Make a poster with pictures and
information on poisonous plants.
Make a poster with pictures and
information on plants that are used as medicines.
Place celery in a tall glass with
red food coloring. Notice after several days that the red food coloring is
visible in the celery and may even reach its leaves, demonstrating the transport
of water through the stem tubes.
Collect and press leaves. Create
a leaf identification game with your collection.
Create a webpage or album of the
plant life in your yard or your neighborhood. Tell why you think the sort
of plant life is present in your yard or neighborhood.
Make a chart of roots, stems and
leaves that are edible.
Make a chart of the different
parts of a flower.
Soak a bean seed. Carefully take
it apart and note the embryo, seed leaf and food areas in the seed.
Make a chart illustrating plants
that are monocots and those that are dicots.
Plant several different seeds.
Keep a spreadsheet of their rate of growth.
Plant seeds in several different
pots and give each various amounts of water. Chart their growth on a spreadsheet
against the amount of water given each plant.
Place a plant in sunlight and
another in a dark area such as a closet over a week. Observe the differences
in the two plants and write those differences or chart them.
Take pictures or draw various
trees that are angiosperms and those that are gymnosperms and note the differences
in each type.
Create a pictionary of plant words.
Look at a cross section of a tree
stump and see if you can determine the age of that stump.
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