1.   Healthy Soil, Healthy Land Students will conduct an investigation to better understand the cause-and-effect cycle of soil health, including the local and global effects of pesticides, toxins, and other soil pollutants.

2.   Let's Learn About Plants! Demonstrates ways to teach students about plants and plant parts, including through direct observation, visual representation, and research.

3.   Let's Learn About Plants! Offers a lesson focusing on teaching students about plants through direct observation and drawing, photographing, and/or recording what they see.

4.   Let's Grow Plants! Poses a lesson plan in which students learn about seeds through comparative readings and directly observing seed growth.

5.   Seed Sensation Students learn all about seeds through dissection, classification, comparison and contrast, and hands-on planting experience.

6.   Get to The Root of It! Offers a lesson plan about plant roots, stems, leaves, and flowers, involving direct observation and diagramming.

7.   You're Wearing Your Plants! Illustrates that many of the everyday products we use come from trees and plants.

8.   What on Earth is in the Earth? Presents a lesson in which students study the organic and inorganic properties of soil through experimentation, observation, classification, and data analysis.

9.   Plants Give Us Food Teaches students about the types of fruits and vegetables grown on farms as well as the types of plants on which they grow.

10.   Desert Plant Adaptations in the Sonoran Desert Students in Desert Ecology classes will learn about and be able to identify the adaptations that plants have developed to survive the harsh conditions of the desert, and will be able to explain how these adaptations help to protect these plants.

1.   Plant Identification Activity back Plant Identification Activity Purpose To improve students' observational and communication skills and to help them learn to identify the plants commonly found in the study area. Overview of Activity Students will work in pairs to identify differences and similarities between two plants. On a pieces of paper, each group will list 5 similarities between the two plants and 5 differences. Students should focus their observations on characterist...

2.   Indoor Gardening Indoor Gardening Patricia H. Haynes Wirth Elementary School 1620 East 86th Street 4959 S Blackstone Ave. Chicago IL 60617 Chicago IL 60615 (312) 221-5879 (312) 535-1412 Objectives: To learn how different plants grow under certain conditions. To describe several uses of seed plants. The students will identify different seeds. To plant the seeds and watch them grow. Watch for the seven requirements for growing plants indoors: 1. Room to grow 2. Temperature 3. Light 4. Water 5. Time 6. Air 7. Food Materials:...

3.   Celery Stalkers Celery Stalkers (Adapted from The Recyculum: A Resource Conservation Curriculum for Grades K6, by Eco Alliance, Inc.) GRADE LEVELS: K-3 SUBJECT AREAS: science CONCEPT: How do plants use water? OBJECTIVE: To see how plants take up water and any dissolved pollutants. MATERIALS: _ jar or other container _ celery stalk (or white flower) _ food coloring KEYWORDS: water, pollution PROCEDURE: 1. Fill a container 3/4 full of water. 2. Add 3 drops of food dye. 3. Put a stalk of celery i...

4.   Creating Plants Creating Plants embed(../movies/lp0060.mov) Sunshine State Standards Create plants and write about them. LA.B.1.1.2 LA.B.2.1.3 Objectives SC.F.1.1.2 VA.B.1.1.4 Students use writing processes effectively. NETS Profiles for Technology Literate Students write to communicate ideas and Students information effectively....

5.   Origin of Coal ...nutes KERA Goals: 1.2 Objective: Students will information about how coal is formed. Background Information How is coal formed? Coal is classified by geologists as a mineral. But most minerals, like salt or iron ore, were formed by inorganic matter. Coal, on the other hand, came from organic matter plants that lived about 300 million years ago. During the Pennsylvanian Period in earth's history, the earth was covered with huge swampy forests of giant ferns, reeds and mosses, which grew taller than our tallest trees today. As these plants died and fell into the swamp water, new plants grew. In time, t...

6.   TeachNet -- Stop Invasive Plants Part 1 Finding and Collecting in the Field Overview Many immigrants to the new world For more about this special brought familiar plants from accidentally as stowaways or Pay Attention to our Earth! deliberately for their e-mail Gabriell DeBear Paye, transplanted gardens. Now, author and AT&T Teacher escaping cultivation and gone Disseminator. wild, some of these new plants are noxious "weeds" and compete with native vegetation. To u...

7.   Non vascular plants (2-27-2006) Lesson Plan Teacher: Mentor: Kim Matthes Bill May Subject: Biology Lesson Title: Non vascular plants (2-27-2006) Objectives: The students will understand nonvascular plants in more depth by knowing about their adaptations, characteristics, origins, and examples. TEKS No standards added. Motivation: Success will be found by Materials: the Biology students book, because the student note content book,...

8.   New Page 4 Here is a sample lesson from my plant unit: Lesson: Bean Plant Growth Subject: Science/Math Grade: 6-8 Time: over 2 week period Objectives: -Students will be able to understand how seeds grow into plants and reproduce seeds at a very fast rate. -Students will discover the rate at which plants can grow. -Students will learn what plants need in order to grow. Materials: -several flower pots or milk cartons with good soil in them -bean seeds -string to support the plants -a pencil, paper, and ruler to...

9.   Activity 4: Information to Record When Collecting Plants Teaching People Plant Collecting Return to Program's List of Lesson Plans Overview Activity 4 Activities Information to Record when Collecting Plants Evaluation OBJECTIVE: Students will learn the information that needs to be recorded when plants are collected. They will then apply this information to at least five different plants collected in the field. Collecting data may be written directly on the newspaper the plant is pressed in, or written...

10.   ND Plants with Lewis & Clark _ _ ND Lewis & Clark Resource Collection _ _ North Dakota Plants with Lewis and Clark Kathy Knoepfle Subject / Curriculum Grade Level Time Frame Biology 10 3-4 weeks _ Objectives: The student will be able to identify native plants of North Dakota. They will compare the plants found on native prairie with the plants described in the Lewis and Clark journals. They...