Native Flowers of Indiana

MATH

Included in this guide:

• Native Flower Fractions worksheet

• The Native Flower Garden coordinated grid

worksheet and map

• Blank garden map coordinate grid

Additional Ideas:

• Create bar, line, or pie graphs from information

in the booklet, such as by color or size

• The fractions worksheet can instead be done for

percentages

• Draw a garden given a set area or perimeter.

How many ways can it be done?

• “Create your own story problem” in groups or

individually, trade and solve.

STEM

Included in this guide:

• Choose 3 plants for pioneer garden prompt

• Design Your Own Native Flower worksheet/

writing prompt

Additional Ideas:

• Go on a nature walk to look for native owers

• Go on a sensory scavenger hunt. For example,

“nd a plant that feels soft”.

• “Dissect” a ower to talk about the parts of a

ower

• Keep a plant journal - sketch the plant they see

and write down what, where, and when they

saw it.

• Use crayons to make rubbings of leaves

Native Flowers of Indiana

Resources, Ideas, and Teaching Suggestions

Thank you for your interest in the Common Native Flowers of Indiana booklet. The booklet was designed

with grades 3-5 in mind, but will be found enjoyable by readers of all ages! This guide is intended to be used

in conjunction with the booklet and contains web links to additional resources, ideas that can be imple-

mented in and out of the classroom, and lesson ideas for ELA, Math, and STEM. Please feel free to share all

materials with anyone you think might enjoy them. Further free materials and booklets can be found on my

website at https://www.shawnpsullivan.com/NativeIndiana. Enjoy!

ELA

Included in this guide:

• Writing a Native Flower Cinquain

• Comparing Native Flowers venn diagram

• Design Your Own Native Flower worksheet/

writing prompt

• Two blank writing prompt worksheets

• Comprehension Worksheet

• Vocabulary Worksheet

• Vocabulary Quiz

Writing Prompt Ideas:

• Imagine if all owers were 20 feet tall. Describe

what life would be like.

• Write about your favorite native ower.

• Imagine you were a ower for a day. Describe

what the day would be like.

• Write a poem titled, “If I were a ower...”

• Write a letter to your local parks department to

persuade them of the importance and need to

plant more native owers in your local parks.

• Write a story titled, “The Special Flower”

Additional Literature Connections:

• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

• Trees Leaves, Flowers and Seeds: A Visual

Encyclopedia of the Plant Kingdom by DK,

Smithsonian; isbn: 9781465482426

• From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons; isbn:

9780823410255

• Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed

a Neighborhood by Tony Hillery; isbn:

9781534402317

Additional Teaching Resources

• Contact your local county Purdue Extension ofce to see about having a master gardener come talk to

your class. https://extension.purdue.edu/about#counties

• The Indiana Native Plant Society has an informative website as well as sponsors “Letha’s Youth Out-

doors Fund”, which provides nancial support for educational trips to experience nature for school and

non-prot youth groups. https://indiananativeplants.org

• Don’t print the cover and instead buy “seed paper” and have the students create their

own cover for the book. When done, they can plant the cover and it will grow owers!

https://www.botanicalpaperworks.com/catalog/seed-paper/8-5x11/0175/seed-paper-package

Native Flower Cinquain

A cinquain is a poem that follows a ve-line pattern. Choose a ower from your Common Flowers of

Indiana booklet and use what you learned to write a cinquain about that ower.

Choose a Flower

Write a Cinquain About Your Flower

1. What ower did you pick? ______________________________________________

2. What are some adjectives that describe the ower? ______________________________

__________________________________________________________________

3. What are some things the ower does? _____________________________________

__________________________________________________________________

4. What makes this ower special? __________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________

5. What do you like best about this ower? _____________________________________

__________________________________________________________________

6. What are some synonyms or words that relate to owers? _________________________

__________________________________________________________________

_________________

(ower’s name)

_________________

,

_________________

(two adjectives describing the ower)

_________________

,

_________________

,

_________________

(three action words)

_______________________________________________________

(four-word phrase about the ower)

_________________

(synonym or related word)

Native Flower Cinquain

_________________

,

_________________

,

_________________

,

_________________

_______________________________________________________

_________________

by

_________________

Comparing Native Flowers

_________________

(ower 1)

_________________

(ower 2)

Design Your Own Native Flower

A native ower is important to the environment because it can provide food or shelter

for birds, animals and insects. Design your own native ower in the box below, then

describe your ower and what makes it an important part of the environment.

Design Your Flower:

Describe Your Flower:

______________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________

Name: _____________________

1. Which ower looks like it is bleeding when you cut its stem or a leaf? _______________

2. Which ower can be used to treat pimples? _______________

3. Which ower will gold nches perch on to eat its seeds in late summer? _______________

4. Which ower is used to make insect repellent? _______________

5. Leaf-eating insects and animals don’t like the smell of what? _______________

6. Some plants have sticky hairs growing on their stems. Why? ________________________

_______________________________________________________________

7. Some plants have hairs inside their owers. Why? _______________________________

_______________________________________________________________

8. Why are the leaves of some plants splotchy instead of a solid color? ___________________

_______________________________________________________________

9. Before it was a state, Indiana was covered in plants. Why is it not anymore? ______________

_______________________________________________________________

10. Why are native plants important to the environment? _____________________________

_______________________________________________________________

Native Flowers of Indiana

Comprehension Worksheet

Native Flowers of Indiana

Vocabulary Worksheet

1. ____ An underground stem that grows outwards

from the parent plant and grows new roots

and new plants.

2. ____ The female part of a ower that traps pollen. It

is usually hairy or sticky.

3. ____ A leaf that has several different parts

connected to a single stem.

