Curated OER
Living Water
Students read an ancient Asian fairy tale. While visiting a local park, they collect both male and female seeds found in cones. They identify the type of trees they found the cones by and discuss what they are used for. In groups, they...
Curated OER
Growing With Compost
Students discuss the positives and negatives of composting. They plant their own plant using composting material and record results. They create a poster for the classroom.
Curated OER
Technology In The Early Elementary Classroom
First graders explore the creation of the world and what was created on each specific day. They read the creation of the world from the Bible, watch a video, and sing a song about the Creator. Using Kid Pix software, 1st graders create...
Curated OER
Spring Fling
Students take part in a number of activities that center around a spring theme. They draw the steps to show process of growing seeds.
Curated OER
Walk and Learn
Fourth graders take a nature walk on a nice sunny spring day. They discuss different things in nature. They write down observations in their notebook.
Curated OER
Our Environment
Students engage in a literature study that helps students to connect with some of the issues of conservation. They list parts of the environment that need protection with the help of a graphic organizer. Then students discuss in groups...
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Biology of Plants: Pollination
Learn the parts of a flower and how a plant gets pollinated. Includes video, songs, diagrams, and lesson plans.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Plants and Animals: Partners in Pollination
Smithsonian Education presents a series of three lesson plans whose focus is plants and animals in their role as partners in pollination. Each lesson comes complete with clear learning objectives, materials list, subjects covered,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Angiosperms Plants With Flowers
By using a hands-on activity,the students will learn about the Life Cycle of the Angiosperms. Students will learn about the female and male parts of a flower. This would be a great activity to follow a unit on reproduction in flowering...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Flowering Plants
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the parts of a flower and the classification and evolution of flowering plants.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Jonathan Driori: The Beautiful Tricks of Flowers
In this brillant talk, Jonathan Drori shows the amazing ways flowering plants have evolved to attract pollinators and discusses how plants reproduce in a variety of ways. [13:49]
abcteach
Abcteach: Science: Plants
[Free Registration/Login Required] Generate comparison charts, crosswords, and journals for recording data on plants and plants processes. One can also find lesson plans and plant experiments, as well as flower and tree resources.
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Growing Flowers
A lesson for young ELL students on how to grow flowers. Teachers will meet the ESL TESOL standards. Lots of resources included in this activity.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Plants Tell Time
Morning glories unfurl their petals like clockwork in the early morning. A closing white waterlily signals that it's late afternoon. And moon flowers, as their name suggests, only bloom under the night sky. What gives plants this innate...
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Lesson: Plant Investigations
In groups, have students research and present plants that are on their plate. These plants can be a combination of all of their cultures or students can pick one culture to research and present on. Students will need to classify that...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Pollination Parties
This instructional activity helps students understand the concept of pollination. Objectives, materials, procedures, adaptations, discussion questions, evaluation, extensions, suggested readings, links, vocabulary, and academic standards...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Investigating the Structure of the Flower
This lesson plan has students make a model of a flower's structure using clay, toothpicks, and construction paper.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Plants and Animals
In this lesson plan, young students will be able to identify a plant's parts, explain their functions, diagram a plant, and create a mobile to demonstrate their understanding.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Plant Reproduction: Lesson 2
This lesson will provide an overview of plant reproduction.
Other
Camp Silos: Exploring the Prairie
An excellent site for studying the Iowa prairie. Offers wonderful facts and interactive activities for students to do individually or as a group. Identifies national standards and lesson plans for the teaching of prairie life. Provides...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Angiosperms
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Angiosperms, in the phylum Anthophyta, are the most successful phylum of plants. Angiosperms evolved the structure of the flower, so they are also called the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Plant Kingdom: Angiosperms: Lesson 1
This lesson will explain the characteristics and function of angiosperm plants. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Plant Kingdom: Angiosperms."
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: How Plants Spice Up Our Lives
Students take apart and label basic parts of a plant in this lesson plan. The students also use kitchen spices to determine which part of a plant was used for various flavorings.
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: El Reino Vegetal
In this lesson you will learn to understand better the different plants in your environment, its characteristics and its presence in our daily lives. Learn how important the plants are for the survival of all ecosystems in the world and...