Students will use seeds and plants to increase their vocabulary, conduct research, create a timeline and make presentations. They will observe plant growth habits in different locations in classroom and report their findings. Students will design and illustrate their own seed packets.

• Peanut Lessons and Resources

Students will learn about germination by sprouting beans and caring for them in small necklaces which they keep around their necks.

Students learn basic information about bees and the importance of pollination in crop production. Includes a take home Parent Page with information about the Africanized honey bee (sometimes erroneously called "killer bees.")

• Native Agriculture
• Oklahoma Studies Lessons and Resources

Students will observe grass sprouting and growing like hair on heads they create from knee-high nylon stockings and potting medium.

Students grow flowers in different soil types to determine the effect on flavor.

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• Oklahoma Studies Lessons and Resources

Students observe the growth of fungus on slices of bread.

Students will read about growing a garden and learn how much space each plant requires to grow. Using area and perimeter, students will create a grid and plan a garden, allowing sufficient space for each plant to grow. Students will construct newspaper pots and plant seeds or plants. They will devise experiments to see the effect they will have on plants and their growth. Students will create artwork depicting their favorite vegetables. Students will play a simple garden game as they scramble to get a chair.

Students will work in small groups or individually to create scarecrows, write brief descriptions about them and display them in a class scarecrow show.

Students will examine seed catalogs and find information about plants, growing seasons, etc.

The students germinate seeds under a variety of conditions.

Students read about what a plant needs to grow and conduct experiments related to plant needs.

Students will read about various ways to grow plants without soil, design and conduct experiments and explore root words and affixes related to the different growing methods.

The student will research and grow a plant and present findings orally.

Students construct a model of a plant that grows from a bulb.

Students will read about the practice of grafting trees and plants and learn how it benefits production. Students will conduct a grafting experiment with tomato plants.

Students will learn how seedless watermelon were developed and model the process of mitosis and meiosis in watermelons, using jelly beans.

Students make the connection between seeds and trees by gathering and planting acorns.

The student will play a game demonstrating variables that affect the food supply.

• Wheat Lessons and Resources

• Wheat Lessons and Resources

• Wheat Lessons and Resources

• Wheat Lessons and Resources

Students will learn about different kinds of peas that grow in Oklahoma. Students will identify the parts of the vegetables we eat as root, fruit or leaves. Students will use peas in pod for a variety of math activities. Students will compare and contrast different versions of the story "The Princess and the Pea." Students will grow peas.

Students will read about vegetables and answer comprehension questions, write a sentence about vegetables, read Tops and Bottoms, by Janet Stevens, and create their own Tops and Bottoms gardens. Students will sort and categorize vegetables by parts (leaves, seeds, flowers, fruit, stems or roots). Students will plant a classroom garden and harvest vegetables. Students will create a garden journal and decorate it with vegetable prints. Students will measure, sort and weigh vegetables and classify them by geometric shape.

Students will read a dramatic story about the Russian plant breeder, Nikolai I. Vavilov, who faced starvation during World War II to protect a valuable collection of seed potatoes and other seed crops. Students will learn about present-day seed banks and their importance in maintaining and improving crops. Students will experiment with seed germination and record their observations.

Students will practice and review place values, using seeds as manipulatives.

Students take a walk wearing socks over their shoes to learn how some seeds travel.

Students will create models of sunflowers and use them to demonstrate how plants grow in relation to light while learning about phototropism. Students will create sunflower paintings similar to Vincent van Gogh's famous Sunflowers painting. Students will practice recognizing similes while reading poetry. Students will learn what plants need to grow by listening and responding to the story of a sunflower. Students will write facts about the life cycle of a sunflower.

Students compare insect relationships according to their symbiosis class—parasitism, commensalism, mutualism.

Students will read about Thomas Jefferson's efforts to find plants that would grow well in the new country. Students will taste and research unfamiliar fruits and vegetables, learn about Jefferson's instructions to Lewis and Clark and follow some of his instructions to explore a defined local area, experience successes and failures by growing a variety of plants from seed, discuss the pros and cons of introducing new plants to an ecosystem.

Growing fern from fern spores.