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Science Experiment Using Lima Beans

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders tie together elements about the world and their environment. Students incorporate styles of higher order thinking skills. Students measure skills of observations, conclusions, inferences and predictions.
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Plant Diversity

For Students 5th - 6th
In this nonfiction comprehension worksheet, students read the selection on plant diversity and answer 10 questions that include true/false, short answer, multiple choice, and fill in the blank.
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Clearly Classified

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners investigate plants and insects.  In this science classification lesson, learners create separate categories for insects and plants by characteristics.  Learners discover scientific names of insects.
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Plants Vocabulary Decoder Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this plant vocabulary instructional activity, students match the letter of the plant vocabulary word to the number next to the definition. Students complete this for 15 words.
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Plants Letter Shapes

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this plant worksheet, students write plant vocabulary words into word shapes after reading their definitions. Students write 8 plant vocabulary words.
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Plants Quick Vocabulary Review Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this plants worksheet, students write the plant vocabulary word that is described by the given definition. Students write the words for 15 plant definitions.
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Baby Peanut Plants

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Science is a subject ripe with opportunities to read informational text. Kids read to learn about peanuts! They read an informational passage, fill out two comprehension worksheets, and then conduct a lab experiment on a peanut. The...
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Let's Sort a Salad

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students examine edible plants by identifying salad ingredients. In this botany lesson plan, students discuss the different vegetables that can be eaten in a salad and draw them on a worksheet. Students review vegetable vocabulary and...
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Life Cycle of Brassica Plants: Planting Seeds

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore botany by participating in a calendar class activity. In this plant observation lesson, students examine a diagram of a Brassica plant and identify its anatomy before planting their own seeds and viewing the changes over...
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Lesson 3: Life Cycle of Brassica Plants

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the life cycle of brassica plants. In this science lesson, students observe each stage in the life cycle of their plant. Students record their observations and graph the data. Students
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How Does Your Garden Grow?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners identify what plants need to grow. In 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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Dandelion Facts- Reading and Writing Worksheet Packet

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In this set of worksheets about dandelions, students read the definition and 10 pages of facts about the common weed. They look at pictures that are related to the facts.
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Word Problems

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this math problem solving instructional activity, students examine 6 word problems that require them to write multiplication sentences and draw pictures to solve each.
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Water Pollution and Food Chains

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders study the effect of pollution in our food chains. For this plant biology lesson, 6th graders first experiment with pollution by placing a carnation in colored water. Next they use a food chain triangle to see the...
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Gardening for Beauty, Food, and Enjoyment

For Teachers 1st
First graders create their own garden. In this plant lesson, 1st graders discover the essential elements for a plant to grow. They planted their own garden and read the amount of space needed and the sunlight preferred for each plant. 
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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.
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COMMON KINDS OF INSECTS

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars will recognize and name three common insects.1. Share background information with students. 2. Provide young scholars with the "bug body" puzzle pages, and have them cut the puzzles out.1. Share background information with...
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Pasta Triangles - A Triangle Inequality Activity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore, examine and experiment with pasta sticks to discover the triangle inequality principle. They assess if any three lines or segments fit together to form a triangle. Each student also completes a Triangle Recording Chart...
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Insect Vocabulary Quiz

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this insect vocabulary worksheet, students draw lines to match ten words pertaining to insect anatomy to their definitions.
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Vegetative Propagation Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students, in this project, successfully start new plants by various means of vegetative propagation.
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Nature Calendar

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice using reference materials to locate information by making a nature calendar.
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Plant Propagation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners successfully start a new plant by any means of vegetative propagation. They select a propagation method which is appropriate for the plant and keep a laboratory journal of the treatment and progress of the new plant.
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It's A Jungle Out There -Tempera

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore master paintings by Rousseau. They explain how the artist creates depth by overlapping images. They design and create an "imaginary" tropical landscape for a tempera painting.
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Dichotomous Key for Identifying Pine Trees

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers identify the species of pine trees that are found in their area. They use unlabeled "mystery" samples and a dichotomous key to identify the pine trees to species. After identification, they use a field guide to answer...