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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Classify the Trees/leaves

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students go outside to look for trees and gather leaves. Working cooperatively they will sort and try to classify the trees by the characteristics of their leaves.
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eBook
Estrella Mountain Community College

Online Biology Book: Biological Diversity: Seed Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth reference explaining the role of seed plants in biological diversity. Photographs and labeled diagrams help learners with understanding.
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Website
Estrella Mountain Community College

Online Biology Book: Biodiversity: Nonvascular & Nonseed Vascular Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographs, informative tables, and illustrated diagrams help explain the diversity of the plant kingdom in this college-level textbook.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Plant Classification

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Compares nonvascular and vascular plants.
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Lesson Plan
Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Making Community Measurements: Biotic Factors [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
A lesson plan in which students explore plant communities and observe and classify different types of vegetation. Includes discussion questions, extension activities and web links, a vocabulary glossary, and handouts.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Kind of Plant Is It?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson provides a fun way for students to learn to classify plants as vascular and nonvascular. Students will use drawing software to create pictures of vascular and nonvascular plants.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Circles of Life

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is an inquiry based cooperative learning unit that can be used in biology as a graduation exam review or in botany for a nine week project. The learners will learn the life cycle of mosses, ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms. The...
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Lesson Plan
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Lesson: Plant Investigations

For Teachers 4th
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...
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Plant Kingdom Study Guide

For Students 4th - 9th
Explore the diversity and taxonomy of the plant kingdom.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: First Grade Collecting Leaves With the Book Leaf Man

For Teachers K - 1st
In this environmental science activity, students go on a leaf walk and collect different types of leaves, and then brainstorm characteristics of their leaves then classify them.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Plant Classification

For Teachers 5th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews how plants are classified by showing pictures and examples of the different classifications. Students have a chance to demonstrate their understanding using Activote questions.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Plant Classification

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Do all plants grow from seeds? No, there are actually a few plants that do not make seeds. Whether or not a plant makes seeds is one criteria used to classify...
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Handout
The Franklin Institute

The Franklin Institute: Living Things Families

For Students 9th - 10th
What do centipedes and crabs have in common? What's so special about a backbone? Check this site out from The Franklin Institute if you are interested in biology and classification.