For hands-on activities involving parts of a plant, trees, flowers, and seeds that connect science with real life, choose Plants. This book, designed with good science and easy teaching in mind, covers these concepts:a plant is a living thingplants have many partseach part of a plant has a special functionthe fruit of a flowering plant contains seedsseeds contain new plantsseeds travel in many waysplants change as they growplants need food, water, and light to growpeople need plants for food and oxygennot all plants reproduce from seeds made by flowersActivities help children practice skills in: observation, analysis, communication, making comparisons, prediction, critical thinking, and recording. Areas of study address major themes such as: change, structure, function, cycles, diversity, and cause and effect.Samples of the hands-on learning experiences:conduct experiments and record results to find out what plants need to growlook inside a seed and then make an "Inside a Seed" bookplant bean seeds in a growing bag and keep a growth logexperiment to prove that plants give off oxygenContains many reproducible, ready-to-go resources, such as record sheets, logbook forms, minibooks, and picture cards. Illustrated throughout with fun, yet accurate line art. All 80 pages perforated for easy removal.