+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Transportation in Plants

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate how plants transport water and nutrients through the plant. In this transportation in plants lesson plan, students use glass tubing, celery stalks, food coloring and leaves from plants to observe adhesion and...
+
Handout
Curated OER

First Land Plants Found on Earth

For Students 8th - 10th
In this first land plants worksheet, students read about the major events that allowed plants to evolve on Earth. Students read about the primary and secondary atmospheres, the formation of the ozone layer to protect from UV light and...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Elevation, Plants and Animals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students determine whether elevation is one of the things that affect where and how plants and animals live. They read plant and animal physical descriptions and determine the environment where the animal might live.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Effects of Light and Temperature on the Growth and Development of Plants

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the effects of light and temperature on plant growth and development. For this plant growth lesson plan, students use radish plants and cover them with different shades of green and red transparencies and observe...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Water filtration with Plants

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explain how soil and plants effect contaminated water in nature.  In this filtration lesson, 6th graders work in groups to test biofiltration units. Students determine which biofiltration units work best and how they can...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What's Wrong with the Plants?: Biology

For Teachers All
Students will initially describe differences between plants which seem healthy and those which appear unhealthy. They will examine the plants and use various techniques to attempt to identify what is causing the unhealthy symptoms. As a...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Seeds, Miraculous Seed

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate relationships between plants and animals and how living things change during their lives. In this life cycle lesson, students split different types of seeds apart to see the beginning life stages of future plants.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Planting

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study the parts of a plant and how they live and grow. In this plant growth lesson plan, 5th graders investigate the processes that plants go through to produce oxygen and release moisture. Diagrams, images, and background...
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Plants Vocabulary Maze

For Students 4th - 6th
In this maze worksheet, students read the clues, spell the words in order, and navigate through the maze from start to the red letter s. Students solve 15 clues.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Fun with Plants: Unscrabmle the Plant Names

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this recognizing the names of flowers and vegetables activity, students choose a resource to help them unscramble the names of plants. Students write 14 short answers.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Decaying Pumpkins

For Teachers 1st
First graders discover life and death even in vegetables as they examine a dead pumpkin.  In this plant life lesson plan, 1st graders collect pumpkins after Halloween and examine the differences between a fresh pumpkin and a very old,...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Floor Sculptures

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore visual arts by completing a recycling activity. In this botany science lesson, students examine the natural layout of plants in a garden environment. Students utilize wire, wood and other arts and craft materials to...
+
PPT
Curated OER

Plant Life Cycle: Quiz Game

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Play the game, Who Wants to be a Millionaire? to review plant parts, life cycle, and pollination. There are 10 questions that get kids thinking about seeds, seed dispersal, pollination, and plant parts. This game is has audio and looks...
+
Lesson Plan
Mixing In Math

Mixing in Math: Growing Plants

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
Whether you have your class plant seeds or begin when sprouts are visible, math skills are used here to predict and track growth over time. Straw bar graphs show plant height on a given day while the graph as a whole shows changes over...
+
PPT
Curated OER

Tops and Bottoms

For Teachers 2nd
While the graphics are enticing, this presentation could be enhanced for use as part of a lesson on plants. The resource groups common foods into those that could be considered the tops or the bottom. For example, a mushroom is a part of...
+
PPT
Curated OER

Plants

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Really only five slides of information, this resource is an outline on planting field crops. From it, aspiring agriculturists are exposed to different seeding methods: drilling, row crop planting, broadcast seeding, and air seeding. This...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Investigating Plants

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students access previous knowledge of plants. In this plant lesson, students photograph plants on a class walk or nature center. Students upload photos and discuss plant types. Students write about how the plants originated.
+
Organizer
Curated OER

Plant Life In Action

For Students 4th - 5th
Int his plant worksheet, students folllow the given directions to create an experiment.  Students then answer 5 short answer questions and complete the given data table with results for two weeks.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Word Search: Common Seashore Plants

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this science worksheet, students find the names of 15 plant species common to the seashore in a word search puzzle. The word bank has detailed color drawings of each plant.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Plant Life

For Students 9th - 12th
In this plant learning exercise, 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...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Plant Life

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine different categories of plant life and their roles as producers of food and oxygen for other organisms. They study the evolution of plants from simple organisms to very complex ones. They look at the different...
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Plants: Form and Function

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
For this plants worksheet, students compare and contrast vascular and non-vascular plants. Students learn the structure and function of the 3 types of plant tissues: dermal, ground, and vascular tissue. This worksheet has 27 fill in the...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Motte Rimrock Reserve: Lesson Plan for Flora

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students study the flora of Motte Rimrock Reserve while observing organisms in their natural environment. They use a dichotomous key to identify plants.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Growing Jack and the Beanstalk Plants

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate how plants grow by growing their own "beanstalk", (after reading "Jack and the Beanstalk") and record their observations daily in a science journal.

Other popular searches