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Importance of Fresh Vegetables and Fruits in Our Diets
Learners explore the importance of fruits and vegetables in our diets. For this science lesson, students discuss various types of fruits and vegetables. Learners play the good health=good diet game. Students discuss types of fruits and...
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Plant Parts and Their Diseases
Students see how certain plants are very important to us. They explain that healthy plants are important to keep people healthy. They study the major parts of a plant (root, stems, leaves, flowers, fruit and seeds) and their basic...
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Soggy Seeds
Students conduct experiments to learn about seed germination. In this seed germination activity, students write a hypothesis for the seed experiment. students complete the experiment for seed germination and graph the data obtained from...
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PLANT LIFE CYCLES
Student learns about the life cycle of plants by watching a time-lapse video. This activity provides learners with further evidence that all living things grow and change as they progress through their life cycle.
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Tiptoe Through the Tulips
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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Grow a Plant
Young scholars combine their prior knowledge about plants with a garden learning activity. In this science gardening lesson, students discuss what plants need to survive. Young scholars then plant a seed themselves and demonstrate...
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Nurturing Green Thumbs at School
Incorporating a school garden into the curriculum cultivates many benefits.
Captain Planet Foundation
P is for Poppies
Explore the way local farming and rationing helped the war effort in World War I with a lesson plan on gardening. After learning about trench warfare, reading "In Flanders' Field" by John McCrae, and studying poppies, kids discuss...
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Climate Change Bingo
Here is a 20-box bingo card to use when exploring ways that humans impact the environment. Various environmentally aware activities are listed in the boxes, and learners circulate the room to find someone who practices the different...
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Seedfolks Journal Entry Choices
Keep your class thinking about Seedfolks after they read each chapter by requiring them to keep a journal about the story. Hand out these journal entry prompts at the beginning of the story so that your learners know what to expect. For...
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Dana's Flower Garden
In this spring reading comprehension worksheet, students read a one page story about flowers and gardening. Students then answer 6 questions about the story.
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Introduction to Nutrition and Gardening
Students examine the different parts of a plant and each ones role. In this exploratory lesson students complete several activities including a game of charades.
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Garden in an Egg Carton
Young scholars investigate the growth of seedlings planted in egg cartons in the classroom. Measurements are taken as the plants grow and charts created to organize the data.
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Pasta Triangles - A Triangle Inequality Activity
Students explore, examine and experiment with pasta sticks to discover the triangle inequality principle. They assess if any three lines or segments fit together to form a triangle. Each student also completes a Triangle Recording Chart...
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Container Gardening: American History Herb Garden
In this settler's garden worksheet, students write which herbs they chose to grow and how the settlers used that herb. Students fill in 3 herbs and 3 ways the settlers used them.
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Using Sterile Techniques as a Tool in Studying Plant Diseases
Seventh graders examine the concept of sterile techniques. They realize that plant diseases can be identified and classified in various way. Students identify some of the diseases that attack the garden plants.
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Shopping: a Pre-Intermediate Vocabulary Worksheet
In this shopping worksheet, learners read about shopping words and store types, and complete a crossword puzzle. Students complete 13 spaces in the crossword puzzle.
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Design a Wildlife Habitat-Habitat Detective
Students discuss ways people have changed landscapes and how this effects wildlife. They map the area around their school and keep a journal of wildlife they see. They predict how to preserve the wildlife they see for future generations.
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Plant, Point and Record the Life Cycles of Plants
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 plan, they plant their own flower bed in the...
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How do rice farmers make good use of the land they use for planting rice?
Second graders discuss how farmers grow rice. In this rice growing lesson plan, 2nd graders see the optimal condition for land in order to grow rice. They experiment with clay and garden soil to see which holds water better.
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Window Gardens
Students use a plastic sandwich bag containing a damp paper towel taped to a window as a model system to observe the germination and early growth of radish seeds. They are challenged to pose a question about seed germination and growth...
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Earthworms and Making a Wormery
Students explore the environment by researching insects. In this earthworm lesson, students utilize soil and plexiglass to build a see through wormery in which students can observe the worms at work. Students identify the benefits of...
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Have to Have a Habitat
Students create a zoological and botanical garden made up of a variety of species from around the world.
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One Grain at a Time
Middle schoolers investigate deserts. In this geography lesson, students create a KWL chart about deserts and research information on deserts by using reference books. Middle schoolers record the characteristics of deserts and the...