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Steady Signs for the Seed Rows

Compare garden sign designs and use plant roots and a turtle shell as models for signs that stay up and keep their paper flat.

Grade 1ScienceInteractive · Printable

Aligned to1-LS1-1

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  • Single worksheet
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  • 1 NGSS standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 13 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 1
Subject
Science
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer, Drawing

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students connect plant roots and a turtle shell to the ways these outside parts help living things survive.
  • Students compare test results to choose parts for a garden sign.
  • Students design a sign using ideas from plant and animal parts.

How to use

Read the text and prompts aloud. Help students read the two graphs, then let them compare designs and draw a sign that uses both nature ideas.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

1-LS1-1

Use how plants and animals use their outside parts to survive to design a solution to a human problem.

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Steady Signs for the Seed Rows

Use ideas from nature to choose a garden sign design.

A Garden Problem

Listen to the text. Think about parts that could help a sign.

Signs for the Seed Rows

The school garden has paper signs that show where seeds were planted. Wind tips some signs over and bends the paper on others. The class wants signs that stay up and keep their paper flat.

The class looks at nature for ideas. A plant's roots branch out through the soil. In wind, its stem sways, but its roots stay in place. A box turtle pulls its head and legs under its hard shell when danger is near. The shell covers its soft body. The children will use cardboard to model helpful parts. They will not use real roots or shells.

1.
Wind pushes a plant. How do its branching roots help?
  • A. They help the leaves catch more wind.
  • B. They help the stem reach more light.
  • C. They help hold the plant in the soil.
  • D. They help cover the plant's soft leaves.
2.
Match each outside part to the way it helps the living thing.
  1. A plant's branching roots
  2. A box turtle's hard shell
  1. A. Shields a soft body from danger
  2. B. Holds a plant in the soil

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