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Edible and Medicinal Plants: Field Trip Guide

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Though it's designed to guide a field trip to the New York Botanical Garden, you could take resource like this one to a local park, wilderness area, school garden, or even a weedy empty lot. Middle schoolers identify plant parts and...
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What Parts of a Plant Do We Eat?

For Students 8th - 12th
Did you know that tomtoes and cucumbers are actually fruits? Biology or botany beginners read about the function of flowers and fruit and find that some food items commonly called vegetables are, by definition, also fruits! Give learners...
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Plants and Animals

For Teachers K
Students taste test the garden. In this Science lesson, students compare and contrast plants and animals needs. Students pick fruits and vegetables in the garden and discuss their observations.
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Food, Food, And More Food From Plants!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners examine the edible parts of a plant and explore their function. They define what makes a fruit classified as a fruit. They create a sketch or map or photo of a 1930s farm and justify their plant selections.
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Yummy Plant Parts

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine plant parts. In this botany lesson, students examine various edible plants and how their adaptations help them to grow. They observe stems, leaves, roots and flowers of plants and discuss the relationship between...
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Showing Nature's Way-Plant Development and the Plant Parts We Eat

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore plant life. In this science lesson plan, students demonstrate and record the stages of plant growth and categorize food plants by identifying the edible part.
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Edible Bug Project

For Teachers K
Students recognize the characteristics of insects.  In this edible bugs lesson, students observe the body parts of an insect.  Students create an edible insect using a grape, carrot sticks and sorrel stems and leaves.  Students share the...
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Eat Your Plants

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore fruits and vegetables. In this fruits and vegetables lesson plan, students work in small groups investigating plant parts. Students discover that fruits and vegetables originate from different parts of plants.
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Plant Parts We Eat

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
I bet the kids in your class will love to eat their vegetables after an engaging lesson plan about edible plants. They read information about vegetables and edible plants, sort vocabulary words, identify plant parts, measure and graph...
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PLANT PARTS WE EAT

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students identify an assortment of vegetables and learn how to locate the parts humans use for food. Students identify the plant parts we eat. Students color the pictures on their worksheets as provided. Students match the plants to the...
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Plant Life for Kids

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these plant life worksheets, students complete a learning exercise about parts of a plant, plant life, plant life cycle sequence, and then complete a plant life mini book.
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Plants, Plants, and More Plants

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine several types of plants. In this plant lesson, students complete activities that require them to identify types of plants, chart plant anatomy, and explain plant propagation.
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Edible Wild Plants

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
Students explore the benefits of recognizing edible wild plants.  In this wild plant lesson, students collect, make ready and eat edible plants.  Students answer questions about the plants.
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Which Parts of a Plant Do We Eat?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars identify the different parts of a plant. In this biology lesson, students examine its internal parts by dissecting it. They report their findings in class.
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Edible Plants

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students determine what part of a plant they are eating when they eat different fruits and vegetables.
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Parts of the Plants that we Eat

For Teachers 1st
First graders study plants and their parts to see what parts are edible.  In this plant lesson students are assigned plant parts and they are to put them in the right category. 
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Coral Polyp Party

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students complete a project where they label the parts of a coral polyp and discuss the differences between plants and animals. Students use marshmallows, sprinkles, toothpicks, and more to label their coral polyp.
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Tutti Frutti

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Get some competition going in your life science class. Give lab groups a variety of plant parts, all of them fruits, except one. Their mission is to make observations, compare and contrast, in order to be the first to identify the...
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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 real...
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Edible Plants

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students determine what part of a plant they are eating when they eat different fruits and vegetables, and make collages of fruit and vegetable pictures that are flowers, fruits, leaves, roots, seeds, seed pods, stems and tubers.
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Edible Plant Parts

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students participate in various activities to discover the six basic types of plants. In groups, they analzye the foods they eat and identify which part they consume. After reading "The Fablous Food Phantom", they create a food phantom...
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Army Survival

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Intended as a reference tool for US Army personnel, this application can be used in a classroom that is studying historic and current wars or as part of an outdoor education or wilderness survival course. Some of the subjects addressed...
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We Eat Plant Parts

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this edible plants worksheet, students study several elements to a root, leaf, fruit, and stem of a plant. Students complete several questions and draw the different elements.
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From One Seed Grow Many Seeds

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice identifying plants by singing a song.  In this plant life instructional activity, 1st graders sing the song "Parts of a Plant" which is based on the anatomy of sunflowers.  Students discover agriculture techniques...