Life Science

Discover a set of resources curated to get you ready to discuss sustainable agriculture and food security.

List of hand-on activities connected to plants

Plants have specific needs - light, air, water, nutrients, and space - to survive and reproduce.

Students develop and apply the skills of observing, comparing, contrasting, sorting and classifying, to investigate how seeds move from place to place.

Students develop and apply the skills of observing, comparing & contrasting, and communicating as they explore life cycles of familiar plants.

6 images of some seedlings sprouting as one of the stages towards full plant growth

10 images showing some stages of plant growth from planting to sprouts growing to harvesting

Students will work collaboratively to design and build a structure that will protect a seed from the elements.

Students will work collaboratively to design and build models of seeds that can travel as far as possible.

Students will work collaboratively to design and build a simple irrigation system that transports water to at least two plants from one source without leaking.