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Key

Student Research

Whole Group Activity

Experiment

 

Resources

Questions

Experiments and Activities

Click on your flower to learn about a plant's basic needs.

Plants

What does a plant need to survive?

Label plant parts

Plant Life Cycle  

Plant Life Cycle Game 

To find out how a plant uses soil click on your color flower.

Soil

What does soil do for a plant?

What type of soil will work the best to grow plants?

How do worms help plants grow?

What is the best type of soil?

What do worms do to soil?

Learn more about a plant's need for sunlight.

Sunlight  

Why does a plant need sunlight?

    Grow Lab,  sunlight variable

  Plant Maze

Click on your flower to find out why a plant needs water. 

Water

Why does a plant need water? How does a plant get water? 

Grow Lab, water variable 

Take the water quiz
Does a plant need water?

Find out how air affects a plant by clicking on your color flower.

Air  

Why does a plant need air?

 Teacher Read Aloud with Following Directions Activity

Other Resources

Print Resources

  • How a Seed Grows by Helene Jordan
  • The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
  • Growing Vegetable Soup and Planting a Rainbow By Lois Ehlert
  • Vegetable Garden by Douglas Florian
  • From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons
  • Alison's Zinnia by Anita Lobel
  • Growing Colors by Bruce McMillan
  • A Seed is a Promise by Claire Merrill
  • How Seeds Travel: Popguns and Parachutes by Jane B. Moncure
  • In My Garden by Helen and Kelly Oechsli
  • A Flower Grows by Ken Robbins
  • Eat the Fruit, Plant, and Seed by Milliant E. Selsan
  • Anna's Garden Songs by Mary Q. Steele and Lena Anderson
  • The Magic Carrot Seeds by Carla Stevens
  • Flowers, Trees and Other Plants by John Stidworthy
  • Cherries and Cherry Pits by Vera B. Williams
  • My First Garden Book by Angela Wilkes
  • A Garden Alphabet by Isabel Wilner
  • Bugs by Joan R. Wright
  • Welcome to the Green House by Jane Yolen
  • The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds: A Book About How Living Things Grow by Joanna Cole

Online Resources

 

Created by Catherine Ditzell and Stephanie Willett

Last update: June, 2006

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