This "hands-on science" lesson helps students address the question of what plants do with all the water they absorb. This lesson includes a reading comprehension.
Read the story about photosynthesis. Color and cut out the pictures.
Place the pictures in the correct boxes on the next page. Glue the pictures in place.
Basic introduction to photosynthesis, followed by short answer and multiple choice questions, with a diagram to label showing the photosynthesis process.
In this "hands on science" experiment, students compare growth between beans planted in soil and beans planted without soil in order to understand the importance of soil nutrients to plant growth.
PowerPoint with Audio. Part of the Living on Planet Earth series. This presentation includes colorful images and illustrations to explain how plants have adapted to living in areas frequented by fire. It explains the nature of fire -- how it destroys and revives plant and animal species.
PowerPoint with Audio. Part of the Living on Planet Earth series. This presentation includes colorful images and illustrations to explain how plants have adapted to living in soils with high concentrations of minerals. These plants are growing near salt water, in irrigated fields and in soils containing volcanic rock.
PowerPoint with Audio. Part of the Living on Planet Earth series. This presentation includes colorful images and illustrations explaining the history of plants. It describes how plants have adapted over geologic time from spore-bearing species to flowering species that now dominate the landscape. It explains the process of germination and provides an overview of plant reproduction.
PowerPoint with Audio. Part of the Living on Planet Earth series. This presentation includes colorful images and illustrations that describe how plants make their own food through the process of photosynthesis. It also provides basic concepts as to how plants and animals breathe and obtain nutrition.
PowerPoint with Audio. Part of the Living on Planet Earth series. This presentation includes colorful images and illustrations that describe how plants breathe through the processes of transpiration and respiration. It also provides basic concepts of the Earth's water cycle.
PowerPoint with Audio. Part of the Living on Planet Earth series. This presentation includes colorful images and illustrations that describe how plants reproduce. It has high vocabulary and deeper concepts than most in this series. Explains the basic methods of plant reproduction for spore and seed bearing plants. Provides answers to many "How do they do that?" questions.
PowerPoint with Audio. Part of the Living on Planet Earth series. This presentation includes colorful images and illustrations to explain how plants grow by describing their basic structure. Defines true plants, and the differences between very simple plants that absorb water (moss) and plants that have a "plumbing system" of roots, stems and leaves (rose).
PowerPoint with Audio. Part of the Living on Planet Earth series. This presentation includes colorful images and illustrations to explain how plants have adapted to living in the tundra of mountains and the Polar Regions. These tundra environments have extreme conditions involving climate, weather, sunlight and soil conditions. Part 2 of 2 units.
PowerPoint with Audio. Part of the Living on Planet Earth series. This presentation includes colorful images and illustrations to explain how animals help plants reproduce. Describes how animals pollinate flowers and transport the resulting seeds to distant locations. Plant Kingdom, Animal Relationships Part 1 of 2 units.
PowerPoint with Audio. Part of the Living on Planet Earth series. This presentation includes colorful images and illustrations to explain how plants defend themselves against animal attack. It even describes why and how some plants eat animals! Plant Kingdom, Animal Relationships Part 2 of 2 units.
Four fact-filled reading comprehensions about plants: how they grow, the parts of a plant, the need for water, the need for sunlight. Includes a short review quiz.