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Plants: Everything You Need

These resources will help students study the structure, varieties, and uses of seeds, plants, flowers, and trees.

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Let's Grow Plants!

Grades: 1–2, 3–5

Students learn about seeds through a combination of comparative readings and directly observation of seed growth.

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Writing Activities, Book Resources, Lesson Plans

Plants Give Us Food

Grades: PreK–K

Teaches students about the typesof fruits and vegetables grown on farms as well as the types of plants on which they grow.

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Learning With Plants

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

Check out these and other great plant-related books and at The Teacher Store.

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You're Wearing Your Plants!

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Through this lesson plans, students learn that many of the everyday products we use come from trees and plants!

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Writing Activities, Unit Plans

Let's Plant!

Grades: 1–2

Explains how to teach children firsthand about plant parts, plant growth, and plant care.

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First Bloom With the First Lady

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

First Lady Laura Bush introduced the First Bloom program, sponsored by the National Parks Foundation at a school in Dallas, Texas recently. The...

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Lesson Plans

Get to the Root of It!

Grades: PreK–K

Use this lesson plan to teach about plant roots, stems, leaves, and flowers through direct observation and diagramming.

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Articles

Pipers and Ants, a Mini Ecosystem

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

Piper plants are home and food for a large number of different creatures, including some caterpillars, beetles, and ants.

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Articles, Lesson Plans

Spring Into Science!

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5

Offers suggestions for bringing living plant and animal specimens into the classroom for observation at the advent of the spring season.

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Online Learning Activities, Articles

The Online Nursery

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

This content resource helps teachers locate online resources on growing plants. Web links to gardening topics, facts on photosynthesis, and even a...

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Vegetable Roots Game PLAY!

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Don't let that veggie shrivel! You have two minutes to care for the root and figure out what it needs to grow.

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Lesson Plans

Planting a Rainbow Bulletin Board

Grades: PreK–K

Describes how students learn about shape and color through studying, painting, and writing about different types of flowers.

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Articles

Group Time: Ants and Plants

Grades: Early Childhood, PreK–K, 1–2

Young children are captivated by investigating nature and observing and creating growth and change. Church offers suggestions for activities...

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Outdoor Activities/Music & Movement: Plant Play

Grades: PreK–K

Children will develop gross-motor and sequencing skills in this ready-to-use teaching idea for mixed ages. Activity: Music & Movement.

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Activity Plan 4-5: Ask the Expert

Grades: PreK–K

Children will go on a trip where they will interview a person. They will have to think of questions to ask prior to the interview.

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Summer Activities: The Wonders of Nature!

Grades: PreK–K

Through these nature activities, children develop observation and prediction skills. Kids also use measurement and recording skills while...

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Summer Nature Activity: Comparing Seeds

Grades: PreK–K

Introduce your child to the things seeds need to grow. This summer activity teaches science skills such as observation, prediction, and problem...

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Book Resources, Extension Activities

Carlos and The Squash Plant Extension Activities

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Extension activity for Carlos and the Squash Plant by Jan Romero Stevens.

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Book Resources, Discussion Guides

I'm a Seed Discussion Guide

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Two seeds, one a marigold and the other a pumpkin, compare what is happening to them as they grow into maturity.

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Book Resources, Extension Activities

I'm a Seed Extension Activities

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

To make a sponge garden, gather different kinds of small seeds.

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Book Resources, Extension Activities

Life in the Rainforest Extension Activity

Grades: 3–5

Young readers are introduced to the animals, people, and plants of the world's rainforests, as well as the fight to save this important...

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Book Resources, Lesson Plans, Extension Activities

Dandelion Seed Lesson Plan

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

The bright and detailed illustrations in The Dandelion Seed make it a favorite with students. Students enjoy recreating the world of the seed, in...

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Book Resources, Lesson Plans and Unit Plans

The Carrot Seed

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Extension activities for The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss.

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