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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Seed Racer

For Students K - 1st
Help Plum collect all the different kinds of seeds before time runs out. Fun, interactive game shows how different seeds propagate. Look out for those crows!
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Mountain Scramble

For Students 2nd - 4th
Build a mountain ecosystem by adding appropriate plants and animals, and by keeping the ecosystem in balance. Be sure every species has enough to eat to survive.
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Website
Other

Importance of Plants and Plant Communities

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover why plants are extremely important to humans. Resource provides an explanation of the important things they provide.
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: First Grade Science: Why Do I Look Like I Do?

For Students 1st
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the differences in the physical body parts of different animals.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Life Science: Introduction to Plants

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses plants, their needs, and their importance, and describes the structure and function of roots, stems, and leaves.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science: Life Science: The Importance of Plants

For Students 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses plants, their needs, and their importance. The structure and function of roots, stems, and leaves are covered as well.
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Lesson Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Needs of Plants

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Each student will make his/her own mini-garden and will observe the growth and development of radishes. To help students learn about requirements for plant growth, the teacher will make four experimental gardens and place them in...
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Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: All About Seeds

For Students 1st - 4th
This lesson focuses on seeds and the plants they grow into. It includes kinds and sizes of seeds, pollination of plants, plant parts, how seeds travel, and what plants need to grow.
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Website
Other

Botanical Garden at Gottingen

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information on the Botanical Garden at Gottingen University located in Germany. If you click on the sub-heading "Subjects and History",an English text will come up presenting further details on the garden.
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Primary
Other

Horticultural Worker I

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about what horticultural workers do and the skills that are required to perform this work.
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Website
Native American Art and Technology

Native Tech: Native American Technology and Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Informational site discusses the technology of Native American crafts and the meaning of those crafts. Touches on everything from pottery to clothing.
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Website
Other

Andean Botanical Information System

For Students 9th - 10th
Great research from the Andean Botanical Information System into the diverse environments and plants of the Andean region of South America, and particularly Chile and Peru. Available in Spanish or English, photographs and written...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Jonathan Driori: The Beautiful Tricks of Flowers

For Students 9th - 10th
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]
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Website
Other

The Rspb: A to Z of a Wildlife Garden

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the steps to making a good wildlife garden that attracts all types of wildlife.
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Activity
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Jack's Beans

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this lesson, the classic story of Jack and the Bean Stalk will spark an interest in plants with students. Students will explore the Internet, take a nature walk, and make observations to learn more about plants. A brochure will...
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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: Plants Are Survivors!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
All plants have basic life requirements. Understanding these requirements as well as plant structure helps explain why plants prefer some locations over others. This project allows students to work in cooperative groups to explore the...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Picture This!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan involves capturing pictures and identifying monocots and dicots. Students will take pictures of plants and tell whether and why they are monocots or dicots. They will site characteristics of monocots and dicots to...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Little River Canyon's Carnivorous Green Pitcher Plants

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A digital slide program introduces the Green Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia oreophila) to the students. Students use a model of the Green Pitcher Plant and plastic insects to role play. They will tell the story of habitat adaptation and...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Touch and Feel: Plant Adaptations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This introductory instructional activity centers on getting hands-on before getting drug into the vocabulary and nomenclature. In cooperative learning groups students will describe leaves in simple terms. Then, students will use various...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Race for Life: Plant Adaptations

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
This is an outdoors, hands-on activity. Create a short race course to engage students in physical activity while drawing comparisons to the plant kingdom. This activity serves as an introductory to the impact small changes can have on...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Plants, Pigments and Colors

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this hands-on, inquiry based lesson students will see the role of pigments in the in the process of photosynthesis. Students will use the process of chromatography to separate plant pigments. Students will then see the function of...
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Activity
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Promise of a Seed

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson, students will plant seeds, record the changes, and connect the relationship of seeds to plants. This lesson should be taught at the beginning of plant unit.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Amazing Antigravity Stem

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson consists of an experiment which will demonstrate how a plant uses its stem to carry water and minerals from the roots to the leaves and other parts of the plant. Students will then use their word processing skills to record...