Growing plants - Interactive science activity for 5-6 year olds

the Great plant escape - interactive learning about plants

Biology of Plants
 http://mbgnet.mobot.org/bioplants/main.html
 Learn about plant parts and pollination.

 What Are the Parts of Plants?
 http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/case1/c1m1a.html
 Match each clue with the part that it describes. Click on the letter you
 think is the right one to check your answers.

 Plant-Parts Salad
 http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/vegquiz/index.html
 Find out which is a leaf, stem, fruit, root or flower and complete the  quiz.


Delicious Pieces: The Vegetables We Eat

   Uses "grocery store vegetables to examine how seed plants are
   constructed" and to teach the basic elements of morphology (the
   "study of body forms"). Discusses seeds, specialized root systems
   (such as carrots), shoot systems (such as asparagus and kohlrabi),
   edible leaves, flowers (broccoli), and other forms of vegetables.
   Includes photographs. From Marion Ownbey Herbarium, Washington
   State University. http://www.wsu.edu:8080/%7Ewsherb/edpages/delicious/introduction.html

 Parts of a Plant
 http://www.spacesciencegroup.org/sootw/Default.asp?Theme=plants&pagename=plantparts
 Typical plants that grow in the ground have the same basic parts. Find out
 about each.

 Plant Nutrients
 http://www.ncagr.com/cyber/kidswrld/plant/nutrient.htm
 Learn about the sixteen chemical elements known to be important to a
 plant's growth and survival.

 From Seed to Seedling
 http://www.rbg.ca/cbcn/en/cbcn4kids/kid_seed.htm
 Diagrams and explanation of the life of a plant.

 Plant Structure and Growth
 http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/biocoach/plants/intro.html
 This BioCoach activity can help you review the basic structure and growth
 of flowering plants (angiosperms).

 

 Dottie's Garden
 http://www.primarygames.com/storybooks/plant/start.htm
 Online story for kids.

 BBC: Growing Plants
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/growing_plants.shtml
 Use this interactive game to help the plants grow.

   How Plants and Flowers Grow
 http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/Science/HowPlantsGrow/HowPlantsGrow.htm
 Find out how plants and flowers grow.

 Gymnosperms
 http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/nwep14e.htm
 Gymnosperms are plants that have seeds but no flowers. Learn about the
 different types.

 Angiosperms
 http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/nwep14f.htm
 There are over 250,000 species of angiosperms. Angiosperms are flowering
 plants. They make up around 80 percent of all the living plant species on  Earth.

 Botanists In Training Dictionary
 http://www.rbg.ca/cbcn/en/cbcn4kids/kid_word.htm
 Click on the letter the word starts with to find out the meanings of
 botanical terms.
 

Plants in Motion
http://sunflower.bio.indiana.edu/~rhangart/plantmotion/starthere.html
"With few exceptions, plants grow and change on a time scale that is too slow for us to observe in real time. Time-lapse photography is a simple technique that allows us to see the movements of plants." Movies are in QuickTime format.

 Plants
 http://www.mcwdn.org/Plants/PlantsMain.html
 This website contains information, quizzes, links and activities on  plants.

 Exploring The Secret Life of Trees
 http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/trees2/

 Poisonous Plants
 http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/publications/poison/poison.html
 Many poisonous plants are so common and seemingly innocuous you do not
 suspect their toxic qualities. Find out all about them.

 Australian Plant Images
 http://www.anbg.gov.au/projects/aust-plant-images/aust-plant-images.html
 National Plant Photographic Index maintained by the Australian National
 Botanic Gardens.

 Tropical Rainforest Plants
 http://www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk/curric/NEWGEOG/Habitats/world.htm
 Information about various types of rainforest plants.

 Tropical Plant Database
 http://www.rain-tree.com/plants.htm
 Raintree is dedicated to providing accurate and factual information on the
 important plants of the Amazon Rainforest, therefore this section of the
 Raintree web site is the most extensive.

 Plant Medicines
 http://www.rainforesteducation.com/medicines/medcontents.htm
 Information about plant medicines found in the US.

 Wildflowers In Bloom
 http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/wildseed/tamuhort.html
 Learn about seed germination, annuals, perennials, and biennials and weeds.

 Weird Plants
 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/08/0827_030828_weirdplants.html
 Learn about strange and unusual plants.

 Lessons

 Structure Of A Plant
 http://www.iit.edu/%7Esmile/bi9707.html
 To Investigate How Plants Grow With And Without Seeds.

 Plant Parents
 http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=91
 In this lesson, students will come to understand that most plants usually
 reproduce sexually. Students will learn the parts of the flower and the
 process of sexual reproduction in plants.

 Plant Propagation
 http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=22
 Students learn how to grow a plant by vegetative propagation and
 understand why it might be advantageous to do so.

 Photosynthesis, Trees, and the Greenhouse Effect
 http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/08/g68/brainpopphoto.html
 In this lesson, students will study photosynthesis and then transfer their
 understanding of this topic to a consideration of how trees can help
 reduce the negative impacts of the greenhouse effect.

 Let it Grow
 http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=804
 This project motivates students to learn about organic gardening by > developing their own research questions, conducting research, and
 gardening at their school.

 Growing Plants Unit
 http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/letsnet/noframes/subjects/science/b2u3.html
 This unit is designed to encourage students to develop the scientific
 skills of observation, predicting, controlling variables, experimenting,
 inferring and recording information as they study the effects of water,
 soil, and sunlight on growing plants.

 Plants and Photosynthesis
 http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes2/secondary_science/sci09c/
 Students learn about photosynthesis as the key process producing new plant
 biomass.

 Investigating the Structure of the Flower
 http://www.iit.edu/%7Esmile/bi9702.html
 The students will learn the basic anatomy of a flower by means of creating a model.

 From Flower to Fruit
 http://www.iit.edu/%7Esmile/bi8917.html
 Students will learn about self-pollination and pollination by insects and  other animals.

 Name That Seed
 http://www.iit.edu/%7Esmile/bi8619.html
 The student should be able to recognize and differentiate between the male
 and female reproductive organs of a flower.

 Seed Germination
 http://www.iit.edu/%7Esmile/bi9404.html
 The main objective of the Mini-teach is to show students that water and
 air are essential to the germination process of plant life and that this
 process can be demonstrated by using any different number of growth
 chambers.

 Structure and Function of Seeds
 http://www.iit.edu/%7Esmile/bi9417.html
 Two experiments are performed to show the function of the cotyledons in
 providing nourishment to the plant during the early times after
 germination.

 Teacher Reference

 Australian Bush Medicines
 http://www.cherikoff.net/cherikoff/articles/bushmeds.htm
 This invited paper was presented by Vic Cherikoff to the World Self
 Medication Association conference in Sydney. It outlines the many
 Australian plant resources used by Aborigines to treat the ills of
 everyday life.

 Green Medicines
 http://www.nps.gov/plants/medicinal/plants.htm
 Historically, plants have played an important role in medicine. For early
 peoples, they came easily to hand, and were intricately connected to diet
 and healing.