In this short video and accompanying activity and readings, students learn about Longleaf Pine Ecosystems by exploring Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve in North Carolina.
This lesson introduces students to the natural resources that help plants grow. Students will work in small groups to explore natural resource items and discuss their importance to humans. The teacher then shares with students a booklet about the natural environment, which provides information via a series of concept maps and allows recording of students' experiences and thoughts through both writing and drawing. Students will also read, discuss, and illustrate booklets about seeds and plants.
Students will learn about the life cycle of plants working in stations to make observations about seeds, vegetation, flowers, and fruits.
Students will design plant packages that meet the needs of healthy plants.
In this lesson, students compare and contrast a variety of flower, friut, and tree seeds. They will plant three flower seeds and observe changes by keeping a log book to note these changes as it grows over a period of 8-10 weeks.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 3rd Grade Science.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 3rd Grade Science.
In this video, students learn about a type of seed. Angiosperm plants reproduce by producing seeds inside a fruit. Students will learn that the pits in cherries from cherry trees are seeds. Several other examples of angiosperm plants are shared.
In this video, students learn about another example of plants seeds. Gymnosperms are the oldest seed-baring plant. Students learn about their distinct appearance and life cycle.
In this video, students learn that plants produce seeds in order to reproduce. When a seed is fertilized, with the right conditions, it will germinate, starting the life of a new plant. Students will see different seeds in the video.
Through this website students can learn about seeds and how they grow by conducting their own plant investigation and sharing their thoughts with other kids.
In this three-month project, students investigate the best conditions for growing plants. Students create a problem statement, develop a study plan, test their ideas and use construction technology and computer technology as tools for research, planning, recording data and communicating.
Students use stick puppets to explain the various methods plants use to disperse their seeds.
In this lesson, students will become familiar with the parts of the plant and methods of seed dispersal. In addition, students will serve as a vector to pick up seeds and analyze the variety of items accumulated in the process.
Students will test different types of soil to determine which is best for growing plants.
Students will use a thermometer to measure the air temperature in several places around the school and then return to the classroom to graph the data. In addition, students will grow three plants in different amounts of sunlight and record their growth.
In this lesson, students review the three main parts of a tree. They complete a worksheet to learn the parts of a tree that are used in identification. Students play a game and act out how a tree meets its basic needs. They then label and put in order the life stages of a tree. As a conclusion, students draw their own tree, label it, and write a paragraph about how that tree is identified.