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LESSON: What Plants Need
Standard:
AZ Science Standards, Strand 4: Life Science, Concept 3: Organisms and Environment
Objectives:
Identify the requirements for growing plants.
Explain the importance of each requirement and what would happen if it was missing.
Compare and contrast the needs of humans and plants.
Materials:
7 beads per student (in 5 groups of 6, 1 envelope per “table”)
5 bowl/trays for passing beads
Graphic organizers, optional
Books for extension: One Bean, Pick-Pull-Snap, How a Seed Grows, Oh Say Can You Seed, Living
Sunlight, From Seed to Plant, Inch-by-Inch, A Seed is Sleepy
Preparation:
For this lesson, students split into 5 groups of 6
Pour each envelope into a bowl/tray. Students will pass this around their group and take beads.
Teacher
Student
Assessment
Whole group/ Put pipe cleaners and beads on tables.
at carpet
Establish norms for the bead bowl/tray: only
touch when directed, don’t put in your
5 mins
mouth, etc.
Whole group/ “What is a plant? Name some examples.
at carpet
What do plants need to live?
2 mins
Do we also need those things to live?”
Individual or in Choose the appropriate graphic organizer.
Complete graphic
Graphic
groups at desk Can be pre-work or exit ticket.
organizer
organizer
5-10 mins
In groups of 6
“Take a white bead. This represents the seed. Pass around bowl/tray.
The seed is the “backpack” that carries the
Take 1 white bead.
10 mins
plant. All plants come from seeds. Seeds are Take 1 pipe cleaner.
different sizes and colors. “
Put bead on pc.
“What do we do with seeds?
Pass around bowl/tray.
(Plant them) Where?(dirt)
Take 1 brown bead
Take a brown bead. This represents soil.
and put on pc.
Seeds grow best in soil that is rich in nutrients.
What kind of natural soil do we have in
Arizona? (Rocky) Why? (desert, little rain)
Repeat with:
Pass around bowl/tray.
Yellow-sun
Take 1
Clear-air, carbon dioxide
yellow/clear/blue
Blue- water
bead and put on pc.
“What would happen if a plant didn’t get
enough sun/air/water?”
“What could the red bead represent?”
Finish with red and
Bracelet
Explore all options, guide students to
green (plant) beads.
love/care.
Wear as bracelet or
“How can we care for our plants on
put on backpack.
campus?” (not pulling off leaves/flowers, not
walking in garden beds, etc.)
Whole group/ “Who can you share this information with?
at carpet
How can this information benefit your
community?
5 mins
Optional read aloud
Name: _____________________________
K,1
What Plants Need
Color in the picture of what plants need.
SEED
AIR
SOIL SUN
WATER LOVE
Name: _______________________________
K, 1, 2
What Plants Need
Match the word to the picture.
Water
Sun
Soil
Air
Seed
Love
Name: _______________________________
What Plants Need
Match the word to the picture.
Water
Sun
Soil
Air
Seed
Love
K, 1, 2
Name: _______________________________
1, 2
What Plants Need
Write the word under the picture.
Name: _______________________________
What Plants Need
Write the word under the picture.
1, 2
Name: _______________________________
What Plants Need
What would happen to a plant if it doesn’t get enough water?
Draw
What would happen to a plant if it doesn’t get enough sun?
Draw
Name: _______________________________
What Plants Need
What would happen to a plant if it doesn’t get enough water?
Draw
What would happen to a plant if it doesn’t get enough sun?
Draw
Name: _______________________________
What Plants Need
Compare and contrast what plants need and what humans need.
PLANT
BOTH
HUMAN
Name: _______________________________
What Plants Need
Compare and contrast what plants need and what humans need.
PLANT
BOTH
HUMAN