This Seeds Plants Fill in the Blanks Worksheet lets 1st graders use a word bank to complete eight sentences about how to plant a seed and help it grow. An answer key is included for quick, no-prep science practice.
Use this Importance of Farming Worksheet to help 1st Grade students sort six farm foods into plants and animals and decide what farms really give people. Answer key included for fast, no-prep science practice.
This Plant Parts We Eat Worksheet helps 1st graders match eight foods to the plant part we eat, using a helpful word box. Includes an answer key for easy, no-prep plant science practice.
This parts of a plant worksheet has 1st grade students label a flower, leaf, stem, and roots from a word box, then write about one part. An answer key is included.
This garden vegetables measuring activity has 1st and 2nd grade students measure true-size vegetable cards in inches and make a line plot. Answer key included.
This Plant Riddles Worksheet gives 1st Grade students four three-clue riddles about plants and a word box to answer them from. An answer key is included.
The Planting A Carrot Seed Sequencing Worksheet gives first grade students four carrot pictures to put in order and four sentences to finish from a word box. Answer key included, so it marks in seconds.
Plants we eat flash cards help Kindergarten to 3rd grade children match 18 foods to the root, stem, leaf, flower, fruit or seed we eat. Answer key included for quick, confident checking.
UsingFruits and Vegetables Activity, studentsplay the Stone Soup game to practice identifying and classifying fruits and vegetables.
This what does a plant need activity has kindergarten and 1st grade children sing, sort picture cards and write about sunlight, water, air and soil. Answer key included.
This cactus reading comprehension worksheet gives 1st Grade readers a short nonfiction passage about desert plants and five text-based questions to answer. An answer key is included.
UsingEarth Day Writing Activity, students brainstorm the sequence of events of a growing seed, then publish using them Earth Day themed writing.
Explore this parts of a flower activity with kindergarten to 2nd grade students. Kids order life cycle cards, spin and color flower parts, and an answer key is included.
Using Things That Grow Activity, students play UNO to practice classifying things that grow into four categories.
Using Rainforest Patterns Activity, students complete the animal patterns with animal cards to build their sequencing skills.
Using this Flower Shape Book Activity, your students can create quick and simple books about themselves or stories about flowers or Springtime.
A label a plant worksheet for 1st grade: students name the branch, leaf, stem, flower, and fruit on an apple branch, then write a sentence. Answer key included for quick checking.
Seeds, roots and growing up green
First graders learn that plants are living things with parts that each do a job. Roots drink water, the stem holds the plant up, leaves make food from sunlight and flowers make seeds. Kids learn what plants need to grow: sunlight, water, air and space. They watch a seed sprout and put the life cycle in order: seed → sprout → plant → flower. They even discover that some foods are plant parts: carrots are roots and spinach is leaves! The click moment is when a seed they planted finally pokes through the soil.
Nothing beats growing something real. These moves pair hands-on growing with simple science words.
Kids cut and glue flower parts onto paper, labeling roots, stem, leaves and petals as they go. Saying each part's job while they build connects the word to what it does.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withParts of a Flower ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Bring in a whole plant with roots, or pull a weed together. Kids point to each part, then label a plant diagram. Seeing the real thing first makes the picture make sense.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withParts of a Plant WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Plant a seed in a clear cup so roots show. Kids draw what they see every few days. At the end, they put the pictures in order and retell how the plant grew.
Why it works: showing first, practicing together, then letting kids try alone is the "gradual release" model teachers have relied on for decades (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
Try it withPlanting A Carrot Seed Sequencing WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Garden games for budding scientists.
WorksheetsRead clues and guess the plant part. "I am under the ground and drink water. What am I?"
Open Plant Riddles Worksheet →
ActivitiesMeasure garden vegetables with cubes or rulers and compare which is longest.
Open Garden Vegetables Measuring Activity →
Flash CardsFlip a card and decide: is this food a root, stem, leaf, flower, fruit or seed?
Open Plants We Eat Flash Cards →Teacher favorites right now: Seeds Plants Fill in the Blanks Worksheet, Importance of Farming Worksheet and Plant Parts We Eat Worksheet.
They learn the main parts of a plant and what each does, what plants need to grow, and how a seed grows into a plant. Many classes also explore plant parts we eat.
Sunlight, water, air, nutrients from soil and space to grow. Kids can test this by growing one plant in the sun and one in a dark closet.
Beans grow quickly and are easy to see. Grow them in a clear cup with a damp paper towel so kids can watch the roots and sprout appear.
Look at vegetables while cooking. Carrots are roots, celery is a stem, lettuce is leaves and broccoli is flowers. It turns dinner into a science lesson.
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