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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Tree Mendous Plots [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
To teach students how to use collect and use real-life data, use this lesson to create, populate and analyze graphs to interpret data related to the growth of plants from seeds. The lesson then asks students to create a story about the...
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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
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Gunnison's Prairie Dog

For Students 4th - 8th
In the spring, when Gunnison's prairie dogs emerge from hibernation, they eat new, green plants. Later in the summer, as plants begin to turn brown and dry out, they concentrate on flowers and seeds. Learn more about the Cynomys...