Plants Gr. 4-5

Book excerpt: Give your students the chance to try out their "green thumbs" as they explore plants. Student notes explain much of the knowledge-based information contained in the unit. The Discovery Worksheets help to motivate students by providing hands-on experiments that uses readily available materials and follows a "Purpose, Materials, Procedure, Conclusions and Questions" format. Complete with 12 optional activities — including several plant related experiments — that provide flexibility as well as enrichment, teachers can create a custom lesson plan suitable for their classroom. The world of plants comes alive with this practical teaching package. This Earth Science lesson provides a teacher and student section with a variety of reading passages, activities, crossword, word search and answer key to create a well-rounded lesson plan.