1st Grade New Plants
Content Standard III: Life
Essential Learnings:
What do students need to know and be able to do?
Big Ideas:
1. Experimental Design (observations, question, hypothesis and
design)
2. Scientific testing (conduct investigations, collect and organize
data)
3. Analysis and Conclusions (analysis trends, and conclusions)
Students will…..
Identify the parts of growing plants as they develop roots, stems, leaves,
buds, flowers, and seeds in a sequence called a life cycle.
Observe that plants will closely resemble parent when seeds are planted and
from plant cuttings.
4. Principles of heredity and related concepts
5. Relationships between organisms and their physical environment
6. Structure and function of cells and organisms
Understand that plants need water, air, nutrients, and light to grow and
develop.
Explain that plants have different structures that function in growth and
survival.
Observe, record, compare, and communicate the development of seeds.
Essential Vocabulary:
alive
plant
soil
nutrient
seedling
stem
leaf
bud
flower
pollen
root
grass
grains
wheat
sprout
bulb
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How will we effectively teach to ensure students learn?
 Inquiry

Investigation 1:
High Yielding Instructional Strategies embedded in each investigation below
Brassica
Investigation 2:
Seeds
Grain Seeds
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
Grass and
How can you tell if something is What do seeds need to grow?
alive?
How are rye grass and alfalfa
Think back to when you observed plants similar and different?
goldfish
and
guppies
in
kindergarten, how are how their What is the function of leaves and
needs similar and different to plant roots?
needs?
What do your brassica plants need
to grow?
How does a new brassica plant
start?
In what order do the new plant
parts grow?
If you plant and grow what is inside
the brassica pod what will it
become?
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Investigation 3:
Stems
Essential Questions:
Investigation 4:
Roots
Bulbs and
OPTIONAL
Essential Questions:
How can stems grow into new
plants?
What are bulbs?
What do plants need to make food What other plant parts can grow
and keep growing?
new plants?
How are potato leaves different than
those on other plants you have
grown?
Part 1: Introducing Recording
Part 1: Lawns
Part 1: Rooting Stem Cuttings
BOTH PARTS OPTIONAL
Part 2: Planting Brassica
Part 2: Mowing the Lawn
Part 2: New Plants from Cuttings
Part 1: Bulbs
Part 3: Observing Brassica
Part 3: Wheat
Part 3: Spuds
Part 2: Planting Roots
Science Extension pg. 32 : Required
Plant your harvested Brassica Seeds
How do we know if students are learning?
Assessment: Use assessments provided in Teacher’s Manual. See page 311
What will we do if students don’t learn or if they are already performing at or above grade level?
Science Extension opportunities provided in teachers manual
Reteaching Strategies
Suggested Time Frame:
25 investigations 45 minutes each or about 8 weeks due to time for plant
growth
Scope and Sequence:
Students will have examined structures
and functions of various organisms in Animals 2x2 any other experiences
with plants would be limited to personal experiences.
DRAFT
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