Photosynthesis Activities and Games

Looking for photosynthesis activities?

Photosynthesis can sometimes seem like a complex topic to teach to students.

We use students’ inherent curiosity about the natural world to create understanding with these photosynthesis activities.

Below, I have some great games and activities that your students will LOVE doing in the classroom!

I also have a digital resource and a set of photosynthesis color by numbers that your students will flip for!

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Hands-on Photosynthesis Activities

Make learning fun by trying these photosynthesis games and activities. 

All of them are hands-on, so students can interact with their learning!

• Create cards for matching games on photosynthesis. Students will match element cards to cards labeled as input or output. 
• Use crafting materials to create a sun, water droplets, oxygen molecules, etc., and label a classroom plant or houseplant. Extend the activity by having students water the plant, talk to the plant to represent carbon dioxide intake, etc.
• Have students draw or paint a representation of the photosynthesis process
• Use ping pong or pom-pom balls to represent sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide. Place the balls into a two-liter bottle or milk carton where, when added, they push out pre-loaded balls labeled oxygen and repeat. This is a fun interactive photosynthesis activity.  
• Have students develop a skit to represent the plant photosynthesis process. 
• An interactive photosynthesis activity with students is putting small plants in tubes of water, plugging the opening, and watching the chemical response.  

Plants Color By Number Worksheets

You guys – these photosynthesis color by number worksheets are SO DANG FUN.

Instead of a regular old worksheet, these photosynthesis worksheets have a fun color-by-number twist.

That means that there’s a coloring reward every time students finish their worksheets!

This set comes with a boatload of photosynthesis worksheets!

This plant set also includes worksheets on plant reproduction and plant structures (soak up all that plant review!).

Click HERE to check these out!

Photosynthesis for Google Classroom

Let my Photosynthesis Activities for Google Classroom be the resource you use!

It is an excellent digital photosynthesis resource for your classroom!

It works as an online tool for teaching photosynthesis, as a formative assessment, or as a photosynthesis process review.

It has lots of interactive drag-&-drop activities that your students are seriously going to love (and you’ll love the lack of prep needed!)

Perfect for Google Classroom. Answer key included!

Click HERE to check it out!

Need even more plant activities? I also have a bundle available that covers plant adaptations, life cycles, structures, and reproduction.

Click HERE to check it out!

Don’t feel overwhelmed about teaching plant photosynthesis. I hope that you found these photosynthesis games and ideas helpful. Let me know in the comments if you use any!

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