Teaching Themes
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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Extension Activities The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree Extension ActivitiesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 After reading The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree by Gail Gibbons, sprout an apple seed or visit an apple tree in blossom to teach about... |
Writing Activities, Extension Activities City Green Extension ActivitiesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Extension activity for City Green by Dyanne DiSalvo-Ryan. |
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Writing Activities, Book Resources, Extension Activities From Seed to Plant Extension ActivitiesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Extension activity for From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons. |
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... |
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 Book Resources, Lesson Plans Building a Butterfly GardenGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Observe butterfly life cycles with this lesson plan in which students prepare the soil, plant, and maintain a butterfly habitat. |
Plant PursuitGrades: Plant Pursuit is an outdoor plant-hunting activity developed by Scholastic and sponsored by Snowmass. |
Lesson Plans Harvest PrintsGrades: PreK–K Using fruits and vegetables as stamps, students create prints and patterns to reinforce the lesson that fruits contain seeds. |
George Washington CarverGrades: This content resource on George Washington Carver, African American inventor of peanut butter and over 400 plant products, includes a link to a... |
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Lesson Plans Seed SensationGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Students learn all about seeds through dissection, classification, comparison and contrast, and hands-on planting experience. |
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CyberHunt: Into the AmazonGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Take your students down the Amazon River. Begin with our CyberHunt Reproducible of internet-based activities. |
Summer Health Activity: A Veggie BuffetGrades: 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,... |
Activity Plan Mixed Ages: The Sprouting Seed RaceGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Children participate in a "sprouting seed race," during which they observe and compare the growth rates of different seeds. |
Writing Activities, Book Resources, Lesson Plans Carrot Seed Lesson PlanGrades: 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... |
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Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Goes to SeedGrades: 3–5 Enjoy this Magic School Bus goes to seed activity. Ms. Frizzle's class hangs on inside the tiny bus as it hitches a ride on a wind-traveling seed... |
Activities and Games The Magic School Bus Meets the Rot SquadGrades: 3–5 Ms. Frizzle's class finds out how rot makes rich soil for new growth. Your kids discover the connection between rot and leaves mixed in damp soil... |
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Book Resources, Books SeedfolksGrades: 3–5, 6–8 One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and... |
Writing Activities, Book Resources, Lesson Plans Seedfolks Lesson PlanGrades: 6–8 Seedfolks is a wonderful exploration of character development and will empower your students to want to do more to positively affect the... |
