Blended Learning Lesson Plan

Lesson Title:

Parts of Plants

Objectives:

 Students will be able to distinguish between the different parts of the plant and recall the
name of each part.
 Students will be able to illustrate the various parts of a plant and label them.

State Standards:

Standard 1.L.5 : The student will demonstrate an understanding of how the structures of plants
help them survive and grow in their environments.

1.L.5A.1 : Obtain and communicate information to construct explanations for how

different plan structures(including roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds) help plants
survive, grow, and produce more plants.

1.L.5A.2 : Construct explanations of the stages of development of a flowering plant as it

grows from a seed using observations and measurements.

Context:

I am teaching this lesson because I thinks it’s important for students to understand the
world we live in and nature is huge part of that. What I think would come before this lesson is a
nature walk. This will get the students out in nature seeing it up close so when we talked about in
class they can actually visualize it. I also think it would be a good idea to follow this lesson with
another nature walk. The previous knowledge students should have before this lesson is the
basics like how plants need light and water to grow which would’ve came from the content we
learned in the previous lesson. After this lesson the students will be able to identify the parts of
plants and roughly explain what role they play in the bigger picture. This could be preparing
them to talked about photosynthesis in our next lesson because knowing what parts of the plants
play a role in that process would be helpful prior knowledge to have.
Data:

For this lesson the student would be grouped based on achievement level in assessments
previous to this lesson. This mean that there will be 3-4 groups ranging from higher achievers to
lower achievers. I probably look at previous grades, work efforts, and possibly give a small
pretest type activity and ultimately group the kids they everyone in the group is on a similar level
and can build off of each other. To collect data from this lesson I would use the ending Kahoot
exit activity and also look at overall how each child did on each part from my observation. The
data I collected from this lesson I will be used for further groupings. So I know if some students
didn’t really grasp this lesson they can be grouped together for the next lesson and so I can
intervene during that lesson.

Materials:

Part of Lesson Material’s List

Introduction  Smart Board or White Board.

 Marker or Smart Pen.
 “The parts of the plant song” YouTube video
https://youtu.be/ql6OL7_qFgU

Teacher Directed  Worksheet

 Scissors and glue
 Pencils
 “Parts of Plants for kids” YouTube video
https://youtu.be/TD60-3rqPXg

Collaborative  Large Construction Paper

 Markers, other writing utensils
 Textbook
 Chrome book/iPad
 The google app for research
 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google/id284815942

Independent Digital  Their science notebooks and pencil

 Chrome books
 https://www.generationgenius.com/videolessons/plant-
parts-video-for-kids/

Closure  Chrome books/iPads

 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kahoot-play-create-
quizzes/id1131203560

Procedures:

Introduction (10 minutes):

To begin the lesson I’m going to start by tapping in to their prior knowledge. We’re going to
work on filling in a KWL chart on the board which is a chart with a “what they know”, “what
they want to know” and “what they learned” column. This is a really good tool to use for
reflection and to get a lesson started. I’ll ask the students what they know about plants. I will
gather all of their thoughts and right them on the board. I also ask them to name different parts of
the plant that they know and also write those on the board. We’ll come back to these at the end
of the class. We’re then going ask questions they want to know about plants. I’m going to try to
keep it centered around parts and how they work. Once we’re done filling out our chart we’re
going to watch a video that is singing a song about the parts of the
plants.https://youtu.be/ql6OL7_qFgU I think songs are a good way to engage the students
musically and get facts in their head. We’re going to go over and sing it together and hopefully
this will something they are constantly remembering throughout the lesson and continuing on in
the class. Once we’re done with that I’d assign the different groups and which station they are
going to first and then I will roughly go through what each group would be doing and also go
over our behavior expectations in groups. Instructions will also be on the station if the students
have further questions.
 Teacher Directed (20 minutes):

For the teacher directed part I think it’s very important to have an activity where you can really
engage and see where each student is individually. For this group I’m
going to start with a YouTube video talking about the different parts
of the plant. https://youtu.be/TD60-3rqPXg Once we watch the video
I’m going to have a drawing in the board and we’re going to fill in
and talk about the functions of the different parts together. I’m going
to make sure everyone in the group answer so that everyone is
participating. Then we’re going to work on the worksheet below
together. They’re going to cut and glue the pieces in the correct place
with minimum help. If I see a student struggling and can help them
individually. Then on the back they are going to write in their words the functions of the parts.

Collaborative (20 minutes):

The collaborative part is where I’d really want the kids creativity to shine through. I’d really
want this to be super hands on. For this station the students will be working together to draw and
label the different stages and parts of a plants. First they’d start with the different life stages
which are a seed, sprout, and the plant. Once they’ve drawn and labeled that they’re going to
focus on the plant and label the different parts of it. This can be done any way they want as long
as it’s clearly labeled. Everyone will also have a role in the group so that way everyone is
working together. The role will be a material collector, and the material returner, the time
keeper/redirected if they get off task, finally the writer who will be labeling their diagram. They
all will be the researcher and will be allowed to use resources such as google or their textbook
book on their iPad or chrome book to find information they need.

