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Seeds of Wetland Life
Students participate in several activities on seed exploration. In this biology lesson, students classify seeds according to their dispersal method. They explain the different adaptations plant have to disperse their seeds.
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Seed Germination Experiments
Young scholars plant seeds. In this seed germination experiment, students conduct an experiment where seeds can be observed and their growth documented. Young scholars can also view a virtual web germination to record data. This lesson...
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Fun with Plants Flower Power
Students understand the parts of the flower. In this flower lesson, students perform experiments to see where seeds come from. Students complete a data sheet about the experiment. Students understand the terms pistil and stamen.
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My Little Seed House
First graders read a story. In this seeds lesson, 1st graders read The Tiny Seed and make their own seed house. Students write down their observations and complete a worksheet.
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Traveling Seeds
Students decorate their bags with crayons. In this art and science lesson, students go outside and collect seeds. Students come back inside and sort the seeds into flyers, riders, poppers, or floaters. Students discuss the differences...
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Mixing in Math: Growing Plants
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...
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Seed Plants: Angiosperms
Middle schoolers describe flowering plants and see why angiosperms are the most successful plants. In this angiosperms instructional activity students identify angiosperms and explain how they reproduce.
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Fun With Plants: Can You Find?
In this plants instructional activity, students find plants with specific plant parts and press and dry them to the sheet. Students find 14 different plant parts.
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Garbage Plants
Students create plants out of garbage. They identify items that can be recycled and discuss natural resources. They share their creation with the class.
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Measuring the Effects of Gravistimulation on Plants
Students conduct an experiment to determine if a plant's response to gravity is affected by different angles of plant orientation.
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Salt, Soil and Seeds
Students investigate seed growth by experimenting with different soils. In this ecology lesson plan, students plant seeds in paper cups and add differing amounts of salt to enhance the growth process. Students record which plants will...
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Seed Travel
Students explore the four different ways that seeds travel. They separate students into different groups and they act out how seeds travel. The groups act out their different scenarios in front of the class.
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Examining Seeds
Learners explore botany by conducting an investigation in class. In this seeds instructional activity, students utilize lima bean seeds and magnifying glasses to examine the different parts of a seed after it has been dissected. Learners...
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Seeds: How They Grow
Students observe the growing stages of plants. In this plant growth lesson, students collect, germinate, and plant seeds to chart the growth process of plants.
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Plants
Third graders study the factors necessary for plant growth and how plants adapt to their environment. They examine ow different plants require different environments to thrive.
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Start A Seed Collection
For this start a seed collection worksheet, students collect, label and display 15 seeds 3 each from a garden flower, a vegetable, a wildflower, a weed and the kitchen, and observe the differences.
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Special Seeds
Students create their own garden. In this gardening lesson, students get a packet of seeds and plant them in a special part of the garden. They are responsible for watering, weeding, and caring for their plants.
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Plant Life Cycle: Quiz Game
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...
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Plant Parts Salad
How are vegetables beneficial to a healthy diet? Have kids examine different types of vegetables, such as zucchini, broccoli, and carrots, and determine which parts of the plant they represent. Then, they taste the vegetables as a class....
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Horticulture and Gardening
In this colorful packet, students engage in a variety of activities involving plants and seeds. After answering the 50 questions in the packet, learners can go on to delve into their own projects.
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Sorting Things Out
Written to examine seeds that grow in Kansas, you can adapt this lesson to anywhere you live. Learners sort a mixture of five different seeds to by any characteristic of their choice. When your budding scientists are exploring the life...
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How Toxic Is It?
Students participate in an activity in which they investigate the scientific method and seed germination as well as practice graphing and metric measuring skills. Students examine toxicity by exposing Wisconsin Fast Plants seeds to toxic...
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2nd Grade - Act. 23: Sprout Houses
Read the story "Sunflower House," by Eve Bunting with your 2nd graders to investigate the relationships between plants and animals. They will discover how living things change during their lives by creating their own sprout houses. In...
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Life Cycle of a Plant: How Living Things Grow and Die
An engaging slide show for 2nd graders introduces them to the life cycle of plants. Students match up plant vocabulary words to their correct definition. Pairs of students play a vocabulary game, then students must draw and label leaves,...