Plant Anatomy
Grade Level: 1
Suggested Order: Week 5
Suggested Time: 1 hour
Lesson Type: Final Project (Medical Sciences and Wellness)
Overview
Students will learn about the parts of plants, including the functions of flowers. Students will
create miniature models of a particular species of their choice.
Vocabulary
- Roots
- Stem
- Leaves
- Photosynthesis
- Flowers
- Pollination
- Buds
- Botany
Objectives
- Students will learn about a wide variety of plant species.
- Students will learn the anatomy of plants.
Required Project Materials
- Copies of poem to take home (see below)
- Various types of live plants
- Clay and craft items to build models
- Wire
- Scissors
- Glue
Multimedia Resources
Optional Multimedia Resources
Before the Lesson/ Background Information
The Lesson
- Allow students to inspect plants and name the parts of the plants.
- Go through each vocabulary term. Read through the texts provided.
- Ask students what plants need to grow?
- Ask students if they remember what types of plants they eat?
- Show some pictures of vegetables, fruits, leafy greens, etc.
- What way did they eat them? Raw, cooked, in soup etc
- Teach and sing the Little Brown Seeds song.
- Students will use the materials provided to build models of plants. Each student or team will
choose a different species to model.
- Exhibit the models at the end of the week.
Little Brown Seeds
Little brown seeds so small and round,
are sleeping quietly underground.
Down come the raindrops,
sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle.
Out comes the rainbow,
twinkle, twinkle, twinkle.
Little brown seeds way down below,
up through the earth they
grow, grow, grow.
Little green leaves come one by one.
They hold up their heads
and look at the sun.