PROJECT
Goals/Objectives
TLW be able to name and label the parts of a plant
Name the needs of plants
Illustrate the stages of a plant’s growth
Understand and explain the importance of plants and gardens
Products/Assessments:
Complete a Scavenger Hunt (K-5)
Create a Kid Pix presentation showing
the stages of a plant's growth (K-5)
Write a HOW TO… create a butterfly garden (3-5)
http://butterflywebsite.com/Articles/ShowArticle.cfm?ID=517
http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/components/DG6711e.html
Sequence
events leading to creation of butterfly garden (K-2)
Create a mini-butterfly
garden (K-5)
Create a book, labeling plant parts (K-5)
Take a post-test about plant parts (see teacher resources)
Extensions
The Great Plant Escape-
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/gpe.html
Activities- http://www.123child.com/easter/flow.html
Teacher Resources:
Worksheet to label plant parts-
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/science/plants.htm
Kid
Pix
Planning Storyboard- http://library.thinkquest.org/50001/Worksheet.htm
Rubric- http://library.thinkquest.org/50001/Explore1.htm
Post-tests (plant parts)
Roots-
http://pittsford.monroe.edu/Jefferson/CALFIERI/Plants/RootsQuiz.html
Stems-
http://pittsford.monroe.edu/Jefferson/CALFIERI/Plants/StemsQuiz.html
Leaves-
http://pittsford.monroe.edu/Jefferson/CALFIERI/Plants/LeavesQuiz.html
Flowers-
http://pittsford.monroe.edu/Jefferson/CALFIERI/Plants/LeavesQuiz.html
Seeds-
http://pittsford.monroe.edu/Jefferson/CALFIERI/Plants/SeedsQuiz.html
Activities
http://www.nuttinbutkids.com/gardening.htm
http://66.33.25.222//lessons/InsideSeed.shtml
http://www.angelfire.com/ma/1stGrade/pageplants.html
http://www.danenet.wicip.org/lms/themes/plants.html
Connected Literature
http://www.123child.com/easter/flow.html
http://www.nuttinbutkids.com/gardening.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/ma/1stGrade/pageplants.html
http://www.stf.sk.ca/ps/src/tmc/p10629/p10629.htm
This lesson was prepared by Christy
Cabrera and Terrie
Hagar.
Some of the graphics provided on this page are provided by Sewdoll Web
Graphics http://webart.sewdoll.com/
and WizHat.com http://www.wizhat.com/libanimal.html.
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