5E Lesson Plan Template

Your name or Jennifer Folker

Cooperating
teacher name
(if needed)

Date(s) taught November 6th – 8th

Subject Science
Grade level First Grade

Materials iPads with Seesaw app, Interactive Board, “Pumpkin Life Cycle” GoogleSlides,
Pumpkin Life Cycle worksheets, created Seesaw pumpkin plant activity, Epic
app for nonfiction books, crayons, pencils, sheet of white paper for each pair of
learners

Standards
(State and
Science Content Standard: SC15.1.7
ISTE
Standards for Make observations to identify the similarities and differences of
Students) offspring to their parents and to other members of the same species
(e.g., flowers from the same kind of plant being the same shape, but
differing in size; dog being same breed as parent, but differing in fur
color or pattern).

ISTE Standard:

Digital Citizen: Students recognize the rights, responsibilities, and

opportunities of living, learning, and working in an interconnected
digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal,
and ethical. Students:
c. demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the
rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.

Objectives Learners will be able to identify similarities between an adult pumpkin plant and
its offspring by comparing (shape, size, etc.).
Learners will be able to identify similarities and differences between an adult
pumpkin plant and its offspring by comparing and contrasting the adult and

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Learners will be able to draw a picture of an adult plant and its offspring in order
to show the similarities.
Learners will be able to demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the
rights of others sharing intellectual property by staying on their own Epic
accounts and not changing icons on other’s Epic accounts.
Learners will recognize their responsibility to use digital resources correctly and
ethically, searching only for what was asked for in the lesson.

Differentiation Strategies for ELL learner: The teacher will spend a few minutes with the
Strategies ELL learner prior to the lesson in order to help build vocabulary. The teacher
will activate prior learning when the pumpkin activities completed on Pumpkin
Day and use some Spanish words to help her connect the vocabulary (plant,
animal, offspring, species, leaves, seeds)
Strategies for vision impaired learners: Activities will be shown on the large
Interactive Board, preferential seating, individual activities on iPads (Epic and
Seesaw).
Strategies for learner with IEP: Extra time will given if needed and the
drawing to scaffold for the Seesaw activity will be completed with a partner.
Strategies for acceleration: Learners who complete the activity early will be
challenged to find a nonfiction book about an animal and will be asked to
identify characteristics of an animal and its offspring that show similarities.

The 5 Es

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Engageme Ask the learners to recall activities we did using pumpkins on Pumpkin Day. Show the pumpkin life
nt cycle digital poster on the interactive board. The teacher will then play a song on the Interactive
Board at the front of the room to activate prior knowledge about the pumpkin life cycle.
Give clear objectives and connect the life cycle to the objectives for this lesson. Tell the learners
that we will use what we know from the pumpkin life cycle to look at details and discover more
about the fully grown adult pumpkin and the baby plant. Review comprehension strategy “compare
and contrast.” Ask the learners which part showed the adult pumpkin and which showed a part
that is the baby plant or “offspring” and would grow into a new pumpkin plant.
Play the song again, ask the learners to sing, and pay close attention to the similarities and
differences of the plant at its different stages.

Engageme Formative Assessment: Learners will be able to show they recall the stages of a pumpkin life cycle
nt through answering questions. Learners will show a beginning understanding of comparing an adult
Assessme pumpkin plant and its offspring. The teacher will gauge understanding and use follow-up questions
nt or statements to further gauge and guide understanding.

Exploration Explain that the learners will find a nonfiction book about a plant on Epic. Remind learners that we
have a privilege to use these digital resources and it is our responsibility to use them correctly and
in a kind way. We are not going to change the icons on each other’s Epic accounts and we are not

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going to search for or read books that are not about plants. When the learners find a book, they
will listen to or read the book twice. The second time they will look carefully for similarities and
differences between the adult plant and its offspring. This information will then be used to draw a
picture of the adult plant and the offspring. Learners will label similiarities. This activity will be
completed in pairs (chosen by the teacher).

Options for books on Epic: From Seed to Plant and Max Plants a Seed: A Book About the Life
Cycle of a Pumpkin

Exploration Learners will show an understanding of the term “offspring” as well as an understanding of how to
Assessme compare an adult plant with its offspring through the pictures drawn and labeled.
nt

Explanatio The teacher will use the interactive board to show GoogleSlides of the vocabulary and concepts
n needed for this lesson: compare, contrast, adult, offspring, characteristics, traits. The teacher will
show pictures for each vocabulary word in order to help make conncetions and explain the
vocabulary words using the pumpkin life cycle slide. Guide the learners through making
connections between adult or parent plant and its offspring by comparing and identifying
similarities. The teacher will guide the learners through discussing the similarities of trees and their
offspring, such as how the leaves are similar shape, though they may be a different size. The
teacher will guide the learners through matching pictures of plants and their offspring by identifying
similarities.
Google Slides used in explanation:

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Explanatio The teacher will walk around the room while partners are reading and talking about the similarities
n and differences of the adult plant and offspring and drawing those similarities and diffrences to
Assessme gauge understanding.
nt

Elaboratio Seesaw activity to record similarities of adult and offspring plant of the same species: The
n leaners will draw the adult and offspring plant and show the similarities they found when comparing
and contrasting the plant using a book on Epic. This will be recorded on the t-chart Seesaw
activity in their activity list. Learners will use the record tool to record themselves telling about the
similarities and differences of the plant they learned about.

Seesaw Activity Template:

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Extension: Learners can apply what they learned about comparing and contrasting plant adults
and offspring to show similarities and differences and connect this concept to animals. Learners
will match animal parents and offsprings in this Seesaw activity:

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Evaluation When Seesaw activities are completed, the learners will turn them in and they will be assessed on
the teacher’s Seesaw interface before activities are approved for parents to see. If students did
not show understanding, they will meet with the teacher at the small group table to read the book
the learners chose and discuss the similiarities of the adult and offspring plant together.

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Bybee, R. W. (1997). Achieving Scientific Literacy: From Purposes to Practices. Oxford: Heinemann.

National Research Council. (1999). Inquiry and the national science education standards: A guide for
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Polman, J.L. (2000). Designing project-based silence: Connecting learners through guided inquiry.
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