Science Works For Kids: 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 the 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 reproducible resource pages such as sets of picture cards, minibooks, and lab sheets to record the results of hands-on investigations This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.