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Plant Life Cycle: Quiz Game
Play the game, Who Wants to be a Millionaire? to review plant parts, life cycle, and pollination. There are 10 questions that get kids thinking about seeds, seed dispersal, pollination, and plant parts. This game is has audio and looks...
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Native Beauty
Students plant wild flowers and maintain their garden. In this wild flowers lesson plan, students pick and prepare a gardening site, plant wild flowers, and maintain it everyday.
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Pollination Parties!
Students conduct research on a specified plant and how it is pollinated. In this pollination activity, students discover how bees pollinate plants and make life better for humans. After completing research, individuals compile a class...
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If the Forests Could TAlk
Third graders research insects using the internet sites provided. They research the role of insects as pollinators for plants, and the impact they have on our ecosystem. They participate in various activities/centers utilizing the facts...
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The Flower and the Fly
It's like a biological "Beauty and the Beast!" The fascinating mutualism between a South African meganosed fly and a deep-throated geranium builds a case study in coevolution for your biology buffs to analyze. After reading about this...
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Plant Reproduction
Learners identify the different parts and function of a flower's reproductive system. In this biology lesson, students explain how pollination works. They watch a video and practice labeling parts of both flower and leaf.
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Plant Reproduction
In this plant reproduction activity, students complete a crossword puzzle with 36 questions. They identify the different plant reproductive features.
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Flowers and Pollination
Learners explore the environment by researching plant reproduction. In this pollination lesson, students define botany related vocabulary terms such as disc flower, petal and fertilization. Learners dissect a flower with their classmates...
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Adopt-An-Insect: Scavenger Hunts 1, 2, and
In this insect scavenger hunt learning exercise, students use the charts to keep track of the 52 insects they attempt to find as they complete 3 scavenger hunts.
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From Flower to Fruit
Second graders examine the parts of a flower and how pollination occurs. In this flowers and pollination lesson plan, 2nd graders examine the parts of a flower with a hand lens focusing on the pollen. They watch as a pollinator such as a...
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Mutualism and Co-evolution A study of Flowering Plants and their Pollinators: Biology, Plants
These lessons use a variety of methods and approaches to teach flowering plant biology which includes seed germination; plant growth and food production through photosynthesis; plant transpiration and respiration; sexual reproduction...
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Flower Structure and Reproduction
In this plant science learning exercise, students color and label the different parts of the flower. They write short answers to 14 questions about flowers.
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Bees
Students design an experiment. In this bees lesson, students research pollination and work collaboratively to discover how bees aid in pollination. Students use tomato plants and create experimental designs. Lesson adaptations and...
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Green Plants
Beginning botanists are introduced to the world of plants with this PowerPoint. Some of the information is most appropriate for primary learners, such as the needs of a plant. Some of the information, however, is more directed at...
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Flower Basics
Learn about plants and pollination with a worksheet about the parts of a flower. After labeling the anatomy of a flower using a word bank, kids explain the difference between self-pollination and cross-pollination, and unscramble the...
K12 Reader
What’s Eating You?
Introduce your class to producers, consumers, and pollinators with a reading passage. Class members read the text and respond to five related questions.
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Using Plant Pigments as Natural Dyes
Students create friendship bracelets and quilt squares. In this plant lesson student dye their own string and cotton material with plant pigments. Students use the naturally dyed materials to create the friendship bracelets and quilt...
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Plant Parts Resource Pages
In this plant worksheet, students study the names of plant parts and the function of each part. There are no questions associated with this page.
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Adopt-An-Insect
In this biology worksheet, middle schoolers locate examples of various types of insects listed in the chart and receive a point value for each according to its significance. Then they identify body parts and habitat for each item.
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Plant Party
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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Bug Work
Students explore the life cycles of insects and how they interact with each other in the prairie to create a healthy ecosystem and viable food chain. They list animals or insects in their own community that are similar to the prairie...
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What Bees Eat
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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Creepy, Crawly Critters
Young scholars study characteristics of insects by creating models from an assortment of materials. They create rubrics showing what an insect must have and create an insect, using a bag of materials. They cut out the puzzle insects...
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Co-evolution of Plants and Pollinators
Students, while studying the rolls of pollinators and plants, explore co-evolution of mutualistic relationships.