Medicinal Plants | Plants and People

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Questions and Prompts for Educators

Check for Understanding

• What are some plants that Indigenous people use as medicine?

Take It Further

• Why are plants important in the work of scientists who develop medicines?

Create

• Draw or describe your own medicinal garden. What plants would you include in it? Why?

Make a Personal Connection

• Are there any plants that you use to help you feel better?
• Can you think of other ways plants might help you feel better?

Next Generation Science Standards: Disciplinary Core Ideas

• LS2.B: CYCLES OF MATTER AND ENERGY TRANSFER IN ECOSYSTEMS
  How do matter and energy move through an ecosystem?
• PS1.A: STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF MATTER
  How do particles combine to form the variety of matter one observes?