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Rainforest Vocabulary Words: Week 1
In these rainforest vocabulary worksheets, read the definitions and the matching terms for the following rainforest vocabulary terms: decomposers, deforestation, epiphytes, extinct, environment, pollute, vegetation, ecology, climate,...
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Rice
Third graders develop a creative art project. In this rice instructional activity, 3rd graders learn about rice, when and how it is harvested, and how it is stored. Students make rainbow rice and use it to create other art projects.
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Observing Plants Through a Journal
First graders observe a plant, write about it, and illustrate their writing in a journal.
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Relationships and Biodiversity
Students examine diversity on the planet and the differences within a species. In this investigative lesson students complete a lab that allows students to better understand the relatedness between plants.
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Lets Think About...Plants
Students bring in various vegetables and make friendship soup. They plant seeds and discuss the things plants need to grow and thrive.
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Plants
First graders learn the basic needs of plants, label the major parts of a plant and name their uses. They also use a KWL chart.
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Plants
Second graders examine the characteristics of plants. As a class, they brainstorm a list of items plants need in order to survive. In groups, they complete various experiments in which they discover the functions of the parts of the plant.
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Science: Putting Down Roots
Fourth graders, in small groups, observe plants and note their characteristics. After drawing pictures of the plants, including their roots systems, they hypothesize in which environments the plants would best thrive. Finally, 4th...
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Explorit's Garden Quiz: How Does Your Garden Grow?
In this plants worksheet, students complete a 6 question multiple choice quiz about gardening, plants and agriculture. This is an online interactive worksheet.
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Making a Human Tree
Learners explore botany by defining the anatomy of a tree. In this environmental exploration activity, students research plant vocabulary terms and discuss the uses of each word. Learners create a "human" tree by role-playing as one of...
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Desert Dynamics
Students investigate the plants and animals found in Utah deserts and how these organisms have adapted to their environment. They brainstorm ways that desert plants are different from or similar to wetland plants.
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Desert Dynamics
Fourth graders examine the various types of plants and animals found in the deserts of Utah. In groups, they discover how the plants and animals have adapted to the harsh environment. To end the lesson, they compare and contrast the...
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PLANTS LOVE AIR
Pupils identify that plants cannot develop adequately without air and predict what happens to the leaf of a geranium brought to class. They draw a picture of what they think the leaf will look like after a week of being covered. Finally,...
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POWERFUL POTATO
Students will observe the growth process of a potato plant.Plant a potato in a large clay pot or gallon bucket. You may purchase seed potatoes
from a seed outlet in early spring or use a potato from home that has started to sprout. Make...
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Wheat: Ancient and Ageless
Students label the parts of a wheat plant on a worksheet. In this Egyptian farming lesson, students thresh a wheat stem and estimate the amount harvested. Students research Ancient Egypt online.
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Sunlight Necklaces
Third graders review the placement and role of the sun in the solar system. Using beads, they create a necklace which they can use to identify the amount of sunlight is being illuminated. In groups, they record observations on the...
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Explorit's Biology Quiz
For this biology worksheet, students complete a five question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about animal and plant biology.
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Terrariums for Project Pals
Students identify the components needed by plants to survive in the terrarium. For this biology lesson, students build their own terrariums using materials available. They present their project in class.
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Pollen Tracks
Students participate in an artificial dig investigating imitiation rock samples that contain "pollen" from ancient plants. Students determine which plants the pollen samples came from.
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Plant Life Cycles
Plant life cycles are the focus of a life science worksheet that is designed as a reading comprehension exercise. Readers respond to five questions based on the passage.
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Whose Home Is This?
After reading a short and informative paragraph on animals and their environments, learners look at pictures of four animals, and write a short description of how each one has adapted to its environment. A suggested activity is that each...
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What's This? Feeding
Some species have pretty creative methods for catching food. Young scientists learn about some interesting ways organisms get the nutrients they need by navigating an online interactive lesson that would be suitable for a remote learning...
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Plants from Trash
Students observe how plants recycle themselves, and discuss different types of propagation.
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Functions of Leaves
The title is a little deceiving since only one of 17 slides is dedicated to the function of leaves, while the rest is dedicated to the structure. Both internal and external structure is taught with accompanying diagrams. If you are going...