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Curated OER

Plants

For Teachers K
Students review the needs of animals, hypothesize the needs of plants, and set up experiments to test hypotheses.
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Curated OER

An Opening Time Line Project

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create a time line of their life starting at birth and each year after that up to their current age. They write and illustrate one important thing for each year, and place their time lines on poster board.
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Curated OER

Putting Together History Puzzle Pieces

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students attempt to put puzzle pieces together with no prior knowledge. This activity shows students at the beginning of the year that history is like a puzzle, there are often missing pieces, and many ways the pieces can turn to look...
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Curated OER

Let's Think About... Change

For Teachers K
Students observe various examples of "change." They mix paint to cereate new colors, eat bread and then toasted bread, and match baby pictures with pictures of how the same people look in the present. Finally, they watch a bouquet of...
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Curated OER

Plant Journal

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students measure the daily growth of plants in this technology-based science instructional activity that uses Timeliner to record student data. The instructional activity allows students practice at basic computer skills (typing/data...
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Curated OER

Frame Animation

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine the idea that an object might never have a "fixed" existence and may be a thing existing always in flux by creating a frame-based animation of something that transforms from one shape into another. They create...
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Curated OER

Bat Habitat

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders engage in a lesson to find the role of bats in the complexity of certain ecosystems. They identify where bats live and the daily role played in the ecosystem. Students also construct a bat house to help control the...
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Curated OER

Winer Survival

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students study how animals need water, food, shelter, and space to survive. They also study what animals need to survive in the winter. They play the part of animals and winter "threats" in a game of tag to reinforce concepts.
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Curated OER

This Is Tree-rific!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders view a clip of the video Backyard Safari, "Trees," and portray the life cycle of a tree. They also view a clip on structures of a tree and draw a diagram of a tree in their science journals.
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Curated OER

Vegetable Twister

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students review vegetables and their nutrient values and production. In this vegetable production worksheet, students read information about the nutrients in vegetables and how they are grown. Students participate in a game of Twister to...
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Curated OER

Crickets on the Hearth

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate how crickets behave in cold temperatures. In this life science lesson, students explain the beneficial and harmful effect of pests. They research ways to properly manage them.
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Children's Museum

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Growing a Grass Head

For Teachers K - 1st
Students learn about germination, or the process by which an organism grows from a seed and witness how seeds use sun, water, and soil to turn into a fascinating head of grass.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: From Seed to Plant

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will use the illustrations and details in the text to describe how plants grow. This lesson uses a complex text to allow students to analyze the pictures in From Seed to Plant and From Seed to Pumpkin. Included are videos and...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade K: From Seed to Plant

For Teachers K Standards
Students gather information from a variety of texts- literary and informational- to describe the connection between people, events, ideas, and pieces of information. Students are introduced to life cycles by learning about how a plant...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Growing Lima Beans: Do We Really Need Dirt?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate different growth mediums for a lima bean seed: a wet paper towel and a paper cup with soil.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: From Seeds to Plants

For Teachers K - 1st
In this primary unit on plants, students use observational skills to compare and discuss the changes in plants. They identify plant parts, where seeds come from, and how they grow.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Plant Science Inquiry: From Seed to Flower

For Teachers K - 1st
After planting three flower seeds (same variety), learners will observe changes and note details about how they grow by keeping a log book to record these changes over a period of 8-10 weeks.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Seeds to Plants: How to Grow a Plant

For Teachers K - 1st
An experiment where first-graders plant seeds and monitor their growth. Prior to planting, they decide on an inquiry question, and how they will find out the answer through the experiment.
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HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Kick Off Seed Explorations

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This simple lesson plan is designed to have young students become more familiar with fruit seeds by identifying fruit that contains seeds/no seeds, gathering seeds from fruit, explaining the importance of seeds, explaining that seeds...
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HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Planting Seeds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This simple lesson plan is designed to help young students be aware of how seeds sprout, and that seeds grow into plants.
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Science & Plants for Schools

Science & Plants for Schools: Teaching Resources

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A collection of teaching resources to help students explore plants! Resources investigate anatomy of plants, reproduction and life cycles, fruits, seeds, classification, photosynthesis, factors that affect plant growth, and respiration....
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University of Florida

Florida Museum of Natural History: Plant Life

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This teacher's guide focuses on the fascinating world of plants. Through books and other print materials, and exploration of actual plants, children will identify plants as living things, examine the parts of plants, experiment with what...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Seeds: How They Grow

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The students will be collecting, germinating and planting seeds to show the process of plant growth. The students will be recording the information in their science journal. In addition, the students will be observing the water cycle as...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Sprouting Scientists!

For Teachers 1st
Observe and describe plants as they grow from seeds.

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