ScienceWorks for Kids: Plants, Grades 1-3

Plants covers these concepts:

• a plant is a living thing
• plants have many parts
• each part of a plant has a special function
• the fruit of a flowering plant contains seeds
• seeds contain new plants
• seeds travel in many ways
• plants change as they grow
• plants need food, water, and light to grow
• people need plants for food and oxygen
• not all plants reproduce from seeds made by flowers

A variety of engaging activities present the concepts in ways that students can understand. Each concept presented includes:

• teacher directions for lessons
• reproducible resource pages such as sets of picture cards, minibooks, and lab sheets to record the results of hands-on investigations