National Standards for Grades 3 – 7

Design and carry out investigations to discover the world of plant growth, including the variety in plant parts, plant needs, and what plants will do to meet their needs. It’s the perfect gift for your developing botanist!

Do you know what plants need to grow? The Accelerate level Science Unlocked curriculum kit How’s it Growin’? is anengaging experience providing several easy plant science experiments and STEM activities for a developing botanist.

Students will learn about the plantlife cycle by growing seeds, the resources a plant needs to survive, and to what lengths a plant will go to get to those resources. Additionally, students will demonstrate seed germination by growing and testing a series of plants to see if their newfound knowledge is true! The kit includes afull-color student curriculum workbook and detailed teacher guide, with detailed step-by-step instructions for six activities designed to engage your students in studying a plant’s required resources. Your student’s experience has inquiry-based activities and assessments designed to enhance your student’s understanding of the resources a plant requires to grow and survive. This kit will take just minutes to set up, butprovides over 8 hours of learning, lesson plans, and fun science experiments!Both the teacher and student can jump right in, following the student curriculum workbook and teacher guide.

In this kit, the student will engage in these fun activities:

1. Observing a phenomenon in plant growth
2. Plant seedsand design their own maze for a plant to grow through
3. Use a number of seeds to grow a set of plants to use for multiple activities throughout the kit
4. Organize leaves based on their venation, shape, and edging to determine possible ecosystems the leaf’s plant would be found in
5. Test and observe respiration of a leaf
6. Sample the impact of a leaf on water flow
7. Set up and test the true necessity of the three resources a plant needs – sunlight, water, and air
8. Create a test using the scientific method and journaling to discover the phenomenon of a plant growing through a maze.

This kit comes with a full-color teacher guide and a reproducible student workbook. Use this How’s it Growin’? kit to answer questions such as:

• Why do plants needlight, water, and air to survive?
• What is the relationship between carbon dioxideand plants?
• Can an artificial lightsource be used in seedgermination?
• To what lengths will a plant go to obtain the necessary resources for growth and survival?
• What is plant respiration?
• How do photosynthesis and phototropism work?

Need additional Student Workbooks?

Buy an extra student workbook for How’s it Growin’ activities. This student workbook allows multiple students to be able to work through the lessons in the complete How’s it Growin’? kit.

Note:This student workbook is not a standalone item. It is intended to be purchased and used alongside the Science Unlocked kit, How’s it Growin’?. The workbook does not include any of the lab materials needed to complete the experiments.