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Kindergarten · Science · Unit 11 of 11

From Seed to Plant

Seeds grow into seedlings, plants, flowers and fruit.

What your child practices

Practices the simple plant life cycle (seed, seedling, plant, flower, fruit) and noticing that young plants look like the plant they came from.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: K.13(C); K.13(D) · a plant's life cycle from seed to fruit, and how young plants look like their parent plant

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A seed grows into a seedling, then a plant.
  2. The plant grows flowers, then fruit with seeds.
  3. A young plant looks like its parent plant.

Example: An apple seed grows into…? Seeds grow into the same kind of plant. Answer: an apple tree

From Seed to Plant in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 11 of 11 in Kindergarten Science, after Rocks, Soil, Water & Air.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Bees visit which part of a plant?

    • The soil
    • The flower
    • The root
    • The seed

  2. Question 2

    A plant that grows big and makes flowers is…

    • shrinking
    • melting
    • sleeping
    • growing up

  3. Question 3

    A young cactus has…

    • feathers
    • soft fur
    • spines like its parent
    • scales

  4. Question 4

    How is a seedling different from the big plant?

    • It is a rock
    • It has no leaves ever
    • It is smaller
    • It is an animal

  5. Question 5

    Seeds need water and warmth to…

    • melt
    • freeze
    • sprout
    • turn to rock

  6. Question 6

    A bluebonnet seed grows into a…

    • oak tree
    • bluebonnet
    • sunflower
    • cactus

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