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Mixing in Math: Growing Plants

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
Whether you have your class plant seeds or begin when sprouts are visible, math skills are used here to predict and track growth over time. Straw bar graphs show plant height on a given day while the graph as a whole shows changes over...
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Seed Swapping

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Here is a fabulous, cross-curicular lesson on seeds. Elements of science, writing, math, agricultural practices, and art are all brought into this incredibly thorough plan. Additionally, a fun whole-class game is presented, and there is...
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Finding, Gathering, Saving Seeds

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students understand the importance of saving seeds. For this saving seeds lesson, students dry out seeds for later use planting. Students recognize that one plant may have many seeds.
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What's Growing? Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 6th
Students study the life cycle of plants by growing a seed in a paper cup. They record observations of the changes they see. When the plant sprouts, they plant it in soil in a paper cup. Next, they continue to draw and date their...
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Plants Alive! How Plants Grow and Move

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students explore how plants move in response to the environment. For this plant lesson, students engage in three different experiments to investigate how plants grow and move. Resources available in English and French.
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Growing a Lawn

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students research plant growth. For this plant growth lesson, students explore the needs of plants. Students compare and contrast grass and broadleaf plants and grow a miniature lawn in a cup of soil. Resources are provided.
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Nuts for Peanuts: Peanut Plants, Peanut Timeline, and Peanut-s-timation!

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students complete a timeline. In this peanuts lesson plan, students read A Short Peanut History and use this resource to make a timeline of the history of the peanut. Students can grow peanuts in the classroom or make various peanut...
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Growing Shamrocks!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students discover Irish heritage by planting seeds.  In this botany lesson, students utilize a shamrock cookie cutter to create a form which they can grow alfalfa inside.  Students observe the plant growing over the next few...
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My Little Seed House

For Teachers 1st
First graders read a story. In this seeds lesson plan, 1st graders read The Tiny Seed and make their own seed house. Students write down their observations and complete a worksheet.
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Do They Grow Up or Down?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students keep a garden journal after planting a garden and discuss environmental stresses put upon the garden for growth. In this garden lesson plan, students plant the plants differently from one another and observe the outcomes.
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Look at Those Seeds Grow!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore plant science by participating in a botany activity. In this seed growth lesson, students identify the necessary elements to ensure a plant grows well and prepare seeds for planting. Students plant their soaked seeds in...
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PLANT LIFE CYCLES

For Teachers K - 5th
Student learns about the life cycle of plants by watching a time-lapse video. This activity provides students with further evidence that all living things grow and change as they progress through their life cycle. Student conducts a...
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Seed Types

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students dissect seeds. In this seed dissection lesson, students discover the anatomy of seeds. After dissecting seeds, students hypothesize and design the perfect seed to survive in a dry forest.
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Let Us Grow Lettuce!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students identify the stages of plant growth. In this plant lesson plan, students plant lettuce seed and take photos of the growth throughout a two week period.
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Garbage Plants

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create plants out of garbage. They identify items that can be recycled and discuss natural resources. They share their creation with the class.
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Growing a Native American "Three Sisters" Garden

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore plant life by creating their own gardens in class. In this food growing lesson plan, students discuss the types of gardening methods Native Americans used in order to keep healthy. Young scholars plant corn seeds...
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How Does Your Garden Grow?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners identify what plants need to grow. For this plant biology lesson, students analyze the differences between an artificial plant and a live plant. Learners plant seeds and discuss what plants need to grow. Students observe the...
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How a Seed Grows and Who Grows It

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore biology by viewing PowerPoint presentations in class. In this plant life instructional activity, 1st graders identify the life cycle of a plant and how to properly plant a seed outside. Students view a movie about...
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What is the Function of Each Seed Part in the Growth of a Plant

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate the parts of a seed by using a digital camera.  In this botany lesson, 6th graders plant their own seeds in class and demonstrate the necessary attributes for growing a plant.  Students utilize a...
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How Does Your Garden Grow?

For Teachers 2nd
Students complete activities to learn about the life cycle of a seed. In this plant growth lesson, students complete activities for the life cycles of seeds.
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Sorting Things Out

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Written to examine seeds that grow in Kansas, you can adapt this lesson plan to anywhere you live. Learners sort a mixture of five different seeds to by any characteristic of their choice. When your budding scientists are exploring the...
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Crops 2: What Plants Need to Grow

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners explore agriculture by participating in a plant growth activity. In this botany lesson, students discuss what types of plants grow in their local environment and what the plants need to survive. Learners read assigned text about...
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Growing Pains

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students compare common food items with the parts of a plant. They grow their own plants to assess the difficulties in assisting a plant's growth and reproduction.
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A Planting We Will Go

For Teachers K - 2nd
Even the youngest kids can make scientific comparisons using collected data. They read The Tiny Seed, then discuss the essential nutrients and elements needed for a seed to grow into a blooming plant. They plant seeds and track their...

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