Plants

The Needs of a Plant song: []

Plant Life Cycle Ideas

http://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?N=18340+4294949149&browseFilter=d_Service:DE%20Streaming,

This is a mini-book on the life cycle of a plant (includes, seed, sprout, needs of a plant, seeds traveling by wind, etc.) []

Brainpopjr – “Plant Life Cycle” video with quiz

This website has a 2 minute time-lapse video of a plant growing. It shows the stages from seed to adult. After watching the video have student make a 4 box drawing of stages of plant and compare to human life cycle (seed = newborn, etc) []

This sheet has 4 photo cards for students to color and cut and then rearrange in the correct order []

This website has a mini-book on plant life cycle (it has some vocabulary) []

SmartExchange has Plant Life Cycle - students discuss what happens when you plant a seed, read through stages plant life, watch a time-lapse video of seeds sprouting and growing, move pictures into correct stages of life

Read aloud The Carrot Seed (Krauss) and discuss what the boy did to care for the seed and what stages the plant went through. Students can make their own Carrot Seed book by illustrating themselves planting the seed, watering it, waiting, watching the plant grow bigger than them.

United Streaming - Magic Schoolbus Gets Planted (26 minutes) - Phoebe tries to grow a vine for the school play, "Jack and the Beanstalk." But her plant is more like a bean sprout than a beanstalk! With the opening curtain only moments away, Ms. Frizzle turns Phoebe into a bean plant so she’ll grow into the star of the show! Books available in the Klondike Library
 * How Do Apples Grow? (Maestro) - 582.016 Mae - Describes the life cycle of an apple from its initial appearance as a spring bud to that point in time when it becomes a fully ripe fruit.
 * The Tiny Seed (Carle) - 582 Car - A simple description of a flowering plant's life cycle through the seasons.
 * From Seed to Plant (Gibbons) - CS 581.3 Gib - Explores the intricate relationship between seeds and the plants which they produce.
 * From Seed to Pumpkin (Pfeffer) - CS 583 Pfe - An introduction to the transformation from tiny seed to fat pumpkin. (I have a cut and paste pumpkin life cycle worksheet)
 * Pumpkin, Pumpkin (Titherington) - E Tit - Jamie plants a pumpkin seed and, after watching it grow, carves it, and saves some seeds to plant in the spring.
 * Seeds (Saunders-Smith) - 575.6 Sau - Simple text and photographs depict types of flower seeds, how they travel, and what happens when they are planted.
 * The Dandelion Seed (Anthony) - E Ant - The story tells a reader about a dandelion