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Island Fox Outreach

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Off the coast of California lives a wild animal called the Island Fox. Experts discuss the importance of the Island Fox to the Channel Islands and the balance the fox creates within its ecosystem. The lesson concludes with a reading of...
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Archaeobotany

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Pupils study pictures of seeds and the conditions in which they grow during their study of archaeobotany. They infer ancient plant use by looking at archaeobotanical samples. They determine the change of plant use by interpreting a graph...
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A Garden in the Mailbox

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students study seed catalogs to find information about plants and growing seasons. They write letters requesting a seed catalog after using online resources. They use them complete an associated worksheet and discuss zone maps for their...
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Watermelon Math

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students compute the mean and median of the number of seeds in a watermelon. They work in groups with a slice of water to complete and compare their calculations. They get a class average and mean.
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Changing the Weather

For Students 9th - 12th
In this weather worksheet, students review human activities that alter the weather, especially cloud seeding experimentation. This worksheet has 8 short answer questions.
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Hairy Shamrocks

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students create shamrocks out of sponges. In this art lesson, students plant grass seeds in the sponges so that when the grass grows it looks like hair.
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What's Inside a Pumpkin

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students make two pumpkins. In this art lesson, students glue yarn and pumpkin seeds on one of the pumpkins and attach the other pumpkin on top of the pumpkin with the seeds with a brad so as to see what is inside a pumpkin.
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Spring Fling

For Teachers K
Students take part in a number of activities that center around a spring theme. They draw the steps to show process of growing seeds.
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Pumpkin Math

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this thematic Halloween math worksheet, students will use pumpkin seeds to complete the fourteen questions. Using the seeds, the students will work on addition and subtraction word problems, place value, and decipher odd and even...
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Water Conditions

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars investigate the importance of water in an environment with living things. in this water conditions lesson plan, students soak radish sees in water, vinegar, soap and alcohol. Young scholars remove the seeds, store them for...
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Plant Life Cycle

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this exploring the processes from seed to reproduction of a plant online interactive worksheet, students read a passage explaining the plant life cycle and answer multiple choice questions about what they read. Students choose 8 answers.
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Germination Inhibitors

For Students 7th - 9th
In germination experiment activity, students conduct the following lab activity. Students determine the effects of another tomato on germinating seeds. Students answer the following questions to analyze their experiment.
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Science As Inquiry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice problem solving through the inquiry approach. They are divided into small groups and given various problems to folve regarding the germination of radish seeds.
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Beans and Birds: A Natural Selection Simulation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students solve the following problem concerning the evolution of seed color in pinto bean plants: "How does natural selection change the frequency of genes or traits over many generations?" They use the constructivist approach to...
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Heredity Worksheet #2

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this genetics worksheet, students use a diagram showing the genetic offspring of plants with different types of seeds to answer 4 short answer questions. Then students determine the traits of offspring of different crosses in 1...
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EASY AS PUMPKIN PIE

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students demonstrate place values using pumpkin seeds as a math manipulative. They use manipulatives, models, known facts, properties and relationships to explain thinking processes. They estimate the number of seeds in their pumpkin.
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Nitrogen Fixation, OR What a Gas!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students gain skill in the design, implementation, and reporting of a scientific research project using the scientific method. They set up an experiment to determine the effect of adding the Rhizobium bacteria to one group of legume...
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Tops and Bottoms

For Teachers 1st
First graders classify vegetables by which parts are edible.  In this plant biology lesson, 1st graders are read Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens, participate in a discussion of which plant parts are edible in the story, then sort...
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Sunny Sunflowers

For Teachers 1st
First graders, after assessing how plants grow in relation to light, create models of sunflowers within a game to help them remember their science lesson. In addition, their visual models serve as a demonstration of photo tropism in...
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Building a Biome

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students investigate how plants grow in different biomes. In this biomes lesson plan, students plant sees of impatiens, lima beans and rye seeds in egg cartons. When the plants begin to grow they simulate the assigned biome conditions...
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Mole Relations

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders investigate the mole using raisins, sunflower seeds and M&Ms candy. In this mole relations lesson plan, 10th graders create trail mix packets using the food items given to them using "dozen" as the units. Students write...
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A Field of Beans

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Beans, or legumes as they are sometimes called, are the topic for an integrated multi-subject lesson. Youngsters will read, write, observe, and research everything there is to know about beans. They read a bean story, conduct a bean...
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Room to Grow

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine radish plants and compare how they grew based on how closely the seeds were sown. In this life science lesson, students pretend to be growing plants crowded together, then examine how the radishes look based on how much...
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Profit From Pumpkins

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders cut open a pumpkin. In this math activity, 3rd graders complete the worksheet "From Seed to Pumpkin" and then clean out their pumpkins to see how many seeds are in it.

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