Plants

The books in ScienceWorks for Kids, Grades 1-3, connect science with real life. Each book covers 8 science concepts that are supported by hands-on activities and ready-to-go resources. Each lesson relates to the National Science Education Standards.

Plants covers these concepts:

-a plant is a living thing
-plants have many parts
-each part of a plant has a special function
– fruit of a flowering plant contains seeds
-seeds contain new plants
-seeds travel in many ways
-plants change as they grow
-plants need food, water, and light to grow
-people need plants for food and oxygen
-not all plants reproduce from seeds made by flowers

A variety of engaging activities present the concepts in ways that students can understand. Each concept presented includes:

teacher directions for lessons and
reproducible resource pages such as sets of picture cards, minibooks, and lab sheets to record the results of hands-on investigations

Grades 1-3