Lesson Plan 3:
Plant Identification

Ascending Levels of Intellectual Demand

Invite a local botanist to come in and talk with your class about what s/he does for a job and what role that profession plays in the community.

Students who find themselves most interested in plant anatomy and identification could collect more samples from various locations and put together a 'scrapbook' of their specimens. Sections could be divided by location or vegetation characteristics.

Teach students about photosynthesis, plant cells, and other plant growth processes.

Motivated students could search further resources to identify any unidentified specimens from their plant presses.