Plants Have Needs
Plants are organisms that impact our everyday lives! In fact, we can thank plants for our food, clean water, energy, the very air we breath and more! Plants have so much to offer to us as humans, they offer keys to everyday problems, and perhaps our future! Because plants are such an essential member of our planet earth, young children need to learn about their needs and how to care for them.
Plants are living things, and because they are alive, they have basic needs to allow for growth and survival. What are those essentials required for plant life? Water, air, sunlight, nutrients, space, and safety.
Help your students learn about these important life-sustaining requirements using developmentally appropriate hands-on lessons. This lesson packet has everything you need to incorporate the Next Generation Science Standard K-LS1-1 Plants Have Needs, in your classroom. This packet reaches across the curriculum into math, language arts, music, and art.
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Help your young children learn about responsibility for the plants around them and expand natural curiosity for the world in which they live.
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Product Description
Strategically Linked to the common core, this best-selling Thematic plant unit is divided into areas of literature, media, music, art, literacy activities, math activities, worksheets, science activities, creative writing, word wall words, and guided reading for cross-curricular learning.
The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. The lessons are fun and engaging and will leave your classroom or homeschool students begging for more.
Math Center Activities
Flowering Math: Joining Sets
Watermelon War: Comparing Numerals
Garden Party: Demonstrating Subtraction
Counting Seeds: Count out items to match a given number.
Planting Seeds: Making Combinations to 10
Adding Flowers
Garden Takeaway
Plant a Garden Ways to Make 8
Reading Center Activities:
Flower Garden: Reading Sight Word & CVC Word Sentences (or alphabet recognition).
Tip Toe Through the Tulips: Alphabet letter sound fluency (or sight word fluency)
Run Rabbit Run: Alphabet Letter Fluency
In the Garden: Naming Sight Words
Greenhouse Words: Reading Sight Words
Blooming Words: Isolating Phonemes & Writing CVC Words From Dictation
The Garden Show: Writing Color Words
Science Activities
Building a Science Center
A Seed Grows: Planting a seed in a bag
Kitchen Science: Edible Dirt
Plant Parts: Observation of Plants
The Thirsty Stem: Capillary Action In Plants
Seed Sorting: Using the Scientific Process
Art Projects
Plant Parts: Portfolio Sample
Artful Flowers
Mother's Day Flower
Fingerprint Flowers
Songs
Watermelon Pie
Inch by Inch (adapted) by David Mallet
Plant A Seed
Guided Reading
The Little Seed
Writing
Plant Word Wall Words
Prompts: All About Seeds,What I Know About Plants
I Can Writing: Label it, list it card it
Pond Independent Writing Center Activities
Spring Themed Intervention Games
Lamb and Lion Spring Themed Activities
Each activity is clearly written, easy to use, and needs limited preparation. The lessons are fun and engaging and will leave your students begging for more!
Teach science standards in developmentally appropriate and authentic ways! Our complete lesson guide not only delivers the aligned science content with quality, it crosses the curriculum into language arts, math, art, and music. Your teaching of the science with be completed with excitement and engagement!
Table of Contents
Objective and Standards Overview
Lesson Outline
Student Worksheeds
Plant Themed Writing Practice
Cross-Curricular Plant-Themed Games
Plant Art
Plant Music
Plant Needs Experiment & data gathering
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