By: Lourdes Branch & Clara

Norales
ED. 7204T
Dr. Sharon O’Connor-Petruso
 Table of Contents
 Lesson Plans 3
 Key Concepts 4
 Definitions 5
 Lesson 2 6-11
 Lesson 4 12-17
 Lesson 6 18-24
 Filamentality Website 25
 References 26
 Lesson Plans
1. Parts of a Plant and 2. Where Seeds Come
3. How Seeds
Their Functions from and How Seeds
Grow Travel

The Life Cycle of Plants

5.The Benefits of 4. What Plants

6. Where Do Need to Grow
New Plants Plants in Our
Environment and Survive
Come From?
 Key Concepts
The Life Cycle of Plants

Key Concept 3: Describe

Key Concept 2:
Key Concept 1: Describe evidence of growth,
Describe basic
the major stages in the repair, and maintenance,
life functions
life cycles of selected such as nails, hair, and
of common
plants and animals. bone, and the healing of
living
cuts and bruises.
specimens

4.1c The length 5.1a All

4.1b Each kind of 4.2b Food
of time from living
5.1b An
plant goes through beginning of
things
organism’s
4.2a Growth is supplies the
grow,
its own stages of external the process by energy and
development to take in
growth and nutrients, physical which plants Materials
death of the plant breathe, features can
development that enable it to and animals
may include seed, is called its life reproduc
carry out life
necessary for
span.
e, and increase in
young plant, and eliminate functions in its growth and
waste. particular size.
mature plant. environment. repair.
 Definitions
 Plant: Plants are essential for any ecosystem. They
provide all the energy for the ecosystem, because
they can get energy directly from sunlight. They use
a process called photosynthesis to use energy from
the sun to grow and reproduce. They also must get
nutrients from the soil. Those nutrients get into the
soil when decomposers break down waste and dead
materials. Plants require space to grow and
reproduce.
 Life Cycle: a series of stages through which an
organism passes between recurrences of a primary
stage
 Lesson 2
Where Seeds Come
from and How Seeds
Grow
 NCTM Math Skills
Standards
 Process Standards: Representation
 Content Standards: Measurement

 NAEP Process Skills

 Scientific Inquiry: S4.2 Conduct scientific investigations using appropriate tools and
techniques (e.g., selecting an instrument that measures the desired quantity—length, volume,
mass, weight, time interval, temperature—with the appropriate level of precision)
 Technology: T4.1 Propose or critique solutions to problems, given criteria and scientific
constraints

 NAEP Science Content Standard

 L4.5: Plants and animals have life cycles. Both plants and animals begin life and develop into
adults, reproduce, and eventually die. The details of this life cycle are different for different
organisms.

 ISTE NETs Standards for Literate Students

 1. Creativity and Innovation: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge,
and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students: Apply existing
knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.
 Behavioral Objectives
Students will be able to
identify the parts of a seed
and their functions.
Students will be able to
classify and graph different
kind of seeds.
Manipulatives
Planting seeds
 Worksheet #1: Classifying Seeds
Seeds You Big Smooth Texture Rough Texture
Can Eat Seeds Seeds Seeds
Pumpkin Pumpkin Watermelon Sunflower
Sunflower Mustard Pumpkin
Sesame Watermelon
 Create a Bar Graph using the data collected and answer the following questions.
 1. Which kind of seeds has the greatest amount? Seeds You Can Eat and Big Seeds both have 3, so they have the greatest amount.
 2. Which kind of seeds has the least amount? Rough Texture Seeds
 3. Order the kind of seeds from greatest to least.
 Worksheet # 2: Parts of Seeds worksheet
 Lable the following diagram
of a seed:

 Answer the questions below.

 1. Plant seeds come from  5. The roots of a new plant take in
 roots.  sunlight.
 stems.  minerals and water. germination
 fruits and flowers.  fruit.
 None of the above.  None of the above.
 2. Some seeds are buried by  6. The leaves of a plant make
 rain.  air.
 chipmunks.  food.
 squirrels.  nitrogen.
 All of the above.  All of the above.
 3. Seeds planted in the soil need to absorb  7. When the plant is an adult, it will develop
 oil.  flowers.
 water.  seedlings.
 light.  rain.
 None of the above.  All of the above.
 4. The embryo grows by using the stored food in  8. The sprouting of a new plant is called
the  flowering
 soil.  Seedling
 seed coat.  Germination
 endosperm.  All of the above
 All of the above.
 Lesson 4
What Plants Need to
Grow and Survive
 Standards
 NCTM Math Skills
 Process Standards: Representation
 Content Standards: Measurement

 NAEP Process Skills

 Scientific Inquiry: S4.2 Conduct scientific investigations using appropriate tools and
techniques (e.g., selecting an instrument that measures the desired quantity—length, volume,
mass, weight, time interval, temperature—with the appropriate level of precision)
 Technology: T4.1 Propose or critique solutions to problems, given criteria and scientific constraints

 NAEP Science Content Standard

 L4.5: Plants and animals have life cycles. Both plants and animals begin life and develop into
adults, reproduce, and eventually die. The details of this life cycle are different for different
organisms.

