Name: Linnea Pignatello Lesson: Seeds and Seed Growth

Date: 2-25-2014

Time: 8:30-9:30

Standards: - Iowa Common Core: Science as Inquiry, Identify and generate questions that can be answered through scientific investigations - Iowa Common Core: Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, process, and analyze data. - Next Generation Science Standards: 3-LS1-1. Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction and death Lesson Sequence: 1) Read From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons 2) Hold up Zucchini and have students describe the outside properties of the vegetable. - A property is something you can observe about an object. (Write on board) (Size, shape, color, texture, smell, etc.) (Have students write the observations in the Description section of the Seed Worksheet) - Cut the zucchini open and count the seeds inside the zucchini - Cut the second zucchini into slices, hand out the slices and have them take a seed out of the slice. - Have students individually observe the properties of the seed and have them write about it on the Seed worksheet. - Then have students draw the seed on one side of the drawing section and on the other side have them tape the seed down. - Students may eat the slice of zucchini if theyd like. 3) Show students the seeds that they will out in the larger seed container and have students help organize the container. - Introduce the Minisprouter. Show the beans before they were in the water and show them after theyve been sitting in the water over the weekend. - Introduce the sprouting container and show the seeds in the container. Discuss with students the placement of the container. - Record predictions in notebooks about what the seeds will sprout into

4) Have students complete the next section alone for corn. Students may be confused about the seeds being on the outside but let them work through it. - Students need to record properties of both the outside of the corn as well as the inside, which areboth! But the descriptions of the corncob as well as the kernel. Assessment: Formative assessment: Have students write on a post it note what the purpose of a seed is and collect the post it notes. Record data and reteach if necessary. Differentiation: - Due to behavioral constraints, two students needed to work under my supervision - Students can write a paragraph about zucchini using the prompt, how can you grow a new zucchini plant?