Botany Games & Resources for Kids

Botany is just a fancy word for the study of plants. A botanist is a special kind of scientist who studies how plants grow, their different parts, the places they grow, and how they fit into life on Earth. There are many kinds of plants, and they are all important and grow in different ways. When you want to learn about botany, one of the best ways to do this is by growing plants in your backyard or in pots in your home. If you have a favorite flower, you might try growing it to learn about plants.

• Botany for Beginners: Learn botany vocabulary such as what petals, sepals, and photosynthesis are.
• What's in a Plant Name? Plants have both scientific and common names, but you will probably remember common names more easily.
• A Child's Garden: A Special Place to Grow: Choose some fun flowers to grow, such as four o'clocks, lunaria, and impatiens.
• What Plants Need: Find the right mix of light, liquid, and gases to help a plant grow in this game.
• What Parts Are There to a Plant? This lesson plan helps you learn about plants, especially the different plant parts.
• Grow Plants From Food: With a few vegetables from your refrigerator and some soil, you can start growing new vegetables in your kitchen.
• Leaf-Out Project: Adopt a tree and observe it throughout the year to watch leaves emerge, grow, and then turn colors in the autumn.
• Biology of Plants: Plants are living things, growing as they get nutrients and water and being affected by their environment.
• Soil Properties Overview: Learn about your soil with these activities that help you see how to classify the dirt.
• Kids Growing With Plant Connections (PDF): These lessons and activities will help you learn about plants, how they grow, and how to take care of them.
• What Is a Botanist? A botanist is a scientist who studies all types of plant life.
• How Does My Garden Grow? This lesson plan helps you explore how plants grow in a garden.
• Botany Basics (video): This video will show you some of the basics of how plants grow in the soil.
• Botany Facts: People need plants to survive because plants provide both oxygen and food.
• Why Plant Conservation Is Important: Humans need plants, but many plants are at risk of extinction because of things that people do.
• What Does a Botanist Do? Botanists are scientists who study how plants grow and how the environment relates to them.
• Photosynthesis for Kids: You'll learn all about photosynthesis with this lesson on how plants convert sunshine into energy.
• A Demonstration of Photosynthesis and Transpiration: This experiment will help you see how sun and air affects plants.
• How Plants Grow: This activity helps you see how plants can grow and be healthy using sunlight and water.
• Easy Plants for Kids to Grow: Try growing some plants to learn about botany!
• How to Plant Flowers: Organic Gardening for Kids: You'll just need some potting soil, containers, and seeds to grow flowers in or around your house.
• Carrot Seed Lesson Plan and Extension Activities: This fun lesson involves talking about carrot seeds and how they grow into carrots.
• Five Tips to Teach Kids How to Care for Plants: As you plan a project to grow plants, make sure you prepare the soil and plant the seeds correctly so they will grow.
• Plant Activities: If you want to learn about plants, try taking care of a plant by watering and feeding it.
• Gardening With Children: Choose interesting plants to grow as you start learning about botany, such as tomatoes, peas, snapdragons, and marigolds.
• Ten Plants Kids Can't Resist: For fun plants to grow, choose lamb's ears, butterfly weed, or hollyhocks.
• The Complete Guide to Gardening for Kids: When you learn how to garden, you'll learn about science and how to be responsible for the care of plants.
• All About Plants: Learn new words as you study plants.
• Flower Facts: As you study flowers, you'll learn about how the roots, stem, leaves, and flowers all work together to help a plant work.
• Gardening With Children: Even if you only have a little growing room, you could plant a few sunflowers to watch them grow into tall flowers.
• Your Go-To Guide for Gardening With Children: It can be a lot of fun to dig in the dirt and take care of plants so they will grow big and strong.

Written by Lily Calyx