Michelle Havener

Day 8
Plants & Their Life on Earth
State Standard 3.L.5: The student will demonstrate an understanding of how the characteristics and
changes in environments and habitats affect the diversity of organisms.
Indicator 3.L.5A.2: Develop and use a food chain model to classify organisms as producers,
consumers, and decomposers and to describe how organisms obtain energy.
Learning Objective(s): The students will be able to fill out a worksheet based on the plants life on earth
with an eighty-five percent accuracy using their survival books.
Essential Question(s): What purposes do plants serve?
Assessment: The students will be able to fill out a worksheet based on the lesson and their survival book.
As well as, write their observation of the class plant. The results will be recorded in the anything chart.
Activities/Procedures:
Opening: The teacher and the students will review what they have learned from the previous
days.
Activities: The teacher will pass out the students lapbooks.
The teacher and the students will underline key information in their survival books.
The teacher will pass out the worksheet.
The students will write their observations of the class plant in their journals and graph how much
the plant has grown.
The students and the teachers will discuss their observations of the class plant.
Closure: The students will turn in their journals, lapbooks, and worksheet.
Accommodation:
ESOL: The teacher will speak all directions as well as restate and reword as necessary. Each activity will
be modeled before the students attempt it.
Resource & Speech: The students will receive extra time, additional instruction as needed, and have all of
the questions read orally to them (if IEP requires).
Challenge: The students will write a paragraph on plants and their life on earth. They will use their
survival books to help them write the information. Or answer the problem thinking questions on a
separate sheet of paper.
Early Finishers: Options: 1) work on unfinished homework, 2) students can read a book, 3) Take an AR
test, 4) go on razkids, 5) do ExtraMath, 6) write their times tables, or 7) fill out the KWL chart found in
the their lapbooks.
Materials: Lapbooks, Survival Books, Pencils, Laptop, Promethean Board, worksheet, observation
journal, crayons, glue, scissors, and KWL chart.
Development of Critical Thinking and Problem Solving:
1) How would you design a brochure to make people aware of plants purposes? (Creating)
2) Based on what you know, what purposes do plants serve? (Evaluating)
3) Can you identify the purposes that the plants serve? (Analyzing)

Michelle Havener
Day 8
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