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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.

Extension Activities, Book Resources I'm a Seed Extension Activities Grades: PreK–K, 1–2 To make a sponge garden, gather different kinds of small seeds. Read more >	Lesson Plans Planting a Rainbow Bulletin Board Grades: PreK–K Students learn about flower shapes and colors while studying, painting, and labeling various flowers for a bulletin board. Read more >
CyberHunt: Into the Amazon Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Take your students down the Amazon River. Begin with our CyberHunt Reproducible of internet-based activities. Read more >	Lesson Plans, Extension Activities Let's Learn About Plants! Grades: 1–2 Offers a lesson focusing on teaching students about plants through direct observation and drawing, photographing, and/or recording what they see... Read more >
Lesson Plans Seed Sensation Grades: PreK–K, 1–2 Students learn all about seeds through dissection, classification, comparison and contrast, and hands-on planting experience. Read more >	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. Read more >
Lesson Plans You're Wearing Your Plants! Grades: PreK–K, 1–2 Through this lesson plan, students learn that many of the everyday products we use come from trees and plants! Read more >	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... Read more >
Lesson Plans Harvest Prints Grades: PreK–K Using fruits and vegetables as stamps, students create prints and patterns to reinforce the lesson that fruits contain seeds. Read more >	Activity Plan Mixed Ages: The Sprouting Seed Race Grades: PreK–K, 1–2 Children participate in a "sprouting seed race," during which they observe and compare the growth rates of different seeds. Read more >
Lesson Plans, Writing Activities, Book Resources Seedfolks Lesson Plan Grades: 6–8 Seedfolks is a wonderful exploration of character development and will empower your students to want to do more to positively affect the... Read more >	Lesson Plans, Writing Activities, Book Resources The Carrot Seed Lesson Plan Grades: PreK–K, 1–2 The Carrot Seed is an easy way to introduce seeds as a unit of study. Students love to collect seeds and compare them in their museum. Students... Read more >
Lesson Plans, Extension Activities, Book Resources The 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... Read more >	Lesson Plans, Book Resources Building a Butterfly Garden Grades: PreK–K, 1–2 Observe butterfly life cycles with this lesson plan in which students prepare the soil, plant, and maintain a butterfly habitat. Read more >
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. Read more >	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... Read more >
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. Read more >	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. Read more >
Summer Health Activity: A Veggie Buffet Grades: PreK–K Vegetables are sorted as roots, stems, or leaves in this ready-to-use summer health activity. Allows kids of mixed ages to use motor, listening,... Read more >	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... Read more >