Students will investigate the necessity and usefulness of plant defense mechanisms through examination of local plants, as well as plants within the tropical montane cloud forest of Monteverde, Costa Rica via the Clouds in the Canopy website.

Students conduct their own experiments to better understand the effect of gravitropism on plant growth.

This website features movies that show a variety of plants living out their dynamic lives. Time-lapse photography is used to show how plants grow and develop, search for light and nutrients, avoid predators, exploit neighbors, and reproduce.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade Science. 

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade Science. 

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team and is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade Science.

In this lesson, students explore photos of plant cells as an anchoring phenomenon to explore the response of plant cells to stimuli.

In this lesson, students will explain how plants respond to external stimuli to enhance survival in an environment.