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Plants

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Seed
Sunlight

Water
Tree

Plant
Leaf

Flower

Mushroom

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Petals
Flower
Stem
Leaf

Soil

Roots

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Life Cycle of a Plant

1st

5th

2nd

Touch Box to Listen

4th

Drag Pictures to correct Spots

3rd

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What is a seed?
A seed is a little package.
It has a baby plant in it.
It has food for the little plant too.
The seed gets water and sunshine.
It starts to grow roots under the ground.
The stem holds up the leaves and flowers.
Now the seed has become a young plant.

Use Paragraph to Answer

Questions on Next Page

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What is a seed like?

a jar

a package

a box

What is in a seed?
baby plant and food

dirt and sand

water and roots

What does a seed need to grow?

water and wind

sun and water

lightning and thunder

What does a seed grow underground?

stem

a flower

roots

What does a seed grow above ground?

stem

roots

dirt

What holds up the leaves of a plant?

root

stem

flowers

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Sort the Plants

and Animals

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This Lesson could be used for kindergarten or first grade. It goes over plants and their life cycles.
This could be used as a part of a larger unit discussing how plants and animals both have life cycles.
I would use this lesson after an introductory lesson to the students about plants.
EALR 4: Plants and animals have life cycles. Changes in the ecosystem affect living populations and the
non living elements of a defined area.Plants and animals vary from one another and their parents. These
differences serve as the basis for natural selection.
ISTE: 4.C. Collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/
or make informed decisions.
Page 2: Writing activity to help students learn plant vocabulary
Page 3: Students label the parts of a plant and drag words to correct spaces
Page 4: Students touch the box and listen then drag the appropriate picture to the
appropriate box to complete the life cycle.
Page 5 and 6: What is a seed? Touch the paragraph to read aloud. Then use split
screen mode and highlight parts of the paragraph that relate to the questions.
Page 7: Flash file about plants. Various activities, follow the directions to label
plants, match the same, complete a life cycle and make a plant grow.
Page 8: Sort plants and animals

Rationale: Interactive white board is an effective way to teach this lesson because it is
extremely engaging and interactive! By allowing the students to come up and move the
answers to the correct spots and match pictures to the correct places it helps keep them
interested and provides them with many different visuals to reinforce the information that they
are learning.