UNIT - PLANTS

This unit builds on the living/non-living things unit and focuses on plants. Students learned about what plants need, how to grow them, how to differentiate their parts, and how they change with the seasons. They conducted their own experiment to determine whether or not plants can live without one of their basic needs (water, air, sunlight, soil).

Students reviewed the “A plant needs…” and “A plant/tree has got…” sentence structures. For the corner games vocabulary we made a “plants need” crossword puzzle and a “plants/trees have got…” dice (students roll the dice and draw and/or write part of the plant. The first student to complete his/her plant wins). We played both games as a class beforehand and made a set of simple written directions for reference.

For corner games sentences and whiteboard the students had loose words that they used to make sentences as well as whole sentences that they copied on their whiteboards.