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This document discusses how to teach students about plants and weather. It provides learning objectives, vocabulary words, and interactive activities to help students understand plant parts and life cycles, as well as daily weather patterns, seasons, and weather safety. Some suggested activities include using seed planting demonstrations and a "see-through" planter to observe roots growing, weather diaries to track local conditions, and interactive tools to identify plant parts and take temperature measurements. The goal is for students to understand what plants need to live and how weather can impact plants and animals.
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- 1. How can we use the weather to help plants and animals? Kristen Magyar Instructional Technology Coach Highland Falls Fort Montgomery Central School District @mrsmagyar http://www.hffmcsd.org/webpages/kmagyar/
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- 4. Plants- What do they need to know? Big Idea: Plants are living things that use light to make their own food. Core Content Objectives: Understand that there are many different kinds and sizes of plants Understand that different kinds of plants grow in different environments Understand that plants are living things Describe what plants need to live and grow: food, water, air, and sunlight Identify the root, stem, branch, leaf, flower, fruit, and seed of a plant Explain that roots anchor the plant and take in water and nutrients Explain that stems support the plant and carry water and nutrients to the various parts of the plant Explain that the plant makes its food in the leaves Explain that seeds are the beginning of new plants Describe how bees collect nectar and pollen Understand how bees make and use honey Describe the important role bees play in plant pollination
- 5. So many ideas to cover... Understand that some plants produce fruit to hold seeds Demonstrate familiarity with the tall tale Johnny Appleseed Compare and contrast fruits and seeds of different plants Understand the basic life cycle of plants Identify the part of specific plants that are eaten by people Compare and contrast deciduous and evergreen plants Identify things that plants provide us: oxygen, food, and important products Understand the life and scientific achievements of George Washington Carver
- 7. From Seed to Fruit (Interactive) Planting a seed in a cup and watching it grow over time is a wonderful way to introduce the life cycle to young children. Seed to Fruit takes children through the different stages of growth in the life of a cherry tomato plant. (Includes video, activities, and teacher background knowledge and instructions.) Plant Parts Bring in different plants and ask students to identify the parts. After talking about plants, have students design and illustrate their own plant on a piece of paper, instructing them to include all parts of a plant (root, stem, branch, and leaf). Instruct students to share their drawings and identify the parts of their plant while sharing. Their classmates may also want to guess where the parts of that particular plant are located on the drawing. You may also wish to create picture of plant parts and have students assemble them to make a whole plant. (Interactive plant parts identification and needs.) See-Through Planter Using a sealed package of bean seeds and paper towels, create a see-through planter. Wet the paper towels and plant beans in them. Place the paper towels and bean seeds in sealed, clear plastic bags. Observe the roots as they form during the next few days.The link supports this activity and provides a video on how to set up the experiment, discussion questions, and teacher background knowledge and instructions. Another video link to use with students is Curious George Paper Towel Plants.
- 8. Literacy Connection to the Common Core Learning Standards RL.K.1.With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. RL.K.2. With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details. RL.K.3. With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. RL.K.4. Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text. RL.K.7. With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts). RL.K.9. With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories. RL.K.10. Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding. RI.K.1. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. RI.K.2. With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. RI.K.3. With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. RI.K.4. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text. RI.K.7. With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts). RI.K.9. With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures). RI.K.10. Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
- 9. W.K.1. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g. My favorite book is...). W.K.5. With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed. W.K.6. With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. W.K.7. Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of books by a favorite author and express opinions about them.) SL.K.1. Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. SL.K.1.a. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion). SL.K.1.b. Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges SL.K.2. Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood. SL.K.5. Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail. L.K.4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content. L.K.4.a. Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). L.K.4.b. Use the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word. L.K.5. With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. L.K.5.b. Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). L.K.5.c. Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful). L.K.5.d. Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings. L.K.6. Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
- 10. How to introduce Plants? Time lapse video iMotion for iPads Great Radish Video on YouTube Seed Video on YouTube If YouTube is blocked Teachertube Watch Know Learn What video sites do you use? Please list...
- 12. parts of a plant. roots petals leaves stem
- 13. Big Ideas: Weather describes the condition of Earths atmosphere. Characteristic weather patterns can be described for various regions on Earth. Describe daily weather conditions of their own locality in terms of temperature (hot, warm, cool, cold); cloud cover (sunny, cloudy); and precipitation (rain, snow, or sleet) Draw pictures that show an understanding of each season Describe safe and unsafe behaviors during severe weather Identify and describe different types of severe weather Identify a thermometer as an instrument used to measure temperature and describe how it works, i.e., when the liquid in the thermometer rises, it is hotter outside; when the liquid descends, it is cooler
- 14. Weather Interactives Taking Temperatures: Water Place cups of warm, cool, and ice-cold water on a table. Take the temperature of each cup of water and show students the readings on the thermometer. Have students feel the water. Record the temperature of each cup on a chart. Ask students what they think will happen to the temperature of the water throughout the day. Later in the day, take the temperature of the water again. Have students feel the water again. Record the temperature of each cup on the chart. Ask students if their predictions were correct. Weather Diary Discuss with students what the current season is and what the weather has been like in your area the last few days. Tell students that you would like for them to keep a weather diary over the course of the next week to track the weather on a daily basis. Provide each student with three pieces of paper in order to make a small weather diary, starting with todays date. Take the class outdoors at the same time each day to discuss the days weather and to make recordings onto the weather diary. Have students draw a simple picture of a sun, a sun with clouds, clouds, or clouds and rain depending on the weather each day. If you have an outside thermometer, you may also wish to have students write down the outside temperature, and/or have them draw a simple thermometer and color in how high or low the liquid in the thermometer is. Reinforce the concept of yesterday, today, and tomorrow by asking questions like: How is the weather today different from the weather yesterday? After four days, discuss the characteristics of the current season in your locality as well as the weather changes and temperature changes that occurred.
- 15. Academic Vocabulary Lesson 1 characteristics cycle patterns seasons weather Lesson 2 blizzards cautiously freezing point frigid halt thermometer Lesson 3 blossoms floods gradually seedlings thaw Lesson 4 distinct indoors sunscreen Lesson 5 bare chill shed progresses Lesson 6 future grasshopper last personification shivering Lesson 7 gear severe shelter strike Lesson 8 meteorologist meteorology record
- 16. How to introduce weather to students? Weather Report from the internet Daily Weather in the classroom Create weather forecast for the school Science Kids One of my students making a weather forecast. (SMART Board, puppets, excited student
- 17. It is now time to put it together
- 18. Working in groups please attempt to create some sort of rain collection system you will have ten minutes to work then we will be sharing. When you are finished please answer the question found at http://goo. gl/K0QhJD
- 19. Lets see what we are taking away
- 20. Thanks for coming Feel free to contact me Kristen Magyar Instructional Technology Coach Highland Falls Fort Montgomery Central School District @mrsmagyar http://www.hffmcsd. org/webpages/kmagyar/ kristen.magyar@hffmcsd.org