Life Cycle of a Flowering Plant

Nonfiction Read & Write Booklets: Science © 2010 by Scholastic Teaching Resources • Pa g e 25 My Seed Picture Life Cycle of a Draw and label the parts of a seed. Use the diagram on page 1 to help you. Flowering Plant

Write one fact you learned about the life cycle of a flowering plant.

It’s All in the Seed How do each of the following help plants grow? A plant’s life begins with its seed. The seed has everything it needs to grow into a plant. Insects: It houses the embryo, or baby plant. It also holds food for the embryo to use as it grows.

leaves

2 root Pollen sticks to Animals: the insects, which embryo carry it to other flowers. food The pollen storage fertilizes eggs in other blossoms. This is called coat pollination.

Life Cycle of a A coat protects us from the cold. Why do you Flowering Plant think seeds have coats?

1 Flowers grow on the 5 plant. The blossoms attract A new plant grows. insects.

Why do you think seeds have their own food storage?

4 Animals 3 spread the Fruit grows on the plant. seeds through Animals eat the fruit their waste. and its seeds.

From Seed to Plant

What happens to a seed after you plant it? Follow the steps to find out! blossom leaf

bud shoot leaf

seed stem

root

1 2 3 4 The seed becomes The roots grow deep The shoot is now The plant grows soaked with water. into the soil. a stem. taller and stronger.

The embryo breaks The shoot breaks More leaves grow The buds open into though the seed coat. through the soil. from the stem. blossoms.

This is called Leaves grow from Buds appear on germination. the shoot. the plant.

3 4 Extension Activity Nonﬁction Read & Write Booklets: Science © 2010 by Scholastic Teaching Resources U : 25 ❉ Activate Prior Knowledge: Introduce the My Seed Picture Life Cycle of a Draw and label a seed. Use the diagram Life Cycle of a Flowering Planton page 1 to help you. Flowering Plant booklet with a discussion that activates students’ prior knowledge. Ask what they know about the Point out that animals sometimes play topic, what they think they’ll learn when they a role in spreading seeds to other places. Write one fact you learned about a plant’s complete the booklet, and what they would like to life cycle. Then ask: What are some other ways learn about the topic.

that seeds might get spread around? After by ______7 sharing their ideas, have students work in ❉ Walk Through the Booklet: After introducing pairs to research different ways seeds travel. Discuss the booklet and discussing the topic, walk through students’ findings, then ask each student to write the pages together to satisfy children’s curiosity and a first person account of a seed that left its plant to clarify the instructions. Point out the writing to travel to other places. How did it travel? What and drawing prompts and explain to students that happened to it along the way? Did it get planted? although everyone is starting with the same booklet, What kind of plant did it grow into? Did its own they will each have a unique book when they are seeds leave and travel elsewhere? Encourage students finished.

Resources to tell a complete story about their travels and life as a plant. When finished, invite them to illustrate their ❉ Read, Write, and Learn!: Read and discuss stories and then share them with the class. the text together, pointing out vocabulary words Teaching and raising questions. Then move on to the accompanying writing prompts. Generate possible

Scholastic How to Use The Booklet answers with students. Encourage students to write © in complete sentences. Talk about what they learned This booklet can be completed as homework or from a particular section. Were they surprised about Science during class. Before students begin, walk them through something they learned? Do they want to know more each page so that they clearly understand the writing about a particular topic or piece of information?

Booklets: prompts and any challenges in the text, such as charts or diagrams. If students need additional support, guide ❉ Share: At various points in the bookmaking

Writing them as they work on each section of the booklet. You process, have students share their written responses & might have students complete the booklet over the course with their classmates. Draw attention to the

Read of several days, working on a few pages at a time. similarities and differences in the responses.

Tip: You may want to have Nonfiction How to Assemble the Booklet students fill in their booklets It works well to assemble the booklets together as a class. You might make before stapling them. This way one in advance to use as a model when introducing the booklet to students. the center pages will lie flat while they write in their responses. Directions:

1 Print the booklet. 3 Fold each page in half along the solid line.

2 Make double-sided copies 4 Place the pages in of each page on standard numerical order Title Page 8 1/2-by 11-inch paper. and staple along the spine.