Objectives

Our earth has many kinds of plants.  Flowers and trees are plants. Tomatoes and beans are plants. Grass is a plant. Plants are living things that have parts, and they change over time just like people do.

What is your favorite plant? What do plants need to live and be healthy?

Are plants important in our world?

Standards

Adaptations

Materials

Scaffolding

The Tasks

You will have 3 tasks to complete.

1)  Pretend you are a plant.  What kind would you want to be? Write a paragraph describing yourself and complete a spreadsheet.

2)  What are the parts of a plant?  Find out what plants need to grow and be healthy.

3)   Find at least three ways that plants are important to our world?

Out on a Limb

Activity 1:  Research each of these types of plants.

Flower

Tree

Vine

Shrub

Which one of these four would you like to be? Explain why.  Click HERE to complete a spreadsheet with your findings.

Getting to the Root of the Matter

Activity 2:  All About Plants

1)  What are the parts of a plant?

2)  What do plants need to live and be healthy?

Click HERE to learn parts of a plant.

Click HERE to complete a chart comparing trees and plants.

Bloom’s Taxonomy: knowledge, comprehension, application

I think that I shall never see…

Activity 3:  Are Plants Important?

Click HERE to see how plants are important to people.

Click HERE to create a word document.

Bloom’s Taxonomy:  Knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, evaluation