Plants for Kids & Teachers

What are plants?

They are:

flowers
trees
vegetables
algae
lichens
mosses
ferns

• Match the seed to the Plant
  Interactive activity

• The Mighty Sprout Project
  How to grow wheat

• Plants and Our Environment - 4/5
  Learn about how plants grow and their relationship to animals. Activities. Grade 4.

• The Great Plant Escape - 4/5
  4 and 5 Grade. introduce students to plant science and increase their understanding of how foods grow. Activities enhance student's math, science, language arts, social studies, music and art.

• Why do Plants have flowers?
  Find out yourself.

• Seeds of Life
  What is a seed? Good site to learn about it.

• The Tomato Plant
  Learn about the tomato plant, the anatomy and more. Descriptive with many diagrams. Great page

• Kinder Garden
  An introduction to the many ways children can interact with plants and the outdoors. K-Elementary. 3/5

• Plants And Our Environment
  A website about plants. Facts with illustrations.

• Swan's Pumpkin Farm
  Fun facts and activities for kids, word serach, trivia about pumpkins. 4/5

• Pollination of Plants by Insects
  Facts and links to other very interesting topics on insects.

• Tree Kit Student
  Good lessons about trees. Facts and illustrations. Grades K-3. 5/5

• Trees
  Learn how trees adapt to survive. Good simple information.

• Why do leaves change color in the fall?
  by Science made Simple. Read about it. Good site.

• How do trees carry water from the soil around their roots to the leaves at the top?
  Clearly, they are fighting gravity--so how do they do it?

• How do large trees, such as redwoods, get water from their roots to the leaves?
  Here are the explanations from Ham Keillor-Faulkner who is a professor of forestry at Sir Sandford Fleming College in Lindsay, Ontario