Phase: | After/Explain/Elaborate |
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Assessment Strategies: | The teacher will assess each student’s completed plant life cycle wheel to ensure the following:
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Advanced Preparation: | Approximate duration of the learning activity: 16-30 minutes Teacher Materials and Resources Interactive whiteboard and computer with internet access Flowering Plants Level 2 Text (project if using digital copy) Flowering Plants Level 1 Text (one copy for the teacher during small group intervention) Print the Life Cycle of a Plant Wheel pages on cardstock. The students will need both pages: the cover page circle and circle divided into 6 parts Brass paper fastener (one for each student) Optional: a pre-made life cycle wheel as a model for students Student Materials and Resources computer (if using the digital version of the text) crayons/markers scissors pencil Flowering Plants Level 2 Text (one copy per student if using a printed copy of the text) Flowering Plants Level 1 Text (one copy per student during small group intervention if using a printed copy of the text) Print and cut out pictures with labels to use during intervention The background knowledge and advanced preparation required for the learning activity:
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Variation Tips (optional): | Acceleration: Write a short skit: The students will create a short skit to demonstrate the stages of a flowering plant. If more than one student is finished, assign each student a role, such as a seed, sprout, flower, or fruit. The students will write dialogue for each stage and the changes that occur. Intervention: The teacher will provide intervention based on teacher observations during the partner activity and/or class discussion to order the stages of the life cycle of a plant. The teacher will work with students in small groups to review the vocabulary and stages of a life cycle of a plant. The teacher will use Flowering Plants Level 1 text to review the words seed, roots, leaves, flowers, and pollination to build on student background knowledge. The students will use pictures with labels to place them in order. |
Notes or Recommendations (optional): | Interdisciplinary Connection(s) course of study standards SC15.3.6 Create representations to explain the unique and diverse life cycles of organisms other than humans (e.g., flowering plants, frogs, butterflies), including commonalities such as birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
This lesson should be used in conjunction with Planting Vocabulary Knowledge Part 1 (before activity) and Planting Vocabulary Knowledge Part 2 (during activity). |
Keywords and Search Tags: | background knowledge, life cycle, vocabulary |