Teaching Themes
Plants: Everything You Need
These resources will help students study the structure, varieties, and uses of seeds, plants, flowers, and trees.
Online Activities, Online Learning Activities, Writing Activities, Lesson Plans, Extension Activities
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.
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.
Learning With Plants
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
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 Lesson Plans 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! |
 Writing Activities, Unit Plans Let's Plant!Grades: 1–2 Explains how to teach children firsthand about plant parts, plant growth, and plant care. |
 First Bloom With the First LadyGrades: 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... |
 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. |
 Articles Pipers and Ants, a Mini EcosystemGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Piper plants are home and food for a large number of different creatures, including some caterpillars, beetles, and ants. |
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 NurseryGrades: 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... |
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 BoardGrades: PreK–K Describes how students learn about shape and color through studying, painting, and writing about different types of flowers. |
Articles Group Time: Ants and PlantsGrades: 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... |
Outdoor Activities/Music & Movement: Plant PlayGrades: PreK–K Children will develop gross-motor and sequencing skills in this ready-to-use teaching idea for mixed ages. Activity: Music & Movement. |
Activity Plan 4-5: Ask the ExpertGrades: 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. |
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... |
Summer Nature Activity: Comparing SeedsGrades: 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 ActivitiesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Extension activity for Carlos and the Squash Plant by Jan Romero Stevens. |
Book Resources, Discussion Guides I'm a Seed Discussion GuideGrades: 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 ActivitiesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 To make a sponge garden, gather different kinds of small seeds. |
Book Resources, Extension Activities Life in the Rainforest Extension ActivityGrades: 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 PlanGrades: 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... |
Book Resources, Lesson Plans and Unit Plans The Carrot SeedGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Extension activities for The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss. |
