Michelle Havener

Day 3
Part of a Plant
State Standard 3.L.5: The student will demonstrate an understanding of how the characteristics
and changes in environments and habitats affect the diversity of organisms.
Indicator 3.L.5A.2: Develop and use a food chain model to classify organisms as
producers, consumers, and decomposers and to describe how organisms obtain energy.
Learning Objective(s): The students will be able to complete a quick check worksheet and
complete it with an eighty-five percent accuracy.
Essential Question(s): What are the different parts of the plant and their purposes/functions of
each part?
Assessment: The students will be able to complete a Quick Check worksheet on parts of the
plant with a ninety-three percent accuracy. The results will be recorded in an anything chart.
Activities/Procedures:
Opening: The teacher and the students will review what they have learned from the
previous days.
Activities: The students and the teacher will do the Parts of a Plant Fold-it in the
lapbooks.
The students will underline key information in their Survival books.
The students will look, and write in their journals what they notice about the plant being
grown in class.
The students will write in their journals about their observations of the class plant
Closure: The students will do a Quick Check on parts of the plant.
Accommodation:
ESOL: The teacher will speak all directions as well as restate and reword as necessary. Each
activity will be modeled before the students attempt it.
Resource & Speech: The students will receive extra time, additional instruction as needed, and
have all of the questions read orally to them (if IEP requires).
Challenge: If the computers are open the students may get on
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/science_up_close/213/deploy/interface.swf and
complete the activity. Or answer the problem thinking questions on a separate sheet of paper.
Early Finishers: Options: 1) work on unfinished homework, 2) students can read a book, 3) Take
an AR test, 4) go on razkids, 5) do ExtraMath, 6) write their times tables, or 7) fill out the KWL
chart found in the their lapbooks.
Materials: Lapbooks, Survival Books, Pencils, Laptop, Promethean Board, Quick Check
worksheet, Part of a plant fold-it, crayons, glue, scissors, and KWL chart.
Development of Critical Thinking and Problem Solving:
1) What are some other ways you can make/create to help you remember parts of the plant?
(Creating)
2) Based on what you know, what are the purposes of each part of the plant? (Evaluating)
3) Can you identify each part of the plant and their functions? (Analyzing)

Michelle Havener
Day 3
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