**Excerpt:** Go beyond naming the parts of a plant! Explore how roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds each have an important job—and discover simple, hands-on ways to help young children understand how the parts of a plant work together.

Help young children discover the difference between living and non-living things through observation, questions, hands-on classification, and nature exploration. This simple science lesson encourages preschool and kindergarten children to think like scientists as they observe, compare, classify, and discover the world around them.