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 * 1) Teacher's Domain This link is a great resource to use if additional videos are needed to present on the process of plant growth. The website is called Teachers' Domain and it has a great video called "Fruit Wrappers" that talks about different types of seeds found in fruit and how it gets from one location to another. This website is great because it not only has great videos to use, but it also has a listing of the state standards that are appropriate for the subject and grade level being taught.
 * 2) Basic Flower Structure This is a picture of the basic flower structure. It is a little more information that the students need to have right now, but it is great to use to print it and put it up on a bulletin board so that the students can look at it. Being able to see the picture up in the classroom may help when they are working on their own drawlings of a plant or flower or even when students are working in groups together. You could have them go up to the board one group at a time to look at the picture to give them ideas when they are discussing the topic. This picture came from the Northerr Ontario Plant Database which could be a great source for other flowers and plants to look up for a lesson.
 * 3) There are several books that can be used if story time is incorporated into the lesson. The following is a listing of a few books that could be use. "Plant Parts" by Louise Spilsbury. "Jack's Garden" by Henry Cole. "Seed to Plant" by Gail Gibbons. Some of these links could provide additional images to be used as well to put up on a bulletin board (such as the book cover) to show the students what books to look for during library time. Could even have the librarian reserve these books for the class so that all students have an opportunity to look at them.
 * 4) Square of Life project. This is a great project that can be done instead of one of the lesson activites already listed on the "@Lesson Plan " page. It is an activity that a substitute can do with the class. Take the students outside around the school grounds. Have them look around and identify living and non-living things. They can talk amoungest themselves while outside to see what other students think. Have them look for similarities and differences amoungest the things they find. When students are back in the classroom, have them write a report or just have each student get up in front of the class and report what they found. Down at the bottom of the page is a document that covers all the information needed to complete this activity.
 * 5) BrainPoP Jr . This is a great software program geared for children grades K-3. Under the "Parts of a Plant" section, there is a great art activity that students can do either at school or at home. Just need to print off the hand-out for each student. It is all the parts of a flower (roots, stem, leaves, and flower). They need to color the parts, cut the parts out, and paste the parts together on another sheet of paper. This activity is fun for the students to do and it helps them to learn the parts of a plant. It is a great activity to do if it say it is raining outside and you need an activity for the students to do.
 * 6) Step By Step is a great website for ideas on the topic of planting a plant. It has arts and crafts activities, book list of relevant books on the topic for their age group, songs they can sing on this topic, and even some activities that the student can do at home with their families.
 * 7) Kid Zone is another great website that can be used to find some great worksheets for the students to do. In fact there were some worksheets such as the Label the Seed Growth or Observation worksheet that can be used with the activity to be done on Tuesday when the students are planting their own seeds. These worksheets help the students tie into the observations they need to do on the plant growth over the next two weeks.
 * 8) From Seed to Plant is an actual lesson plan from the Educator's Reference Desk. It is just one of many lesson plans out there to give additional ideas and help expand on what has already been created. It give a list of materials to possibly use, songs to use, and a list of books for students to read. This specific lesson plan also gives two weeks worth of activities to do for planting seeds. You could do all of the activities or pick and choose ones to use.