STANDARD: Describe the life cycle of plants including seed, seed germination, growth, and reproduction

Elizabeth
Standard: Describing the role of plants in a food chain.
Objective: Students will create a drawn diagram demonstrating the role of plants in the food chain
representing at least 4 levels of the food chain accurately.
Carly
Standard: Identifying how bees pollinate flowers.
Objective: The students will label the parts of the bee and the flower and briefly identify how the bees
pollinate the flower with 100% accuracy.
Alura
Standard: Identifying photosynthesis as the method used by plants to produce food.
Objective: The students will create a photosynthesis model that explains how food is produced listing all
the steps with 100% accuracy.

Content: Elizabeth
The parts of a plant
Features of different types of plants
o Evergreen features
o Deciduous features
o What is Flowering
o What is non-flowering
How plants pollinate
o Self-pollination
o Cross-pollination
Process of photosynthesis
o Produces glucose and starch
Parts of the bee
Why bees pollinate
What part of the bees and plants are used in pollination
What other animals or outside sources help to pollinate plants
What is the roll of plants in the food chain
o Everyone depends on plants
Directly
Indirectly
o Second level in food chain (Sun/Energy #1)
Learning Activities: Carly
Observing: Students will research and collect data comparing the difference between plant and
animal cells

Inferring: illustrate a picture predicting what will happen when the plant is being harmed by not
providing light, nutrients, water, and air
Measuring: students will individually grow a plant and keep a journal logging the plants growth
Communicating: As a class, the students will make a graph recording the way light, nutrients,
water, and air affect a plant
Classifying: students will go outside and classify trees according to their characteristics
Predicting: The students will predict what happens when a bee pollinates and research his or
her findings. This will be kept in a journal.

Literacy Strategies: Alura

Graphic Organizer- students will use this literacy strategy for a visual representation of the role
of plants in the food chain to better understand it. It could be used during the lesson that the
students will help fill in on the interactive board.
K-W-L chart- This literacy strategy will be used to gain an understanding of students knowledge
on photosynthesis and what they know and will have learned about how it produces food.
Problem-Solution Chart students will use this to organize the cause and effect of bees
pollinating flowers and what would happen if the bees did not pollinate the flowers.
Online Resources: Alura
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1_uez5WX1o &
http://www.catie.org.uk/images/Plant_Life_Rev01_04.swf
o Explains the steps of photosynthesis for students to successfully make their models and
how it produces food.
http://kidsgrowingstrong.org/Pollination
o This is a kid friendly site that explains how pollination happens. It supports the content
area because it lists the part of the flower and some parts of the bee.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bvMb-8BTdQ
o This is an episode of Magic School Bus that explains the life cycle of a plant and could be
used to review the standard at the end of a unit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7mr-wt97Ww
o Another Magic School Bus episodes that talks about pollination and plant life cycle.
Childrens Books: Elizabeth
Magic School Bus; Plants Seeds by Joanna Cole
From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons
What if There Were no Bees? By Suzanne Slade