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Third Grade Students learn about the life cycle of the plants through reading and comprehension, while also learning new vocabulary. Graphs and word problems of pumpkins and animals help teach about multipication, addition, and subtraction. Reclying, the solar system, and minerals are introduced through pictures and graphs. Students also learn about the economics of buying farm grown items.

Language Arts: ELA3R2 ELA3R3

Math: M3N2 M3N3 M3D1

Science: S3CS4 S3L1 S3L2

Social Studies: SS3E3


Plant Life Cycle

If you plant a seed in the ground will it grow? If the seed has enough water, the right temperature, and has good soil, it will germinate. Germinate means to begin to grow. Roots grow down, leaves grow up and the plant gets bigger and bigger until it makes flowers.

Flowers help the plant reproduce. Reproduce means make more of its kind. How do plants reproduce? Part of the flower makes pollen. When the wind blows, or a bee or butterfly land on the flower, pollen is carried


to another part of the flower. When this happens, it is fertilized. Fertilized means it will now grow until it becomes a seed.

If you plant the new seed in the ground and it has the right conditions it will grow. The new seed germinates. A new plant will grow. It will make new seeds. The plant's life cycle goes on and on.

germinate fertilize reproduce

Direction: Answer the questions below about a plant's life cycle.

Germinate means

grow into a seed make more to begin to grow

What part of a plant helps it reproduce?

flower roots stem

Reproduce means

grow into a seed make more of its kind to begin to grow

One part of a flower makes or produces

pollen leaves stems

What can carry pollen from one part of a flower to another?

water sun the wind

Fertilized means

to grow into a seed to make more to begin to grow

Cycle means to die to go on and on


to stop

Put the following in the correct order. Use 1, 2, 3, 4.

roots grow down plant makes flowers a seed germinates stem grows up


Name:___________________ Date:_________________ Follow the directions for each one. 1. Count out 15 seeds. Take away 7 of them. How many do you have left? ____________ 2. Count out 6 seeds. Add 6 more seeds. How many seeds do you have in all? ___________ 3. Use the seeds to find out which numbers are even and which numbers are odd: a. 5 ______________________ b. 8 ______________________ c. 14 ______________________ d. 21 ______________________ e. 17 ______________________ f. 16 ______________________ 4. Make 5 groups of 2 seeds each. How many seeds are there in all? __________ 5. Make 4 groups of 3 seeds each. How many seeds are there in all? __________ 6. Count out 18 seeds. Group them by 3’s. How many groups are there? ___________ 7. Count out 20 seeds. Group them by 5’s. How many groups are there? ___________ 8. Count out 11 seeds. Take away 4. How many seeds are left? _____________ 9. Make 2 groups of 8 seeds each. How many seeds are there in all? ____________ 10. Count out 9 seeds. Add 7 more. How many seeds are there in all? ____________ 11. Count out 16 seeds. How many tens and ones are there? ________tens _______ones 12. Count out 8 seeds. How many tens and ones are there? _______tens ________ones 13. Count out 20 seeds. How many tens and ones are there? ______tens ________ones 14. Write a word problems about pumpkins or seeds below.

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