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Thematic Focus: Plant Science Without plants, which supply food, shelter, and oxygen, people couldn't survive. Delve into the diverse world of plants to discover how plants function and how they adapt to the place they call home — with featured video clips, lesson plans, discussion guide, and activities. Resources Discussion Guide Explore how plants differ even as their basic parts remain the same. Discuss how plants change to adapt to their environments, how they attract pollinators to ensure their survival, and how they manage to disperse their seeds. Download Discussion Guide   Grades 4-6 Lesson Plan Discover the role of bees as the world's most important plant pollinator — and how they help plants reproduce. View Lesson Plan   Grades 6-8 Lesson Plan After collecting seeds and examining methods of seed dispersal, design mechanisms for dispersing common seeds. View Lesson Plan   Grades 9-12 Lesson Plan Create a timeline to trace scientific contributions to understanding the evolution of plants and how they adapt to their surroundings. View Lesson Plan   Activities Plant Science An image of a green plant with radiating leaves for use in classroom presentations and activities View Image Plant Puzzle A "Plant Smarts" crossword puzzle helps students to learn terms pertaining to plant science. Puzzle PDF Video Clips The Survival of Plants: Reproduction and Change View Video Subscribers to unitedstreaming can access the following video clips. Plant Cells — Unique Roles View Video Classification of Plants View Video How Plants Adapt View Video Store The Science of Plants Three-Pack In these three videos, explore how diverse the plant world is, and learn about the life cycle of plants — from seeds to seedlings to mature plants and back to seeds again. Even though plants can't move on their own, see how they adapt to their environments. More Info

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