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Look At Those Leaves
Students observe leaves. In this plant biology instructional activity, students examine leaves and classify them according to size, shape, and color. Students learn more about the leaves by visiting suggested websites.
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Sorting Flower Leaves With Keys
In this sorting flower leaves worksheet, students sort flower leaves with a key that involves the following phrases: five leaflets, three leaflets, heart-shaped, compound, simple and hand-shaped. Students sort 4 different types of...
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Look at Those Leaves!
Students observe and sort tree leaves. In this plant biology lesson, students observe various types of leaves and identify the characteristics of each leaf. Students measure and sort leaves according to size and color.
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Look At Those Leaves!
Students sort tree leaves. In this plant biology lesson, students collect leaves and group them according to size, shape, and color. Students discuss their observations.
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Look at those Leaves!
Students observe and measure tree leaves. In this leaf lesson students do on a "leaf walk" then use the leaves they find to complete a few activities.
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Tracing Leaves
In this tracing worksheet, students practice tracing and retracing 3 different sized leaves on the worksheet. Students check over their tracings.
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Life, Death, Dirt, & Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman was a composter? Certainly the cycle of life and death he describes in "Leaves of Grass" parallels the processes going on in a compose pile. The interdisciplinary approach detailed here could be used to foster a deeper...
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Color Change in Leaves
Students identify the different leaf pigments and colors. In this biology lesson, students perform chromatography to separate them. They explain how light affects green leaf colors and causes falling leaves in autumn.
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Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas
In this primary source analysis worksheet, students analyze an image of workers leaving the Pennsylvania shipyards in Texas. Students respond to 1 short answer question based on the provided source.
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Growing Lemons & Counting Numbers
Have your young gardeners practice their counting with a lemon tree that's missing its lemons and a flower that's missing its leaves. Included are the two plants and a set of 10 lemons, 10 leaves, and 10 numbers. See the materials tab...
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Leaf Dances
Students spend time on their school grounds collecting different types of leaves. Using the leaf, they take watercolors and paint one side and make leaf prints on their paper. To end the lesson, they hang their pictures on the wall to...
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Leafy Gold Jewelry
Students work together to collect a variety of leaves from their school grounds. Using clay, they shape it to form a mold of the leaf and paint it a gold color after it has dried. To end the lesson, they attach a string to make a necklace.
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Learning From Leaves: Adaptations To Differing Light Levels
Young scholars, in groups, examine plants with different light levels. They are given plants from a tropical and desert region. They write a hypothesis at the beginning of the experiment.
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Many Reasons To Leave
Students read a variety of narratives from fugitive slaves, discuss the many reasons slaves had to leave and what dangers they faced when living as a fugitive. They write and present a fictional narrative incorporating their observations.
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Counting Leaves
In this math worksheet, learners draw a line to match numerical numbers to their corresponding number of leaves. The numbers range from one to five.
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The Plant Food Factory
Plants need sun and water to survive. Let kids discover these facts by reading a block of informational text and considering a scientific quandary. They read the text, then use the information to complete a two-part question about plant...
Alabama Wildlife Federation
Leaf Creatures
The structure of a leaf reveals a lot about the plant it comes from. Young scholars collect and prepare leaves for comparison. After pressing the leaves, they identify the different parts and then use the leaves to complete an art project.
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Yellow Days: Studying Vincent van Gogh's Painting
Students examine the painting, "Sunflowers," by Vincent van Gogh noting the use of the yellow color, the wiggly lines, and the "globs" of paint used to create the picture. Pictures are painted using van Gogh's image as a model.
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Foliage Tracker
Young scholars discuss the change of leaf colors and the role that climate and elevation play in those changes. They then track leaf changes, input data, and graph foliage changes with a free online tool.
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It Counts
Students classify and compare plants using specific information, observations, and numbers. In this mathematical inquiry lesson, students use plant characteristics to describe, compare, and classify them. They attempt to develop a system...
Learing A-Z
Color Your World
Do your pupils know all the colors of autumn leaves? This packet of autumn-themed materials will help your kids fall right into knowledge of colors. Pupils practice making patterns, identifying and writing color words, coloring and...
Chicago Botanic Garden
Leaf Litter Ecology Lab
Some organisms spend their entire lives in leaf litter. The third in a series of six is a great lesson exploring the community of leaf litter. Groups gather and then spread leaf litter over white paper and remove leaves/twigs while...
Science Matters
Celery Lab
See firsthand the work plants do to move nutrients through their systems with a lesson that demonstrates the role of the xylem and phloem in plants. Young scientists observe celery move colored water through its stem to the leaves and...
Radford University
Is Fall Normal?
Fine the normality of fall measurements. Pairs collect measurements of fall leaves and one other fall object. Using the measurements, the groups determine the descriptive statistics for the object and using the Empirical Rule, figure out...
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