phrases for the bluebonnet and its habitat. They read The Legend of the Bluebonnet, by Tomie de Paola. students integrate...
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Peanut Anatomy
Students explore the peanut plant. In this peanut instructional activity, students discuss the needs and parts of regular plants. They research peanut plants to see why they are unique.
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Around the Water Cycle--A Reader's Theater
Students read aloud a play script in a group to research the water cycle. They take the parts of raindrops. The amount of raindrops can be adjusted to fit group size.
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Knock On Wood
Students investigate the trees of the Mississippi Valley, specifically looking at the coniferous and deciduous forests. The research of the area is part of a field study when students conduct a survey of local forests in order to create...
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Plotting Points
Eighth graders practice plotting points on a coordinate plane. As a class, they create and label the parts of a graph. Given ordered pairs, they plot the points, connect them to reveal a particular shape, and find the area of the shape.
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Nuts About Peanuts
First graders explore peanuts. In this peanut lesson plan, 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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My Spelling Words: Spelling List #68
In this spelling activity, students practice reading and writing ten spelling words dealing with parts of a plant. They define six given words and identify all words in a word search puzzle.
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Using Your Senses
In this using your senses worksheet, students read a 1 page article on senses and then connect 6 body parts to their actual senses by drawing a line from one to the other.
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Make Your Own Garden
Students explore gardening. For this Quiet in the Garden lesson plan, students read the picture book by Aliki and extend the lesson by taking part in up to 5 hands-on activities.
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Archaeology For Kids Quiz 85
In this archaeology for kids quiz 85 worksheet, student interactively answer 12 multiple choice questions about honoring the dead in ancient cultures, as part of an online magazine.
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Yum Yum: Making Vegetable Soup
Young scholars investigate agriculture by reading a book. In this plant life lesson, students read the book Growing Vegetable Soup by Louis Ehlert, and examine the ingredients used in the book's soup. Young scholars create an...
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Seasons--Spring
Learning about the seasons, and the vocabulary associated with it, are important for both elementary and ESL students. Using an attractive and varied format, this 20 question activity has students identify words related to spring, and...
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Drills "Passive Voice"
For this verbs online interactive worksheet, learners determine the voice and tense to 9 verb phrases. Students choose the multiple choice passive tense verbs to make 6 sentences passive. Learners formulate 6 sentences with passive...
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Am, Is, and Are
In this am, is, and are worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences and phrases with the words am, is, or are after words and about pictures. Students complete 20 activities total.
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Rewriting Sentences
In this grammar worksheet, learners rewrite twenty sentences by changing the subject from plural to singular or singular to plural. Students keep all the verbs in the present tense.
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Subject-Verb Agreement
In this grammar worksheet, students underline the subject in twenty-five sentences and then circle the correct verb in parentheses that makes each one grammatically correct.
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Regular and Irregular Plural Nouns
In this regular and irregular plural nouns instructional activity, students determine words to complete sentences and change them to plural tense. Students fill in the blank to complete ten sentences.