Times and Seasons
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Subject Area: Science | Grade Level: 3
Lesson Length: 15 minutes or less
Keywords/Tags: Science, Life, Plants, Flowers
Lesson Description: In this lesson, students will learn how to predict the responses of plants to various stimuli, like heat, light and gravity.

  • SC.3.L.14.2 Investigate and describe how plants respond to stimuli (heat, light, gravity), such as the way plant stems grow toward light and their roots grow downward in response to gravity.
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Video : SC.3.L.14.2 Times & Seasons
Instructions: Please watch the following video as many times as needed before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of the video is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this video content.
Description: Learn about how the different seasons affect plant growth.
Quiz : Times and Seasons Quiz
Instructions: Please complete this quiz by choosing the correct answer for each question. You can take this quiz as many times needed.
Question #1
True or False: Plants can survive with any amount of sunlight.
Question #2

In what direction do plants grow?

Question #3
If a lamp was placed next to a plant, would the plant grow towards the lamp?
Question #4

A plant needs all these things except for what to survive?

Question #5
What would happen to a plant if a heat lamp was placed next to it?
Question #6
True or False: In the summer, leaves will be a rich, green color.
Question #7
What are some of the colors that leaves tu in the fall?
Question #8
True or False: Plants always die in the winter.
Question #9

What happens to plants during the winter?

Question #10
Are vegetables good to grow all year long?
Description: Students will be tested on how the different seasons affect plant growth.
Resources : Resources
Instructions: Please see additional external resources below. Feel free visit each link to learn more about this lesson.
Plant Responses
This website gives students a much more advanced lesson. It describes plants responses to different stimuli and gives the technical names of what these responses and stimuli are.
National Geographic: Seed to Plant by: Kristin Baird Rattini
This video is a read aloud of the book Seed to Plant by Kristin Rattini. This book is a national geographic kids book that describes how plants grow from a seed to a plant.
K-5 Science for Kids- Tappity
This app gives kids hundreds of lessons and videos to watch to better understand what they’ve learned in class.
Description: Use these resources to learn more about plants, times and seasons.