LESSON PLANS
Green thumbs for everyone! Teach your pupils about horticulture and hydroponics with this hands-on printable science…
Create a class garden with this lesson plan. Your students will observe the growth of the plants after the garden has…
Grow herbs indoors all year by creating a mini-greenhouse.
By making their own miniature garden, students can observe first hand how plants grow.
Students learn about a sunflower and other plants through observation, estimation, and counting.
Pupils will learn about the similarities between human sweating and plant transpiration. In this hands-on science…
Will your students make the next great antibiotics discovery? Teach your students about the history of mold and its…
ACTIVITIES
Children discover how seeds hitch a ride with the wind, in the water, or on an animal to become planted and grow.
Students press flowers and plants with heavy books to make lovely decorations. Then, they use the pressed flowers to…
Hands-on look at the "basics" of acids and alkalis Introduce pupils to botany and the basics of acids and bases with…
Students discover how flowers get a little help from birds and insects to transfer pollen between them to form seeds and…
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Introduce your students to a KWL chart that is a graphic organizer for recording what students Know, Want to know, and…
In this hands-on science activity, pupils will microwave batches of seeds for different amounts of time and observe if…
Introduce your pupils to cross-pollination with this printable science activity. Pupils will cross-pollinate flowers and…
In this science fair project, pupils bake soil to kill microorganisms and attempt to grow plants in the soil.
In this science activity, students dissect a flower to learn about how plants grow from seeds.
Students create a classification system for types of Cerealites (pieces of cereal). Tests students' understanding of…
WORKSHEETS
Math can easily be incorporated and correlated to a unit of studies on plants. Here are some suggestions for you to try.
Pupils compare the growth of bean seeds submerged in water to traditionally potted bean plants in this printable science…
This spring-themed lesson supplements a unit on plants, ecosystems, or biomes for middle school science. Mapped to NGSS…
Become an instant expert on plants! Find motivational mini-lessons and the reference material you need to reinforce key…
After fruits and seeds have been introduced, use these PowerPoint slides to show the various ways that seeds can be…
Review vocabulary with a list about flowers aligns with the lesson Flower Power.
Use a printable that contains several activity plans involving popcorn and math, and art and science.
