Grade 1 Unit 4
The Power of Plants
Student Work & Teacher Bright Spots
Student Notebooks
Student kept digital planting journals on book creator!
SCIENCE NOTEBOOKS: Students recording the growth of their radish in their Science notebooks
Charts
Power of Plants Phenomena Wall
Art
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We had a powerful plant picnic! Can you try a stem, root, flower, and leaf??
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Liam created a plant that had an
electric fence to catch predators.
Click to watch video.
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Mrs. Higdon
1st Grade
2022 - 2023
Students observed plants on a nature walk around our school campus. They recorded their observations by drawing different parts of plants they saw. They then discussed how each plant has different parts that help it to survive and grow.
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2022- 2023
Plant observations -
The Power of Plants, intro
Lauren Brill
1st Grade
Carson
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Project connecting home to school on Tree-menodous Roots
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POWER OF PLANTS:
Building a plant model and everything it needs to survive out of Legos.
We are now taking our power of plants lesson to the next level. We planted a pumpkin in front of our room and filled it with food, legos and trash we found in the lunch court. We will dig it up in April and see what we discover!
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1/30/20 Our students get very excited to share their thinking in a respectful, accepting way. Students love learning about their environment using their senses.
Power of Plants
Lesson 1
Habits of Mind #11
Lesson 3 Sort the Flower Parts
Habits of Mind #13
Lesson 7 Build a pipe cleaner plant that can stand on its own
Habits of Mind #16
Full STEAM ahead! The
Students are LOVING
The Power of Plants unit!
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Harvesting radishes from the school garden and comparing/contrasting the parts. Great and fun way to really understand the word “structure!”
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We love any chance STEAM took us outside
to learn and explore!
Lego Plant Creations
Students are persisting (Habit of Mind 1) in creating models and adding their designs and thinking with clarity and precision (H of M 9) to Seesaw and Book Creator.
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Creating our powerful plant models...
Sharing our creations with our colleagues...
Room 8’s green thumbs at work...
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Growing mystery seeds
LEGO plant models
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Hands on investigation at our school garden.
Teamwork creating a plant.
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2022
2022-2023
Unit 4-The Power of Plants
We planned, sketched and built powerful plants with LEGO
The kids worked together and they planned and built and rebuilt
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Persisting, Creating and Questioning
We planned, sketched and built powerful plants with LEGO
The kids worked together and they planned and built and rebuilt
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Measuring the plants with LEGO is super engaging.
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Poetry and drama lesson using this book.
Maggie Curtis/Holmes
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My students have enjoyed the mystery seed growth. They like caring for them (watering, moving them to the sun, and measuring them).
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Students explaining their Powerful plants
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My students made plant diagrams with construction paper, yarn, cupcake liners, and sunflower seeds.
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Rowan Bright Spots! Accessibility for all our ELL’s! Hands-on learning for design, helps students in our
Rooms who like to create, to show what they know!
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Exploring with Legos to create a plant.
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Students have taken on the love and enjoyment of learning the 1st grade STEAM unit 1.
Lego Plant Creations
Students are persisting (Habit of Mind 1) in creating models and adding their designs and thinking with clarity and precision (H of M 9) to Seesaw and Book Creator.
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Speaking and Listening Skills
My kinder and first grade students speaking confidently about the plant they built while the others listen attentively.
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Habit of Mind #12 - Responding with Wonderment and Awe.(I am curious and have fun learning.)
Students had a blast using LEGOs to build a plant.
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Students using Seesaw to illustrate and label family dinner plates with healthy food choices.
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Students were creating a flower that can stand alone with pipe cleaners. Students were Persistent (Habit of Mind #1) and Thinking Flexibly (Habit of Mind #4). They were able to see students who created a flower that could stand alone and then they added a pipe cleaner and changed their thinking to make their flower stand.
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Room 12 working together to make a Lego plant at the beginning of our unit.
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Habits of Mind: Thinking Flexibly and Persisting!
Making your flower stand up
Creating a plant structure
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We love to share our ideas!! And change our thinking!
October 2019
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Room 3 loved the leaf rubbing, using the magnifying glasses to observe the plants growth and structures. They love making strong plants with the legos. They know STEAM is part of their learning day. They were so excited to grow bean plants and observed and measured their growth.
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Students measuring their plants with LEGO.
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The students had a blast collecting and sorting plant parts. I loved how everyone worked together. This activity was very engaging and educational. .
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Ocean Beach observed roots, leaves, stems, and flowers in the garden
We tasted some too!
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I loved when they made their plants out of legos. They were working very well as partners, helping each other, and complimenting each others works. They had a chance to be creative and share interesting ideas.
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Collaborating with first grade teachers. Persisting and managing impulsivity while designing with LEGOS! Thinking flexibly amidst LEGO noise! Remain open to continuous learning...
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Sorting plants by categories.
October 2019
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B-1 students working cooperatively sorting plant parts.
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PLANTS, PLANTS, AND MORE PLANTS!
Plants, Plants, and More Plants!!
Ms. Jacobs’
class!
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Collecting and Sorting Plants
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Collecting and Sorting Plants
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Nature Walks & Observations
Parts of a Plant Video
Building with LEGO
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Problem Solving
Working together to determine how the structures of a plant help it to survive
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Hands on investigation at our school garden.
Teamwork creating a plant.
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My students were very engaged and learned many facts about the power of plants. They enjoyed the lessons and sharing their information with others.