Garden Lessons: Plant Parts- Part 5: FLOWERS! (3rd Grade)

 
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Grade(s): 3rd

Lesson Objective(s): Students learn all about flowers and their function in the plant

Ohio Curriculum Standard: Individuals of the same kind differ in their traits and sometimes the differences give individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing; Organisms have different structures and behaviors that serve different functions.

Supplies Needed

  • “Plant Parts” Workbooks

  • Plants coloring pages

  • scissors

  • glue

  • Pencils

  • plates

  • Chamomile tea

  • Lavender tea

  • pictures of: lavender flowers, lavender plant, chamomile flowers, chamomile plant

  • Books about herbalism

  • Electric kettle

  • 2 large pitchers

  • Stirring spoons

  • honey

  • “teacups” or cups for trying tea

  • Several large, colorful sheets or tablecloths

  • Poster of Plant Parts (label as go along)

  • hand sanitizer

  • Harmonica


Introduction (5 mins):

  • Put tables together like a “tea party”

  • Get out Plant Parts workbooks. Review: What plant part did we learn about last week? What does that plant part DO?

    • Using students’ explanation, write class description of “LEAVES” on poster

  • the next part of the plant we’ll be learning about are the FLOWERS

Activity (20 mins):

  • Students read paragraph about flowers along with teacher

    • Give students a few minutes to do the fill-in-the-blank part of the booklet

    • ask after: what would happen if we cut off the flowers of the plant? What might happen if the flowers gets damaged?

  • Tea demo:

    • Show students photos of chamomile & lavender flowers/plants

      • has anyone ever tried tea made from these plants?

    • Pass around a tea bag of each: what do they smell like?

    • Have students help pour honey & lavender tea bags & hot water in one pitcher, chamomile, lavender & honey into the other

  • While tea steeps: what FLOWER vegetables do we eat or use?

    • Students can cut out examples from their coloring pages & color them (maybe go through the items as a class first, circling the items we need to cut out for the “FLOWER” section)

    • encourage them to think of other flowers we eat- draw them in the workbook!

  • Everyone can try the tea- discuss what they like about it

  • If time at end: discuss, what do people use lavender/chamomile for?

Garden LessonsTeresa Woodard