 ISTE NETs Standards for Literate Students

 1. Creativity and Innovation: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge,
and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students: apply existing
knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.
 Behavioral Objectives
Students will be able to
summarize the steps they follow
in order to plant their seeds.
Students will be able to describe
what their plants need in order
to grow.
 Manipulatives
 Materials needed to plant seeds

Worksheet # 1: How to Plant a Seed
Using words from the list below, write a summary describing the steps you followed in order to successfully
plant your seeds.
after first next soon
afterward following not long after then
as soon as immediately now third
before initially on (date) until
during later preceding when
finally meanwhile second

As soon as the First thing we did Then, we placed

teacher modeled was to place four seeds into the
how to plant a cotton balls into clear plastic cup.
seed, the our clear plastic
cup.
Next, we watered Immediately, we
the cotton inside placed the cup in a
the clear plastic safe place, making
cup. sure it would
receive enough
sunlight.
Worksheet # 2: Photosynthesis

light energy
oxygen

carbon
dioxide glucose

water
light
energy carbon
dioxide water
glucose
oxygen
 Lesson 6
Where Do New
Plants Come
From?
 Standards
 NCTM Math Skills
 Process Standards: Representation
 Content Standards: Measurement

 NAEP Process Skills

 Scientific Inquiry: S4.2 Conduct scientific investigations using appropriate tools and
techniques (e.g., selecting an instrument that measures the desired quantity—length, volume,
mass, weight, time interval, temperature—with the appropriate level of precision)
 Technology: T4.1 Propose or critique solutions to problems, given criteria and scientific constraints

 NAEP Science Content Standard

 L4.5: Plants and animals have life cycles. Both plants and animals begin life and develop into
adults, reproduce, and eventually die. The details of this life cycle are different for different
organisms.

 ISTE NETs Standards for Literate Students

 1. Creativity and Innovation: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge,
and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students: apply existing
knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.
 Behavioral Objectives
Students will be able to identify
and describe the stages in the
life cycle of plants.
Students will be able to access
and locate information on the
life cycle of plants.
Video: Learn About Plants -
Life Cycle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxaELwrTChs
 Worksheet # 1:
The Life Cycle of a Plant
Label the parts of
the life cycle
diagram.
 Scavenger Hunt!
 Use the following websites to complete the scavenger hunt for the plant life
cycle. Use The Great Plant Escape to complete the majority of the scavenger
hunt. Use the fact sheet site on the BBC site to answer the rest of the questions.
Read all questions before you begin. Have fun.

Website Name Website Address

BBC Science; Activity Living http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/re

Things: Plants visewise/science/living/06_act.sh
tml
The Great Plant Escape http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/g
pe/index.html
Exploring the Secret Life of Trees Address
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/tr
ees2/index.html
 Scavenger Hunt Worksheet
 Plant Structure  In the space below draw and label a diagram of
In a complete sentence explain and give an example of an photosynthesis.
herbaceous plant? Herbaceous plants are non-woody plants.
They can be perennial, like daylilies, or annual like marigolds. 

In a complete sentence explain and give an example of a woody

plant? A woody plant is a plant that uses wood as its structural
tissue, woody plants are usually either trees, shrubs, or lianas.

 Plant life cycle

An annual completes its life cycle in one year growing season.  Draw a diagram of the life cycle of the plant.
Give one example of an annual Apple. A plant that needs two
growing seasons to complete its life cycle is a
____Biennial_________.

 What are the Parts of Plants?

This is the part of the plant that carries water and food through
the plant. __Stem__
This is the part of the plant that carries and protects the seed.
_Seed Coat____
This is the part of the plant that helps the plant to reproduce.
____Flower____
This is the part of the plant that helps to produce the seeds.  What are the four things plants need in order to grow
_Fruit__ properly? Plants need water, sunlight, air (oxygen),
This part of the plant takes up nutrients and water from the soil.
ground. __Roots___
What is the definition Photosynthesis? The process by which
green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to
synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water

Filamentality Website
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listlifecyclo.html: Our site explores resources on the life cycle of plants.
 Introduction
A plant's life cycle describes how long a plant lives or how long it takes to grow, flower, and produce new seeds. Join us
and explore the life cycle of plants, and learn the role that each plant part plays as a plant develops.

 The Internet Resources

General Information Living Things: Plants - Helping plants grow is harder than it
looks. See what they need to stay alive. Trees and Products We Get From Trees -
PowerPoint presentation that lets students know plants give us food, oxygen, clothing,
medicine and shelter.

Plants Parts and Function Exploring the Secret Life of Trees - Plants parts and function
video Part of Plants - Parts of Plants Poster

Photosyntesis MY FAVE SONG: THE PHOTOSYNTHESIS SONG - Photosynthesis song

video. Photosynthesis Poster - Visual

Traveling Seed How Seeds Travel - Power Point Presentation Parts of the Seed - Plant
seeds come from flowers and fruits in many shapes and sizes.

Life Cycle of Plants Learn About Plants - Plants Life Cycle Video

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