Michelle Havener

Day 4
All About Seeds
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 worksheet based on seeds with
an eighty-five percent accuracy.
Essential Question(s): What is dissemination?
Assessment: The students will be able to fill out a teacher made worksheet on seeds by using
their survival handbooks. As well as write their observations of the class plant in their journals.
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 teacher will pass out the students lapbooks.
The students will color, cut, and paste the All about Seeds Flipbook into their lapbooks.
The teacher and the students will underline key information in their survival books.
The teacher will pass out the worksheets.
The students will write their observations of the class plant in their journals and graph
how much the plant has grown.
Closure: The students will turn in their seeds worksheet, lapbook, and journals.
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/109/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, Seeds worksheet, All
About Seeds Flipbook, Observation Journals, crayons, glue, scissors, and KWL chart.
Development of Critical Thinking and Problem Solving:
1) What would happen if animals could not transfer seeds? (Creating)
2) Based on what you know, what are the purposes of aquatic plants? (Evaluating)
3) Can you identify each part of the seed and the purpose of each part? (Analyzing)

Michelle Havener
Day 4
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