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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Evolution of Plants

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An extensive coverage of the evolutionary history of plants. Click on a topic in the outline and you'll go to a good discussion on this material.
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Learning From Leaves: From Observation to Inference [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A lesson plan in which students explore plants from three different ecosystems and make inferences about plant structures and their environments. Includes discussion questions, a vocabulary glossary, and handouts.
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Utah STEM Foundation

Utah Stem Action Center: Backyard Organisms

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Utah is a beautiful state with a rich and diverse population of living creatures. This activity challenges you to spend a few minutes outside thinking about and observing the organisms living in your backyard.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Simple Plants

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will gather moss from the schoolyard, and observe it carefully, documenting their observations in their science notebooks. They will develop an investigable question from their observations, design and run an investigation on...
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Temperature and Precipitation as Limiting Factors in Ecosystems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students correlate graphs of vegetation vigor with those of temperature and precipitation data for four diverse ecosystems, ranging from those near the equator to the poles, to determine which climatic factor is limiting growth.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Invasive Plants

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Invasive plants are non-native plants that grow in an environment that has no native diseases, parasites, or predators. This allows them to grow rapidly and be destructive to native plants.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Gymnosperms, Cone Bearing Vascular Plants

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will research printed encyclopedias, Internet resources (thinkfinity.org) and their science textbook to gather information to answer questions and draw an assigned portion of the Life Cycle of the Gymnosperms. This lesson plan...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 8: Color Your World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, students play a guessing game to explore different fruits and vegetables, emphasizing the diversity of colorful foods available for them to eat. Students prepare and eat a colorful, plant-based salad and brainstorm ways...

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