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Tic Tac Plant Parts
This plant biology PowerPoint introduces plant parts and their functions. This PowerPoint allows students to identify each plant part on a diagram, along with its' function. The slides contain a clear explanation of how each plant part...
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Too Bee Or Not To Bee
Students recognize that bees are important in the reproduction of plants and to the survival of animals. In this bee lesson, students become familiar with the parts of bees and how those adaptations help them pollinate plants....
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Plants Reproduce and Grow in Various Ways
Third graders take a walk around the outside of the school and examine their clothing to see if they picked up any seeds while on their walk. They discuss how seeds travel and how a new plant thus can form. They then observe root...
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Botany: Rice Plant - Second Phase
Third graders make drawings that show the growth of the rice plant in the reproductive phase. In this rice plant lesson plan, 3rd graders read about the second phase of the rice plant, and then draw pictures and label them.
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Life Cycle of Brassica Plants: Planting Seeds
Students explore botany by participating in a calendar class activity. In this plant observation instructional activity, students examine a diagram of a Brassica plant and identify its anatomy before planting their own seeds and viewing...
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Lesson 3: Life Cycle of Brassica Plants
Young scholars investigate the life cycle of brassica plants. In this science lesson, students observe each stage in the life cycle of their plant. Young scholars record their observations and graph the data. Students
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.