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Plants and Their Needs
Grade 2

These resources are provided for teachers to use with their students as they are teaching this unit.
Picture Resources - Flowers, Roots, Stems,Seeds, Fruit and Leaves..
 
 
If you wish to download a AppleWorks/ClarisWorks,  Word 97/98 or PowerPoint document listed below, with a PC - hold down the shift key and click on the title, with a MAC - hold down the option key and click on the title.  In both cases, you should be directed to save it directly with the name it has been given.  Navigate to the location you wish to save your document and click Save.

 

If you do not have PowerPoint on your computer, you may download a viewer for free.  It will allow you to use the slideshows below.   MAC              PC

Lesson 1  Let's Get Growing
 
First the young root appears. The skin splits and the shoot straightens, pulling the cotyledons with it The main root gets bigger and grows side roots, and the first leaves appear.

 
Downloadable Files
AppleWorks/ClarisWorks
Word97/98
PowerPoint
Laserdisc pictures
Windows on Science - Primary Volume 1 - Optical Data
 

Lesson 2  A Package for Plants
To increase the size of any picture, click/hold and select Open Image (MAC) or right click and select View Image (PC) directly on top of the picture
Lima Bean Soaked Lima Bean Skin and Split Seed Showing Cotyledons and Embryonic Shoot Lima Bean Embryonic Shoot If the picture is available in a larger format, it will open inside a new Navigator screen.

 
Downloadable Files
AppleWorks/ClarisWorks
HTML
PowerPoint
 
Poem for A Package for Plants
Investigation
(alternative to Investigation Card activity)
 

Lesson 3  Knowing They Are Growing
 
To increase the size of any picture, click/hold and select Open Image (MAC) or right click and select View Image (PC) directly on top of the picture.   If the picture is available in a larger format, it will open inside a new Navigator screen.
Downloadable Files
AppleWorks/ClarisWorks
Word97/98
PowerPoint
Evidence of Growth Record Page
 
 

Lesson 5  Plant Part Chart
 
 
To increase the size of any picture, click/hold and select Open Image (MAC) or right click and select View Image (PC) directly on top of the picture.   If the picture is available in a larger format, it will open inside a new Navigator screen.

 
Downloadable Files
AppleWorks/ClarisWorks
Word97/98
PowerPoint
Plant Part Chart
 

Lesson 6  Needs and Structures
Downloadable Files
AppleWorks/ClarisWorks
Word97/98
PowerPoint
Needs and Parts Poster

Plant Part Library
These are images to add to the Appleworks/ClarisWorks library

Plant Parts for Food Chart

 
 

Lesson 7  Plant Patrol
Downloadable Files
AppleWorks/ClarisWorks
Word97/98
PowerPoint
These are images to add to the Appleworks/ClarisWorks library
Flowers Library
 

Trees Library

 
 

Page prepared by Linda Preston, Instructional Technologist, Jefferson County Schools  Nov 2000



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