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  1. What Parts Are There to a Plant?
    Go to Record #3602  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?Benchma...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Science — Science and Technology, Understanding Technology, Equipment, Tools, and Materials, Science and Inquiry, Inquiry Process Skills, Scientific Ways of Knowing, Scientific Processes (e.g. questioning, predicting), Life Science, Characteristics and Structures of Life, Plants and Animals
    Commentary: In this lesson for grades K - 2, children identify and sort plant parts in open-ended ways. Children examine the plants, leaves, stems, roots, and flowers to formulate and answer questions about what they are touching, smelling, and seeing...


  2. Have You Ever Met a Tree?
    Go to Record #6114  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/age...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: Science — Science and Inquiry, Inquiry Process Skills, Scientific Ways of Knowing, Scientific Processes (e.g. questioning, predicting), Life Science, Characteristics and Structures of Life, Needs of Living Things, Plants and Animals, Diversity and Interdependence of Life, Habitats, Heredity
    Commentary: This resource is a lesson on trees with extensive support information for the teacher. The activities of the lesson engage children and get them interested in one of the earth's most important resources, trees...


  3. Water Dynamics
    Go to Record #6115  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://www.uni.edu/coe/regentsctr/Activity_Sheets/...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 2-5
    Topics: Science — Science and Technology, Understanding Technology, Equipment, Tools, and Materials, Technological Design, Inventing and Building, Scientific Ways of Knowing, Scientific Processes (e.g. questioning, predicting), Physical Science, Forces and Motion, Making Things Move
    Commentary: This resource for teachers details a water play and exploration experience where children make predictions and follow outcomes of their predictions as water moves and flows through plastic cups. The children are encouraged to set up the cups in a variety of different arrangements and see what happens...


  4. Who's Hiding?
    Go to Record #6194  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonpl...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 4-5
    Topics: Science — Life Science, Characteristics and Structures of Life, Needs of Living Things, Heredity
    Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Responding to Stories, Reading to Children
    Commentary: This is a set of activities about animals who hatch from eggs. These lessons engage children in learning about eggs and life cycles in fun and age appropriate ways...


  5. Pushy Seeds
    Go to Record #6195  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonpl...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 2-5
    Topics: Science — Life Science, Characteristics and Structures of Life, Needs of Living Things, Plants and Animals
    Commentary: This very simple and short resource has a child or group of children plant a seed in a cup, then cover the cup with a rock, and then watch for a few days to see what happens. Children should make frequent observation and recordings and perhaps chart the progress of their plants growth...


  6. The Sprouting Seed Race
    Go to Record #6196  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonpl...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 2-5
    Topics: Science — Science and Inquiry, Inquiry Process Skills, Life Science, Characteristics and Structures of Life, Needs of Living Things, Plants and Animals, Diversity and Interdependence of Life, Habitats, Heredity
    Commentary: This resource is one where children watch and record the sprouting and growth of two seeds. Through the germination and growth of the seeds, the children make comparisons between the two plants...


  7. From Seed to Plant
    Go to Record #6198  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/unit_see...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: Science — Science and Technology, Understanding Technology, Equipment, Tools, and Materials, Science and Inquiry, Inquiry Process Skills, Scientific Ways of Knowing, Scientific Processes (e.g. questioning, predicting), Life Science, Characteristics and Structures of Life, Needs of Living Things, Plants and Animals, Diversity and Interdependence of Life, Habitats, Heredity, Earth and Space Science, Earth Processes and Materials, Weather and Climate, Physical Science, Materials Exploration
    Commentary: This resource offers an extensive unit of study on plants and many topics within the life science area. The lesson is divided into 3 lessons and a culminating activity, but each lesson has many days of work included within it and even more time than that could be spent learning and exploring plants with this resource as a support...


  8. Absorbing Experiments
    Go to Record #6199  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/ect/absorbi...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 3-5
    Topics: Science — Scientific Ways of Knowing, Scientific Processes (e.g. questioning, predicting), Physical Science, Materials Exploration
    Commentary: In this activity, children explore water at a water table in ways that will develop math, science, and language skills. They learn about water absorption by comparing materials that do and do not absorb water...


  9. Fingerpaint Leaf Prints
    Go to Record #6200  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonpl...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 3-4
    Topics: Science — Science and Inquiry, Inquiry Process Skills, Life Science, Characteristics and Structures of Life, Plants and Animals
    Commentary: This lesson has the children learning about leaves. The children go outside to collect some leaves, bring them in, and put fingerpaint on them...


  10. Let's Take a “Touch” Walk
    Go to Record #6202  Add To My REC Collection
    URL: http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/ect/touch_w...
    Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
    Ages: 2-5
    Topics: Science — Science and Technology, Understanding Technology, Safety, Science and Inquiry, Inquiry Process Skills, Scientific Ways of Knowing, Scientific Processes (e.g. questioning, predicting), Life Science, Characteristics and Structures of Life, Living and Nonliving, Physical Science, Classifying and Sorting, Materials Exploration
    Reading and Language Arts — Writing Development
    Commentary: This lesson invites students to take a walk outside the school building, to use their senses to explore the environment and then to use and develop language skills to describe it. It is an excellent activity for young children...


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