What plants and animals need to survive
Overview
What is your one final driving question?
What do plants, animals, and people need to stay alive?
Background information of this driving question:
What grade are you working?
I am working with kindergarten but this could also be used in a first grade class to teach them about needs and wants.
Which standard are you targeting?
I am targeting a kindergarten life science standard.
K.LS.3
Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
My grabber is a video from Peep and the Big Wide World. The name of the episode is “Peep Plants a Seed.” The video is about 8 minutes long.
After they watch the video we will plant a bean seed.
Introductory Grabber:
The teacher will start out by introducing the idea of things that are needed to survive for people and then showing the Peep video. The video is just about Peep learning how to plant a seed and take care of it. After the video the the teacher will ask about the video, and then introduce the plan of planting a bean seed. This is an effective way to to introduce the topic because they will already have an idea of how to take care of a plant and they will want to be able to experience the same as Peep.
Link to the video and bean plant instructions
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxs7P7LWzDg
http://www.greatgrubclub.com/grow-a-bean-plant#.WMlOuZH3ahA
Section 1
What is your one final driving question?
What do plants, animals, and people need to stay alive?
Background information of this driving question:
What grade are you working?
I am working with kindergarten but this could also be used in a first grade class to teach them about needs and wants.
Which standard are you targeting?
I am targeting a kindergarten life science standard.
K.LS.3
Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
My grabber is a video from Peep and the Big Wide World. The name of the episode is “Peep Plants a Seed.” The video is about 8 minutes long.
After they watch the video we will plant a bean seed.
Introductory Grabber:
The teacher will start out by introducing the idea of things that are needed to survive for people and then showing the Peep video. The video is just about Peep learning how to plant a seed and take care of it. After the video the the teacher will ask about the video, and then introduce the plan of planting a bean seed. This is an effective way to to introduce the topic because they will already have an idea of how to take care of a plant and they will want to be able to experience the same as Peep.
Link to the video and bean plant instructions
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxs7P7LWzDg
http://www.greatgrubclub.com/grow-a-bean-plant#.WMlOuZH3ahA