4. ____ A thick, sticky substance that some plants

make. It is much thicker than normal sap.

5. ____ A group of tiny owers and their rays that

appear to be a single ower when looked at

from a distance.

6. ____ Plants that are naturally found in an area.

7. ____ A swollen part of the stem formed underground

by some plants to store nutrients for the winter.

8. ____ The parts of a compound leaf.

9. ____ The male part of the ower that makes pollen.

10. ____ A kind of ower that looks like a ower petal.

A. compound leaf

B. corm

C. ower head

D. native plants

E. leaets

F. pistil

G. ray

H. resin

I. rhizome

J. stamen

Match the denition to the vocabulary word.

Native Flowers of Indiana

Vocabulary Quiz

Name: _____________________

1. The parts of a compound leaf:

A) leaets

B) corm

C) ray

D) stamen

2. A group of tiny owers and their rays that appear to be a single ower:

A) rhizome

B) native plants

C) compound leaf

D) ower head

3. A kind of ower that looks like a ower petal:

A) ray

B) stamen

C) corm

D) ower head

4. A leaf that has several different parts connected to a single stem:

A) compound leaf

B) resin

C) leaets

D) pistil

5. The female part of a ower that traps pollen. It is usually hairy or sticky:

A) stamen

B) pistil

C) corm

D) ray

6. A thick, sticky substance that some plants make, thicker than normal sap:

A) ray

B) stamen

C) rhizome

D) resin

7. The male part of the ower that makes pollen:

A) pistil

B) rhizome

C) resin

D) stamen

8. A swollen part of the stem formed underground by some plants:

A) compound leaf

B) rhizome

C) corm

D) stamen

9. An underground stem that grows outwards to grow new roots and new plants:

A) pistil

B) rhizome

C) ray

D) resin

10. Plants that are naturally found in an area:

A) native plants

B) ower head

C) stamen

D) leaets

Native Flower Fractions

1. What fraction of the owers in the Common Flowers of Indiana

booklet are purple?

2. What fraction of the owers attract butteries?

3. What fraction of the owers can grow over 3 feet tall?

4. What fraction of the owers like to grow in the shade?

5. You nd a dozen black-eyed susans growing in a garden. What num-

ber is 1/4 of the owers?

6. While walking in the city park, you nd a crimson-eyed rose mallow

plant that has 15 blooms on it. What number is 1/3 of them?

7. You notice 9 swamp milkweed plants growing in a ditch by the side of

the road. What number is 2/3 of them?

8. You visit a orist to buy owers for your mom. The orist has a dozen

purple coneowers. You ask to buy 3/4 of them. How many did you

buy?

9. A farmer has goldenrod growing in his eld. He gives you 12 of them.

You give 3 of them to your teacher and then give 1/3 of them to your

mom. How many owers do you have left?

10. Create your own fraction problem.

1 5

5

3

7

9

2

6

4

8

10

1

Goldenrod

Fire Pink

Bloodroot

Blue False

Indigo

Aster

The Native Flower Garden

1. Aster __________

2. Bloodroot __________

3. Blue False Indigo __________

4. Fire Pink __________

5. Goldenrod __________

6. Plant a Black-Eyed Susan at (8, 4). Label it BES.

7. Plant a Purple Coneower at (4, 3). Label it PC.

8. Plant a Buttery Weed at (1, 2). Label it BW.

9. Plant a Mountain Mint at (9, 7). Label it MM.

10. Plant a Foxglove Beardtongue at (3, 8). Label it FB.

You have decided to plant a native ower garden to attract and provide food for bees

and butteries throughout the seasons. You have already planted some owers, but

would like to plant more. To assist you with your design, you have created a map of

your garden. List the ordered pairs for each existing plant, and plot the points on the

coordinate plan for each ower you will plant.

List the ordered pair for each ower below:

Plot and label the following points:

1 5

5

3

7

9

2

6

4

8

10

1

The Native Flower Garden

__________________________________________________________________________

Imagine you are a pioneer in the land that will one day become the United States of

America. You live in the wilderness in a log cabin. You are going to plant a garden, but

can only afford three types of owers. What native owers do you choose, and why?

Native Flowers of Indiana

Answer Key

Comprehension Worksheet

1. Bloodroot

2. Wild Bergamot

3. Purple Coneower

4. Dense Blazing Star

5. Mint

6. To keep crawling insects from eating it.

7. The hairs gets caught on the hair of an insect, causing the stamens to bend and stick their pollen onto

the insect.

8. The splotches help hide the plants in the dead leaves of the forest oor from hungry, color-blind animals.

9. Growing cities have had to clear land so we can have places to live, and farmers have had to clear even

more land so they can plant food for us to eat.

10. Native plants are good food and shelter to wildlife. They are also used to the weather, so we don’t have

to water or fertilize them very much.

Vocabulary Worksheet

1. I

2. F

3. A

4. H

5. C

6. D

7. B

8. E

9. J

10. G

Native Flower Fractions

1. 8/20 (2/5)

2. 16/20 (4/5)

3. 13/20

4. 4/20 (1/5)

5. 3

6. 5

7. 6

8. 9

9. 6

10. Answers will vary.

Native Flower Garden

1. (6,2)

2. (5,6)

3. (7,8)

4. (2,6)

5. (1,7)

6. see map

7. see map

8. see map

9. see map

10. see map

Vocabulary Quiz

1. A

2. D

3. A

4. A

5. B

6. D

7. D

8. C

9. B

10. A

1 5

5

3

7

9

2

6

4

8

10

1

Goldenrod

Fire Pink

Bloodroot

False Indigo

Aster

BES

PC

BW

FB

MM