Our Plants Mini-Unit Study + Free Resources

   This past week, M6 & L8 have been studying the life-cycle of plants. This all came about when I found a Harcourt Science textbook in an old box of school books in my garage! 

   The first chapter is How Plants Grow. Since we learn better with hands on projects & lapbooks, I decided to do a bit of research & found some great (free!) resources online to go with our unit! If you aren't familiar with lapbooks/lapbooking, check out these How-To videos. We lapbook any chance we get!

Lapbook pieces on bulletin board

Finished lapbook!

The Needs of a Plant (song for kids)

Learn About Plants - Photosynthesis

• Plants Lapbook from Homeschool Helper Online
• Flowering Plant Life Cycle Sequencing Cards from Enchanted Learning
• Photosynthesis Coloring Page from Education.com

    We also read one of my personal favorite books as a kid, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.

    Another thing we did was the colored water & flowers experiment. (No pic!?) We took 3 white flowers & put 1 each in a jar of water colored w/ food coloring (red, blue, & green). This shows how a plant carries water from the roots to the rest of the plant! Check on it the next day & notebook/journal about your findings. You can find free notebooking pages here. 

I had done this experiment before with J12 when she was in 2nd grade with celery & red food coloring. It was so neat to see it with red stripes the next day!