Living Systems: Understandings of the living world, Earth, and space are deepened by investigating natural systems and their interactions.

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 will learn about the human impacts on bee populations as they design, test, build and observe a structure for solitary bees.

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.