Plants
Introduction:
Let's start by seeing how plants make their own food
#1 Plants with the Magic School bus-let's play along
http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/frizfreshfacts/friztv2/index.htm
#2 Let's do the following web quest together to learn more about plants
The Great Plant Escape
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/
http://www.dedham.k12.ma.us/webquest/summer2002/lp/plantswebquest.htm Plant Web Quest
#3 Play a few interactive games
Plant Force You work for a plant development company and and have to try and find out the optimum conditions for its growth. Which is the cheapest option?
Grow Alien plants Change the variables to grow Universe record breaking plant.
There are four plants that need feeding:
BBC virtual garden planner. Allows you to plan a garden then view it in '3D'
For a Challenge
#4 Research a topic on Plants
Plants have parts we can name
http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/plant/parts.html
Interactive plant parts
http://www.tooter4kids.com/Plants/parts_of_plants.htm
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/case1/c1m1a.html
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/4fly_traps/building.html
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/books/plants/colorfulflowers/
Printable book on plants
Fun With Flowers
Plant life cycles
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=lcycles5b
Helping plants grow well
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/plants_grow_fs.shtml
Flower anatomy
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=lcycles5b
Plant varieties
http://www.catie.org.uk/plants_galore_page.html
Experiments
What you do:
Work with a partner to complete the following activities.
The Legend of the Bluebonnet
The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush
My Pocket Garden
Conduct an experiment to find out what seeds need to grow.
What you need:
What you do:
What have you learned
A quiz using Flash
http://www.botanical-online.com/preguntes3angles.htm
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