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CCSS Standards:
Plants are living sustaining resources for living things
Materials:
Teacher books
Student book(s)
Worksheets/ papers Blank papers made like small books, T chart papers, several pictures
(sun, water, scissor..etc.)
Teacher materials Teacher`s board
Technology
Other Seeds
Possible Problems and Misconceptions (What are some problems that students will face
because it is assumed that they have the previous knowledge?):
1- I will remember them about the good and bad choices by asking him\her is that a bad or
good choice?
2- I will use pictures to show how do we care for plants like water, sun and remind them about
the planting song that they knew it.
Lesson Schedule
Targeted teacher language (What will the teacher say throughout the lesson?):
Plant \flower
Roots
Seeds
Leaves
Water
Sun
Soil
why do we care for plants?
Why do we need plants?
Why we need food?
What do the plants need to grow?
Student language (What language will the students use throughout the lesson?):
Plant/Roots/seeds/petals/flower\water\sun\soil
After that, she will let the students go to the centers they prefer and figure out what
they should do there.
She will explain the centers and ask the students some questions such as why do we
care for plants?
Why do we need plants?
Why we need food?
What do the plants need to grow? She will go around the students and go to each
center if possible to observe and scaffold them. Also, she write notes( their answers)
in the assessment sheet for each student.
- Center 1: the students will classify pictures represent how do we care and don’t
care for plants. They will stick pictures (sun, water, scissor, legs walk on a
flower..etc.) in T chart papers.
- Planting center: the student teacher will demonstrate and model how we
replant\replace our plants in bigger cups that makes the plants grow better.
Some students will take their small cups and replace\replant it in big plastic
cups if their seeds grew but some of them if their seeds didn’t grow they will
replace\replant their zip lock bag plants into big cups.
- Book center: in this center the students will make their own tiny seeds book.
They will draw\write about why\how we should care for plants. They will
draw\write in small books and the student teacher will ask them about their
drawing. This center is related to the book week, so the students will encourage
to make their own book and read it through pictures and some words they
learned.
- Provocation for math: the students will count the seeds depending on the
written number on the cups.
- Provocation for unit of inquiry: seeds, soil, plants (the students will observe and
explore things by using sensory skills.
5
minutes
Close (wrap up, discussion, brief review activity or assessment):
The student teacher will ask the students to write or draw how can they
care for plants in stickers. That to assess their learning about how to care
for plants\ what do the plants need to grow.