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What do plants need to grow? Your students are going to love this lesson on What Plants Need To Grow. This lesson on what plants need to grow is easy to follow and fun to use and teach with. No prep, just print and teach. Your students will love the highly engaging material that shows them exactly what plants need to grow. It asks and answers the questions in the NGSS standard 5-LS1-1 “support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water”.
These activities can be used as science stations or as stand alone activities. A visually engaging powerpoint accompanies this lesson.
- Plants without Soil Reading Comprehension – students read about plants that grow without soil (air plants and hydroponics) and answer questions based on the passage.
- Activity – Do Plants Use Up Soil? Many students think that plants eat soil. In this experiment they’re going to germinate seedlings in both soil and cotton wool and observe the change in height over the course of 10 days. They’re also going to observe the levels of the soil and see that the plant doesn’t use up the soil and that the nutrients/matter must come from elsewhere.
- Activity – Do Plants Need Water to Grow? This is a lovely activity where the students can experiment with seeds to see if they’ll germinate without water.
- Draw It Activity – Photosynthesis Overview In this activity the students will draw and label their own overview of photosynthesis. I’ve included two versions of this activity one with the words and one without.
- Activity – Do Leaves Breathe? In this activity the students will experiment with leaves to see the bubbles of oxygen they release.
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