Tundra Biome: Plants

This Tundra Plants Mini Unit helps students explore plants in the tundra habitat through real photographs, simple nonfiction text, and hands-on learning activities. Children learn how plants live in the tundra biome, how they are adapted to freezing and dry environments, and how plants depend on nonliving things, animals, and other plants to meet their needs.

⭐️Also included in the Tundra Biome Bundle ⭐️

This resource is designed for early childhood through early elementary science, with language and structure that supports both Montessori classrooms and traditional life science instruction. It builds background knowledge while introducing early ecosystem, habitat, and plant adaptation concepts in a clear, age-appropriate way.

What Students Will Learn

• Plants that live in the tundra biome
• How tundra plants are adapted to freezing and dry environments
• How plants depend on nonliving things such as sunlight, water, wind, rocks, and soil
• How plants interact with animals and other plants through pollination, seed dispersal, shade, and soil support
• How plants help shape and support the tundra ecosystem

⭐ Contents ⭐

• Printable Nonfiction Read-Aloud Book (17 pages)
  • Uses real photos and clear, repetitive sentence structure
  • Full-size pages (PDF) can be projected as slides or printed for whole-group read-alouds
  • Print 2 pages per sheet for a child-sized book that fits neatly on a Montessori shelf
  • Introduces essential biome concepts:
    • Tundra plants and habitats
    • Plant adaptations 
    • Interdependence between plants, animals, and nonliving things
  • Features 10 tundra plants:
    • Arctic blueberry
    • Moss campion
    • Arctic lupine
    • Arctic cotton grass
    • Arctic willow
    • Cloudberry
    • Reindeer lichen
    • Step moss
    • Pasque flower
    • Purple saxifrage
• Plant Adaptations Mini Book (Blackline)
  • Includes tracing and non-tracing versions
  • Simple sentences paired with illustrations
  • Supports handwriting, early reading, and science integration
  • Can be used for independent work, dictation, or creative extensions
• Plant Fact Cards (10 total)
  • Each card includes:
    • Real photo
    • Location
    • Key adaptation
    • Interdependence (how the plant helps its biome and how others help it)
    • Fun fact
• 3-Part Cards and Posters
  • Full-color and black-and-white versions included
  • Posters (8.5 x 11) for classroom visual reference
  • Blackline versions for coloring, booklets, or cut-apart work

🌱🌏 Part of the The Trillium Biomes Curriculum 🌎 🌱
The Trillium Biomes Curriculum supports background knowledge and vocabulary development through content-rich, coherent science and geography instruction. Children build conceptual understanding of ecosystems by exploring how living and nonliving elements interact within natural systems. Designed for developmentally appropriate, inquiry-based learning, the materials integrate science, geography, and language development while helping children develop a sense of place and connection to the natural world.

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What's the difference between a "Single User" and "School" License?
The products are identical.  If you would like to use the product in multiple classrooms within ONE SCHOOL LOCATION, please purchase the school license. Additional school licenses should be purchased for each location. The Single User license allows you to print multiple copies for use within ONE CLASSROOM or home.  Files or copies may not be distributed to other classrooms, colleagues, or friends.  Files may never be posted in a shared drive or online where they can be accessed by others.