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Sample Unit Planning Template - Seed to a Plant Storyline
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Growing Elementary Science - Where does a Plant Get Food?
Overview
This is a two day presentation that kicked off the beginning of the Growing Elementary Science Project in October of 2019. This was a teacher professional learning session with the goal of increasing teacher content and pedagogical content knowledge through engagement in a learning cycle to answer the question "Where does a seed get the material it needs to become a plant and produce more seeds?"
Teachers also experienced a structured planning session to support them in developing a garden centric science unit to do with their students. The resource includes the template and a completed model to explore.
Presentation Resources
This is a two day presentation given to elementary teachers in the Growing Elementary Science Project in October 2019. The presentation contains a science immersion experience for the teachers learning about how a seed gets the materials it needs to become a plant and make more seeds. The learning highlights the use of phenomena within the context of a learning arc over the course of the two days to develop elementary teacher content knowledge related to living systems.
Teachers were also supported in planning a science unit using the schoolyard garden context as an anchor for investigations.
Unit Planning Template and Sample
This Growing Elementary Science Unit Planning Template supports teachers in identifying a garden oriented anchor phenomena along with grade level appropriate science standards for a unit of study. The planning template provides guidance and hyperlinks to appropriate resources like the Next Generation Science Standards to support teacher planning and ensure alignment with grade level standards.
A sample unit planning template that was used to plan the science immersion the teachers participated in during the October 4-5 Growing Elementary Science Kick Off Event.