Plants covers these concepts: - a plant is a living thing - plants have many parts - each part of a plant has a special function - the fruit of a flowering plant contains seeds - seeds contain new plants - seeds travel in many ways - plants change as they grow - plants need food, water, and light to grow - people need plants for food and oxygen - not all plants reproduce from seeds made by flowers A variety of engaging activities present the concepts in ways that students can understand. Each concept presented includes: - teacher directions for lessons - reproducible resource pages such as sets of picture cards, minibooks, and lab sheets to record the results of hands-on investigations