Independent Digital (20 minutes):

For this part of the lesson I wanted an activity they’d need their chrome book and notebooks for
because I thinks it’s really good for students to write for retention. I found this very useful
website based app that has a good mini lesson on the parts of planets.
https://www.generationgenius.com/videolessons/plant-parts-video-for-kids/ I will most likely
post the link for this in google classroom for easy access. For this activity the students will watch
video and answer the discussion questions. They will do 3 of the “before watching” and 4 of the
“after watching” questions and write it in their science journals. If time allows I’d want them to
also draw a diagram of a plant and it’s parts because I think that’ll be a good thing to have in
their journals.

Closure (15 minutes):

To close this lesson first we are going to go back to our KWL chart and reflect on it. We’re
going to look at and see if everything in our prior knowledge column is accurate and if it’s not
tell why and write that in the “learned” part of the chart. Then we’re going to in general write
down things that we learned throughout this lesson and reflect. We’re also going to go over the
collaborative work and talk about what was done and why it was important and just reflect on
that activity. Once we’ve done that we’re going to go back to our desk and play our lessons
kahoot. I think this is a great way to wrap up the lesson in a fun way but also get really good data
on who truly understand and who didn’t. It’s kind of like a hidden exam and is a really useful
tool.

Rationale:

“The Parts of a Plant” YouTube video song:

YouTube is always a good place to find a small video explaining the topic you are going
to teach. I chose this specific video because I felt it exposing all of the parts and their functions
really good as well as making it a tune that is cool for the kids and something they will
remember. It support the learning standards and objectives because it is helping the students
learn and remember the parts of a plant and one of the standards is to be able to identify and
explain the function of the parts. In terms of the LORI criteria I think this video follows it really
well. The content quality is really good because it does thoroughly go through the material and
accurately explains it. It also aligns well with the learning goal. It is also really motivating
because of the song format it is in. It’s fun for the kids and also really informative. The
presentation design is also really well considering it is an older video. When it comes to
feedback and adaptation and interaction usability it doesn’t have much but it’s also a music video
so I wouldn’t expect it to. To interact with the video the students just sing along. This YouTube
can definitely be reused I’m different classes and even later in the lesson as a refresher. I think
this video does a really good job at differentiating instruction. It has music and sound for the
auditory learners and it has words and pictures for the visual learners. Singing the song would
help for the verbal learners and there are many others.

“Generation Genius”

Generation genius is a we based app that has many different lessons and activities for
teachers and students. I wasn’t really sure how to incorporate apps in this lesson because I feel
like it’s a really hand ons type lesson but I think this does a really good job of having kind of like
a mini online lesson that the students can do alone. It really supports the students learning
standards and objectives because it is fully centered on the material we are learning. You can tell
it is really high quality because of all the resources it has and also the fact that there’s teacher
and student areas. When it comes to the LORI standards the content quality is really nice and
thorough. It aligns with the learning goals really well. It also has a lot of section the students cam
interact with. I doesn’t really do a good job with feedback and adaptation but I think it’s because
it has a quiz area and the teacher would be the one to give the feedback. The design is really kid
friendly and colorful and I think this helps with the motivation to do the work. You can also
reuse this but in different ways however once you’ve used it the students will know the answers
so it would be more of a review if it’s reused. When it comes to differentiating for students I do
think it could’ve done a little better. That means you’d probably use this in combination with
other activities. It does have a video to watch and it also has review questions for your students
to write.

“Kahoot”

I chose this piece of multimedia because it is a classic and something I think students
really look forward too. I supports students leaning and the objectives because it’s a good way to
reflect and really see what they know and what they need to work on. Kahoot is definitely high
quality because of all of the different ways you can formulate your Kahoot and the data you can
get from it. When it comes to the LORI standards I thinks it follows a lot of them. The content
quality is really up to the teacher because it very customizable what can be in your quiz. This
also means you can align the goals and the quizzes really well. It also has really good feedback
because during the quiz you can see what you are getting right and wrong and it’s also good
feedback for the teacher to see who understands and who doesn’t. Motivation wise I think the
way everything is presented helps with that. I think the colorfulness and competitiveness of it
really excites the gets and motivates them to do good. Kahoot is also very interactive because of
the game show type format. You can also save your quizzes and reuse them later so that’s very
handy. When it comes to differentiating for the students I think it’s a very general app that
promotes healthy competition and it’s not really focused on specifically teaching the content.