1. The Question

Plants are made up of many different parts. These parts are important toour diet.

In this lesson you will find out how plants grow and what they need to grow. You will also learnabout the parts that make up a plantand be able to identify the parts of theplant that we eat.

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2. Information Sources

Use what you already know aboutplants to help you complete theLesson.

The following are websites where youcan find more information on differentparts of plants, what they need togrow, and the part they play in ourdiet.

The Great Plant Escape

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Growning A Plant

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3. The Student Activity

Using Kidpix Studio Deluxe, draw aplant, label its parts, and write thefunction of each part.Make sure you put your name and datebefore you start your picture.

You may use your science textbook ifyou need to.

Make sure you include the following:StemFlowerLeafRootSeed

Please print your finished product.

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4. The Assessment Activity

Show what you know!1. Click on the following website. Match the drawings with the names of

the plant parts and make a salad.Cool Science2. Click on the following website to see if you can guess which plant

part each food is. When you have finished, print out your results.Plant Parts

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5. Enrichment Activities

Growing Lettuce Indoors

Try this website to see if you cangrow lettuce indoors. Print out thedirections and work with apartner.

Lettuce

Your teacher will provideyou will all the materials youneed.

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6. Teacher Support MaterialsScience Standard 1: Recognize that plantsare living things that, grow, reproduce, anddie.Standard 2: Identify and explain thecharacteristics of living things.Standard 8: Identify an organism’s basicneeds and specific elements the habitatmust provide.Reading & Language Standard 7.4: Use correctspelling of high frequency words.Standard 7.6: Recognize common irregularspelled words.Comprehension Standard 22.2: Use correctstandard English mechanics.Research Standard 24.1: Generate questionsand gather information from several sources in aclassroom, school, or library.

• Learn the entire life cycle of the following plants from how they grow to when they are ready to be eaten in this series called Life Cycles by Melanie Mitchell:

• The Life Cycle of a Carrot• The Life Cycle of a Bean• The Life Cycle of a Potato• The Life Cycle of an Apple Tree• The Life Cycle of a Sunflower

• Other good books:• From Seed To Plant by Gail Gibbons• How A Seed Grows by Helene J.

Jordan• A Seed Grows (My First Look at a

Plant’s Life Cycle) by Pamela Hickman

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