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Plants
In this plants activity, students review the alternation of generations in plants and the function of seeds and flowers for plants. This activity has 11 short answer questions and 4 fill in the blank questions.
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How Do Plant Life Cycles Vary?
In this plant life cycle worksheet, students will complete this graphic organizer by writing in the 3 steps in a plant life cycle.
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How Do Plants Meet Their Needs?
For this plants worksheet, students will compare and contrast the purpose of the flower, fruit, and seeds of a plant. Students will fill in the blank of 5 statements in this graphic organizer.
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Parts of a Plant
In this plant parts worksheet, students will write down the 5 things that make up a plant. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.
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What Are Plant Life Cycles?
In this plant life cycles worksheet, students will write in the main idea of the life cycle of a flowering plant. Then students will write in 3 supporting details.
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Flower
In this coloring worksheet, students cut out picture of a flower. Students may color in the illustration and add their own details.
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PLANT PARTS WE EAT
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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Growing Flower and Vegetable Transplants From Seeds
Students grow flower and vegetable transplants from seed in the school greenhouse. They properly plant seeds, transplant
seedlings, and care for the plants by using recommended culture methods. In addition, they identify the various...
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Life cycles
Students identify and explain the parts of a flower and their role in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed dispersal and germination using the Internet. Students will also study and discuss the key points and...
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Parts of a Plant Lesson
Students, after reading about the parts of a plant, identify each part and describe its function.
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Plant Reproduction
Students identify the different parts and function of a flower's reproductive system. In this biology lesson, students explain how pollination works. They watch a video and practice labeling parts of both flower and leaf.
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All About Plants
Pupils identify plant needs. In this biology lesson, students watch All About Plants and then write a paragraph describing the various details about plants.
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Springtime Party Favors
Students plant a flower in a keepsake pot. In this art lesson students each plant a seed in a small pot. The students take their pot with the planted seed home.
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Tally Marks
In this tally marks worksheet, students identify and complete 10 different boxes by identifying various objects. First, they count the number of each object illustrate on the right. Then, they write the tally marks for the number in the...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Investigation: Dissect a Flower [Pdf]
A lab activity where students carefully dissect a flower and learn about its different parts. Materials may require sharp dissection instruments. Includes extension activities and test preparation questions.
Ohio State University
Ohio State University: Plant Part Glossary
A useful resource for working with plants. Many illustrations enhance the clarity of the definitions, which can be accessed by clicking on the various links provided.
Other
Kansas Wildflower and Grasses
A list of Kansas Wildflowers and Grasses. Includes photos and information.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Department of Botany
Visit the Smithsonian's Department of Botany, and search online from the specimen collection of nearly 800,000 plant specimen records. In addition, learn about research being conducted, activities and events hosted by the department,...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Who Loves Flowers?
A storybook about the beauty of flowers. Includes audio narration in English, Spanish, and Turkish with text in English.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Investigation: Pollen Collection [Pdf]
After learning about what pollen is, its health effects, as well as how it benefits humans, students take part in a lab activity. For this, they collect schoolyard pollen on slides, stain it, and then examine it under a microscope.
Globio
Glossopedia: Plants
Plants are one of the two major Kingdoms of living creatures on the Earth. They are the only beings which produce their own food. Additionally, plants are necessary for animals to live. Plant anatomy, life cycle, reproduction and the...
Biology Pages
Kimball's Biology Pages: Sexual Reproduction in Angiosperms (Flowering Plants)
This site, from retired Harvard professor John W. Kimball, provides a detailed but understandable explanation of sexual reproduction in flowering plants. Includes informative, well labelled illustrations.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Biology:plant Reproduction Post Test
Students take this six question post test over the topic of plant reproduction, and then check their accuracy after they submit the quiz.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Biology: Plant Reproduction Pretest
Students can take this six question pretest over the topic of plant reproduction, and then check their accuracy after they submit the quiz.