Plant Growth & Changes
Plant Growth & Changes (4.10) Lessons and Projects
Diary of a Flower TemplateFrench Diary of a Flower TemplatePlant Growth and Changes: 4.10
The activities in this ebook cover many of the general outcomes for plant growth and changes.
Diary of a Flower: Students will create an ebook that describes plant life cycle.
Plant Part Sort: 4.10.2
Students will sort plant pictures to discover four different plant parts; students will also begin completing a note-taking graphic organizer which will be used to record future information about the purpose of each plant part.
Outline: Plant Part PicsPlant Part Screencast: 4.10.2
Students will create a screencast explaining the purpose of plant roots, stems, leaves and flowers.
Plant ScreencastFlower ScreencastPhotosynthesis Requirements and Products (Teacher Outline)Photosynthesis: 4.10.4, 4.10.10
Students will use Google Slides to animate the process of photosynthesis to reinforce their understanding of the requirements and products of photosynthesis. Students should include the components for photosynthesis (requires light energy, water, carbon dioxide, and chlorophyll) and the products (Glucose, Oxygen).
Schools in Bloom: 4.10.4, 4.10.6
This cross-curricular project (Math, Science, Language Arts) will have students pretend to enter a district wide ‘Schools in Bloom’ contest. Students will design garden beds, find their measurements and choose the plants they will hold while considering the plant’s environmental needs to thrive.
Project outline and resources are all in the folder below.
Schools In BloomLes écoles qui fleurissentPlants of AlbertaPlants of Alberta Magazine: 4.10.6
Students will create a magazine using plants native to various regions in Alberta.
4.10.3 Describe common plants, and classify them on the basis of their characteristics and uses.
Seed Journal: 4.10.8, 4.10.9, 4.10.10
Students will complete a cycle of growth of a bean plant and observe and record the changes at each stage.
Life Cycles Flow Chart: 4.10.10
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the life cycle of a plant by creating a flow chart.
Describe different ways that seeds are distributed 4.10.11
Students create a collage with information that describes how seeds are distributed.
Plant Growth and Changes Formative Assessments & Games
Flippity Jeopardy Game on Plants created by Theresa Spreen
Plant Growth and Changes Templates
Links
- PowerKnowledge: Plants Powerknowledge has 10 sections on plants. Videos, web links, games, listen feature, and a list of science experiments are included.
- Study Jams - (Scholastic) includes a teaching video, key vocabulary, and also has a “test yourself” section (Roots & Stems, Photosynthesis, Seeds in Cones, flowers, Mosses & Ferns, The Kingdoms of Life, Plants with Seeds, Seeds in Fruit, Plants without Seeds, Plant Adaptations
- Kahoot game on plant seeds created by Mrs. McClements. Students click here Teachers click here Create your own game and share the link with us!
- Plants and life on Earth Identify and describe the general purpose of plant roots, stems, leaves and flowers.
- The Great Plant Escape Case #1 - identify the different parts of plants, what each part does, and how plants grow. Plant requirements for growth; identify the light, temperature, water and growing medium requirements of the plant.
- The Great Plant Escape Case #2 Understand the relationship between soil and plant life. Life cycle-from seed to seed.
- The Great Plant Escape Case #3 Discover how a seed grows into a plant; ways that various flowering plants can be propagated, including from seed, from cuttings, from bulbs and by runners.
- The Great Plant Escape #4 Discover that one plant can produce many other plants.
- Biology of Plants (Plant Parts, Making Food, Pollination, Seed Dispersal, Plant Adaptations)