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Plant Growth
Representation and the 5E Model
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Engagement
● What do students already know?
● Open questions, checking prior knowledge, use a seed and a
real plant to encourage students to give suggestions about
how plants grow.
● Representation:
○ Watch a timelapse video of a seed growing
○ Create a class word bank of the key words with images as
necessary
○ Highlight relationships between a seed and a plant
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Exploration
● Students grow beans in plastic cups with wet
kitchen paper. Students choose where to place
their cup and how often to water it (warm place,
cold place, dark place, light place, etc).
● Let students talk about their observations in their
own words.
● Representation:
○ Record words used to describe observations in
English and Spanish
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Explanation
● Explain, using the correct scientific terms, what
has happened to each of the seeds.
● Representation:
○ Use visuals from the experiment to help show
meaning.
○ Use images of the parts of the plant
○ Translate words from the previous stage as
necessary
○ Add to class word bank
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Elaboration
● Creation of a seed journal, drawing or short video
where students explain what happened using the
correct scientific terms.
● Representation:
○ Word bank from previous stages.
○ Students choose how to display information
(action and expression)
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Evaluation
● Students reflect on what they have learned.
● This could include self and peer assessment
against the success criteria for the scientific
knowledge.
● Representation:
○ Self/peer assessment code or key
○ Generation of new questions as a group verbal and written evidence
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Credits.
Presentation Template: SlidesMania
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