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Growing Things - Structure of Plants

For Students 4th - 7th
In this plant worksheet, students read about plants and growing things from a seed. They then answer the 14 questions on the worksheet. The answers are on the last page.
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Worksheet
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Science Drawing

For Students 7th - 9th
In this drawing in science worksheet, students read about what is needed to complete a drawing in order to communicate ideas and discoveries in science. Students analyze a drawing of a volcano and indicate the problems with the drawing....
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Lesson Plan
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Sunflowers

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students are read a book about sunflowers. They discover the nutrients that a sunflower can give to a person when they are eaten. They also plant their own sunflower seeds and watch them grow.
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Interactive
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Plant Life Cycle

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this exploring the processes from seed to reproduction of a plant online interactive worksheet, students read a passage explaining the plant life cycle and answer multiple choice questions about what they read. Students choose 8 answers.
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Lesson Plan
Oklahoma Ag in The Classroom

Bee Smart Bee Happy

For Teachers K - 2nd
Here is a wonderfully designed instructional activity on bees and pollination designed for early elementary learners. After a class discussion on bees, pupils pretend to be a bee by picking up nectar off of "flowers" in the class. The...
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Lesson Plan
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How Does Your Garden Grow?

For Teachers K - 3rd
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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Lesson Plan
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Fossil Kit I - Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Here is a 14-page lesson plan that deftly outlines a wonderful educational experience for your youngsters. In it, students learn about a variety of animals that have left behind clues of their existence in fossil form. Many excellent...
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Worksheet
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Glossaries

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Explore text structure with a focus on the glossary feature in informational texts. Learners read a brief introduction before examining a glossary from a text about plants. They reference it while completing four comprehension questions....
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Handout
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Kentucky School for the Deaf

Levels of Organization within an Ecosystem

For Students 5th - 10th Standards
From tiny organisms to entire biomes, young scientists examine the interdependent relationships tying all living and non-living things together with this collection of ecology resources.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Baobab Tree Math

For Students 4th - 6th
In this tree math instructional activity, students read about baobab trees and answer math word problems about them. Students complete 3 problems including distance problems, making a chart, and calculating measurements.
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Lesson Plan
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The Joy of a Garden-Earth Day

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore the purpose of a garden. In this Earth Day instructional activity, students read the story The Gardener and complete a Venn diagram comparing life in a city to farm life. Students discuss Earth Day and plant flowers in a...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Eat Your Vegetables Challenge

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this healthy diet worksheet, students read the statements about vegetables and select the answer that best complete the 11 statements.
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The Peanut Wizard

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Peanuts inspire this lesson about George Washington Carver, called The Peanut Wizard in the included informational text. Class members read about peanuts and George Washington Carver and create a timeline of his life. In addition, pupils...
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Lesson Plan
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How has rice been produced throughout history?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research rice history. In this rice history lesson, 4th graders discover the farming methods used to cultivate rice. They read about the role of rice in many cultures. 
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Lesson Plan
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What a Garden Can Teach

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers read about land and gardening and create found poems from the text. They use the poems to design interpretation quilts of communal text.
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Lesson Plan
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The Green Truck Garden Giveaway

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students read "The Green Truck Garden Giveaway" and explore the hobby of gardening. After observing illustrations in the book, students predict possible events in the story. They discuss gardening and write a story about a community...
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Lesson Plan
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Language Arts: Ode to the Ordinary

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders select ordinary objects, determine their uses, and write poems about them. Once they select an object, they create a web about its uses to serve as an outline. Once they have written their own odes, 8th graders meet in...
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Lesson Plan
Cornell University

Beneficial Insects

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
A lot of people think of insects as pests. But actually, some insects are beneficial because they get rid of pests! After learning about beneficial insects, class members research given insects to find out if they are pests or predators.
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Lesson Plan
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Monet's Magical Garden

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students study classic paintings by masters like Monet. In this art history lesson, students listen to the story Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert and sing flower songs with the rest of their class. Students examine the painting The...
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The New York Times

Trouble in the Hive: Researching the Decimation of Honeybee Colonies

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Teach your class about colony collapse disorder and foster discussion about causes and solutions for the honeybee problem. Class members read and discuss an article and participate in one of two detailed activities about pollination and...
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Lesson Plan
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Fossil Kit II

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Youngsters examine four fossil replicas and chart their time periods, vertebrate or invertebrate, and the names of other organisms living at the same time. A specific fossil kit is available for sale if you do not have the same samples....
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Website
American Museum of Natural History

The Tree of Life

For Students 6th - 12th
Groups of species can have more in common than meets the eye. An interactive cladogram shows some of the connections between important groups of species. Learners click on sections of the diagram to learn more about the connections or on...
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Lesson Plan
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S-O-I-L Soil

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research soil, its nutrients, and plant growth. In this soil lesson, 5th graders create soil journals, trace flowers, and include nutrient information on each petal. Students read an excerpt from "McBroom Tells the Truth."...
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Lesson Plan
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Why Are Bees Important?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify and analyze pollination and how bees play an important part in the life cycle of flowering plants. They also identify the process of plant pollination and how bees play an important part in the life cycle of flowering...