Identifying and Comparing Plants
TEKS Objective
Identify and compare the parts of plants.
Essential Understanding
The student knows that organisms resemble their parents and have structures and processes that help them survive within their environments.
Science Background
Plant Parts and Functions: The University of Arizona (website) – Everything you might want to know about stems, leaves, buds, roots, flowers, fruits and seeds.
Plant Parts and Functions
The University of Arizona, www.arizona.edu
Plant Parts: Missouri Botanical Garden (website) - Provides basic information on plant parts and botanical terminology, such as the difference between a fruit and vegetable.
Plant Parts
Missouri Botanical Garden, www.mbgnet.net
Plant Basics: Biology4kids (website) - Basic concepts relating to plants and how plants are classified are described.
Signature Lesson
What Parts are there to a Plant? Science NetLinks (website) - Students identify and compare parts of common food plants, such as fresh carrots, lettuce and broccoli.
What Parts are there to a Plant?
Science NetLinks, www.sciencenetlinks.com
- Supporting Lessons
- Extensions
- Assessment Ideas
- Literature Connections
- Related
TEKS - Additional Resources
Supporting Lessons
Look At Those Leaves: Science NetLinks (website) - Students compare leaves by looking at their shape and size.
Look at Those Leaves
Science NetLinks, www.sciencenetlinks.com
Plant Parts Have Different Jobs: Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center (PDF) - Use Lesson 2 (pages 5–16) to identify and compare the roles of different plant parts.
Plant Parts Have Different Jobs
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, www.wildflower.org
Parts of a Plant: Utah Education Network (website) - Children explore the parts of a plant (flower, seeds, stem, leaves, and roots) using a dandelion as an example. This activity can be conducted with any weed or other flowering plant.
Parts of Plants
Utah Education Network, www.uen.org
Beginning Forestry for Young Learners: Sorting and Classifying Leaves (website) – Students learn about different trees by sorting leaves based on their shape, size and arrangement.
Beginning Forestry for Young Learners
Sorting and Classifying Leaves, www.ecosystems.psu.edu
Elaboration Lessons and Extensions
The Life Cycle of Plants: Birmingham Grid for Learning (website) - Interactive set of activities to familiarize students with the life cycle of plants from seed growth to dispersal.
The Life Cycle of Plants
Birmingham Grid for Learning, www2.bgfl.org
Assessment Ideas
Let’s Learn About Plants and Animals: Filoli (PDF) - Assess your students ability to identify and compare the parts of a plant using the simple worksheets in activity one.
Literature Connections
From Seed to Plant. Gibbons, Gail (ISBN-13: 978-0823410255)
From Seed to Plant. Fowler, Allan (ISBN-13: 978-0516273075)
A Tree is a Plant. Bulla, Clyde Robert (ISBN-13: 978-0064451963)
The Reason for a Flower, Heller, Ruth (ISBN-13: 978-0698115590)
Growing Vegetable Soup, Ehlert, Lois (ISBN-13: 978-0152325817)
Additional Resources
Beginning Forestry for Young Learners: Sorting and Classifying Leaves (website) – Students learn about different trees by sorting leaves based on their shape, size and arrangement.
Beginning Forestry for Young Learners
Sorting and Classifying Leaves, www.ecosystems.psu.edu
TEKS Navigation
Grade 1
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