After lessons on Basic Needs and Wants

K.4B ask and respond to questions about texts read aloud

K.9 Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about the author's purpose in cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.

1) Create an anchor chart with a plant in the middle and have students popcorn out what they know about a plant before starting - write words around the outside then fill in the words at the end of the week to double check for understanding (needs- water, soil, and light. Parts - seed, roots, stem, leaves, flower/fruit)

2)  We Plant a Seed

To instruct us on the lifecycle of a plant

3 things need to grow: soil, water, and light

Plant life cycle

Ask questions like why would the author write a book about plants? Telll be supporting details from the story as to why you think that. What questions do you have.

Ask students what a plant needs to survive and make an anchor chart with their answers. If not already there.

K.5C identify and sort pictures of objects into conceptual categories (e.g., colors, shapes, textures)

3)         Have students review steps to planting a seed with a partner or whole group.

Introduce vocabulary term: Algorithm - steps to follow, like a recipe and relate back to steps to follow to plant a seed.

4)  Plant cycle sort Google Drawing or Code.org printable   Answer Key  (assign in google classroom make

each student a copy).

         Find the items that don’t belong and sort separately from

Google Drawing - adds click and drag skills, students will click on assisnment and turn it in.

K.10B identify basic parts of plants and animals

K.10D observe changes that are part of a simple life cycle of a plant: seed, seedling, plant, flower, and fruit

5) Plant seeds of their own Seeds - reveiw steps and watch this video: then start planting

Soil

Pots - milk cartons, water bottles cut in ⅓-½

Water can/bottle

Window sill

Follow algorithm - steps in the process

1. Put soil in pot
2. Poke hole in the soil
3. Plant seed
4. Cover seed
5. Water seed
6. Place in sunlight

Have students document the growth of the plants, how it looks as it grows, length, and identify parts (seed, roots, leaf, stem, flower and keep a picture book -draw it or take pics and put into Google Dr)

K.10C identify ways that young plants resemble the parent plant

6) Use pictures of the adult plant to match with the seedlings once they start growing (keep seed packet or print out pictures of parent plant). As plants grow, students can match them up and explain to a partner why they think they go together.

Seeds to use that look different:

Pumpkin                Morning glory

Beans                        Marigold

Grass                        sunflower

Flowers                Corn

7) Ending Google Drawing assessment or paper assessment students putting items in algorythmic order by themselves  Answer Key

        Informal assessments: student answers to questions on the book, student prior knowledge, student conversations with peers, Google assingments turned in, Journal recordings of planting seeds.

Day one:

Day 2:

Day 3

Day4

Plant seeds!