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Everybody Needs a Little Sunshine
Three activities introduce upper elementary ecologists to photosynthesis and food webs. In the first, an experiment is set up to determine how plants respond to different types of light. In the second, they connect organism cards with...
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
Young gardners read and listen to books about seeds, plants, and the growing process. They plant seeds in plastic cups to observe the process of root-growing and plant formation. The whole class walks through a field to collect seeds...
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Cell respiration
Three lab guides are given here that detail experiments to illustrate the oxidation of glucose for the production of ATP. The first will compare photosynthesis and respiratio and show theimporatnce of both to plants. The next will show...
Museum of Science
Egg Carton Nursery
Observe nature in action. Young biologists make plant nurseries from cardboard egg cartons. Once the seeds sprout, they move the flowering plants outside and make observations of bees that pollinate the flowers.
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Plant Life
In this plant worksheet, students will review plant classification by comparing plant characteristics. Students will determine what is needed for photosynthesis to occur. Students will also explore plant transpiration and the...
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Photosynthesis Summary
In this photosynthesis summary, 6th graders read the one page passage which contains vocabulary, definitions and a summary of the process, then answer 2 guided reading questions.
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What Should I Know About Photosynthesis
This four-page handout would work great as a reading guide or note-taking resource for teens learning about ATP, photosynthesis, the key scientists in the realm of photosynthesis, and more. It is designed to accompany a certain textbook,...
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Photosynthesis: An Overview
This photosynthesis quiz containing multiple-choice and short-answer questions challenges young biologists to extend their thinking beyond knowledge recall. There is one question referring to a certain page in the unidentified textbook,...
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Photosynthesis Study Guide
In this photosynthesis worksheet, students answer 18 questions in a combination of multiple choice and short answers including the completion of a table.
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Fall Colors: How the Forest Makes Energy
Read about the process of photosynthesis, and how plants use energy from sunlight to grow. The reading passage includes a photosynthesis diagram and focuses on changes in leaf color occurring in the fall.
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Links in a Food Chain
Little ones make costumes and act out a rhyme in which there are daisies, bugs, wrens, snakes, and foxes that all interact in a food web. This would be a memorable activity for primary life scientists to participate in as a wrap-up...
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Photosynthesis and Plant Reproduction
Learners explain the process of photosynthesis. In this biology lesson, students label the different reproductive parts of the flowers. They watch a short video then identify the leaf parts on the board.
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Everything Breathes!
Fifth graders test plants in the dark and in the light to see which grows better and produces more carbon dioxide. In this plants lesson plan, 5th graders also create ways for plants to go through photosynthesis that they can observe.
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Water, Water Everywhere
Students devise a system for watering classroom plants during school year and summer breaks. In this watering system instructional activity, students work in teams to investigate water needs of plants and develop systems that will keep...
K12 Reader
Xylem and Phloem
The vascular tissue found in plants is the subject of a two-part comprehension worksheet that asks kids to read the provided article and then to respond to a series of comprehension questions.
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Surface Area of a Leaf (Grades 7-9)
In this math and science worksheet, students read about the process of photosynthesis and plant growth. They determine how a plant's ability to create food is dependent on the surface area of its leaves using geometric calculations. They...
Science Matters
Post- Assessment: Transport Systems in Animals and Plants
A little bit of this and a little bit of that. The final lesson of the 21-part unit assesses learners on each animal and plant system. The test covers the basics of each system and focuses on key vocabulary from the unit.
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Living Systems Part III
Here is a fantastic, informative, interactive presentation on plant and animal cells. The PowerPoint is produced by an elementary school teacher who has a doctorate in science, and it shows! This would be a splendid presentation to use...
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How do plant & animal cells make and use energy?
Students show the relationship between the need for plants to undergo photosynthesis in order to generate oxygen. They see the flaws associated with this thinking because of the lack of CO2 and H2O and lack of sufficient gravity in order...
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Plants in Motion
In this plants worksheet, learners watch movies about plant growth and then answer multiple choice and short answer questions about them. Students answer 6 questions total.
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Chlorophyll
Students explain the importance of chlorophyll in plants. In this biology lesson, students extract chlorophyll from different plant sources using chromatography. They discover the different factors needed for photosynthesis to take place.
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Photosynthesis
In this photosynthesis instructional activity, students are given a diagram of photosynthesis and words that correlate with the process. They use the words to fill in the blanks about the process and the structures involved in...
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Photosynthesis: How do plants make food?
Students study why plants are green and how water is transported in them. They examine how plants respond to different amounts of light.
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Plants Vocabulary Quiz
In this plant vocabulary worksheet, learners draw lines to match 10 plant words with their meanings. Prior knowledge is assumed.