All About Plants for Kids

What are plants?

They are:

• flowers 
• trees 
• vegetables 
• algae 
• lichens 
• mosses 
• ferns

Plants Lesson Plans

• 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