Spring Fever
#Teacher2Teacher  |  March 13, 2024

Spring Fever

Can you feel it? Spring is near! Extra sunlight, warmer weather, and flowers blooming are a welcome reminder that Spring is right around the corner. As educators, it is an ideal time to expand on the teaching moments around us. Your kids are likely noticing flowers are budding, the weather is getting warmer, new baby animals are around, and the day is lighter after dinnertime. By tapping into the world around us and the changing seasons, we are able to learn about the need for transition. Every season of our lives may unfold naturally, when we allow it the time to do so.


Plant Lifecycles

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Video: Plant Lifecycles

With the help of a friendly scarecrow, students identify the basic needs of plants. They learn how seeds grow into plants and that the plant goes through changes called a lifecycle. They witness each step as seeds germinate and grow into flowering plants which produce seeds that eventually germinate and grow again.

Student Application

Identify the basic needs of plants.


Learning Objectives

  1. Students will understand that a lifecycle consists of the different parts of an organism's life as it grows and changes. Lifecycles occur over and over again.
  2. Students will describe the four-stage lifecycle of a typical plant.
    1. Seeds: Most plants begin as seeds. The outside part of ...

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Supporting Activities

  1. Flowering plants vs. conifers: Obtain a large piece of butcher paper and draw a Venn diagram on it. Give one circle the heading, "Flowering Plants" and the other circle the heading, "Conifers". Write "Similarities" above the point where the two circles overlap. Tape the diagram on the board in front of the class. Have a class discussion compa...

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