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Title:
| Science: Plant Science: Teaching with Comedy |
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Description:
| Learn about plants, cells, and seeds. Find out how science can be a fun activity. Read jokes and fun facts about plants. The sites include interactive games, quizzes, printouts, in class activities, and video files. There are links to eThemes resources about different species of plants, the structures, and functions of cells. |
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Grade Level:
| 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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Resource Links:
| Enchanted Learning: Plant Anatomy
Learn the anatomy of plants and click on the "Label Me!" printout to practice this new knowledge. NOTE: The site includes ads.
Enchanted Learning: Plant Printouts
This site includes a number of plant printouts of several plants. NOTE: The site includes ads.
BrainPOP!: Cell Structure
View an animated movie about a cell structure then take a quiz. NOTE: The web site is available by subscription only.
BrainPOP!: Cell Specialization
Learn about processes inside a cell and their functions. NOTE: The web site is available by subscription only.
The Great Plant Escape
Enter the site to learn about plants while solving mystery cases with detective LePlant and his helpers, Bud and Sprout. Choose among six cases at the top of the page.
UC Vegetable Research and information Center
Find vegetable jokes on this page.
Surfing the Net with Kids: Garden Jokes
This page has jokes about fruits, vegetables, and gardening. NOTE: The site includes ads.
How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers
Click on the "Onward to the Contents Page!" link and follow links-book pages to learn how familiar flowers can be viewed in unusual ways. NOTE: The site leads to websites with forums. NOTE: The site leads to websites with ads.
Completely Useless, Yet Interesting, Facts Collection
Click on the "Plants" link at the left to read a number of interesting facts about plants. NOTE: The site includes pop-up and banner ads.
Michigan 4-H Children Garden at MSU
Here younger kids can build a plant online, read and listen to stories, and learn how to grow a plant. Click on the "What is Science?" link in the Experiments section to view a movie about how learning about plants can be easy and fun: all you need to do is just ask questions.
Plants-in-Motion Home
Enter the site and view various movies about plant growth. Includes plant art and a list of Hollywood movies that use plants or their names in titles.
Virtual Cell
Here kids can use different tools to view, zoom, cut, and turn a virtual plant cell. Under the Search choose a chloroplast, thylakoid, mitochondrion, crista, or nucleus and then click on the image to enlarge it. NOTE: The site leads to websites with forums. NOTE: The site includes ads.
Plant Cells: The Plot Thickens
Find out what job each part of the cell has inside the plant.
Aquatic Plants
Click on the "Introduction" link and then choose the "Photosynthesis" to learn how plants absorb carbon dioxide to produce oxygen. Includes images.
Quiz on Plants: Student Research Activity
This quiz tests knowledge of terms related to plants and their cells. NOTE: The site includes ads.
Plant Quiz
Answer questions about plants and their parts in this online quiz. Includes images.
Plant Quiz by Mrs. Roell
Take this online quiz to test your knowledge about a plant, its growth, and photosynthesis.
Quia: Botany: All Activities by Title
This page has a number of links to various quizzes, games, and flashcards about plants.
Wisconsin Fastplants: Teacher Resources: Activities
This page has PDF files with handouts, in-class activities, and projects for elementary and middle school students. Here students can learn about plants biological variations and seeds.
Carrot Tops
Do this in class activity and find out whether a plant can grow on the top of a carrot. NOTE: The site includes pop-up and banner ads. NOTE: The site has a link to a teachers' forum.
Lights Out
During this activity students can learn about the importance of sunlight for plant growth. NOTE: The site includes pop-up and banner ads. NOTE: The site has a link to a teachers' forum.
Water Flow in Plants
This activity can help students answer a question: Can water travel through plant stem? NOTE: The site includes pop-up and banner ads. NOTE: The site has a link to a teachers' forum.
eThemes Resource: Plants: Species and Parts
These sites have information on different species of plants as well as their parts and functions.
eThemes Resource: Cells: Plants and Animals
These sites describe the structures and functions of plant and animal cells. Zoom in on cells to see what they look like as the magnification of the microscope changes. Includes several images and some animated movies. There is a link to an eThemes Resource on mitosis.
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Education Standards:
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MO Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.4, 3, 3, 4, 7
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