This lesson plan focuses on food chains and food webs. There are multiple associated weblinks to supplemental videos and interactive resources.

This lesson is the second of a two-part series on the cycle of life. This series should help enhance student understanding of the flow of matter and energy and the interdependence of life by focusing on food chains and food webs.

Students gain an understanding of the parts of a plant, plant types and how they produce their own food from sunlight through photosynthesis. They also learn about transpiration, the process by which plants release moisture to the atmosphere. With this understanding, students test the effects of photosynthesis and transpiration by growing a plant from seed. They learn how plants play an important part in maintaining a balanced environment in which the living organisms of the Earth survive. This lesson is part of a series of six lessons in which students use their evolving understanding of various environments and the engineering design process, to design and create their own model biodome ecosystems.

1st graders LOVE learning about wants and needs and the basics of a market economy. This unit was created with support from the Oakland County School curriculum to help foster their interested in how our economy works. 

The students will be taught all about wants, needs, goods, services, producers, consumers, and how trade works. At the end of the unit, the students will participate in a Market Day to practice the concepts learned. 

Our classroom will be posting often to our classroom SeeSaw page. If you use Google Classroom or Edmodo, you can use them for the students to post their thoughts. 

Other Important Information

This unit is created using Oakland County Schools social studies curriculum. Please download that curriculum at the following link. https://oaklandk12-public.rubiconatlas.org/Atlas/Develop/UnitMap/View/Default?BackLink=811925&SourceSiteID=&UnitID=13466&YearID=2017&CurriculumMapID=51
As a district we utilize Academic Vocabulary as a way to organize students vocabulary words in each subject area. If you are interested in vocabulary word work, there are two options with this unit. First, each lesson has a vocabulary page that you could put into a binder or notebook. (You will find these in the Oakland Lesson Plans in the Suplements.)  Or, you could use the following vocabulary pages for ALL your subjects and house them in a 3 ring binder or folder with fasteners. https://drive.google.com/a/hamiltonschools.us/file/d/0B5FmzPCn6soYX2JuaWctT2RMUDQ/view?usp=sharing

This packet contains exit tickets for Kindergarten Cluster 2, numbers 0-5.

Exit tickets are written responses to questions posed at the end of a lesson. They are brief assessments which allow the teacher to determine student understanding of the concepts and skills taught that day.

At the Kindergarten level, a blank copy of the exit ticket should be displayed on the board and read aloud to students. As teacher reads, students work independently on their own copy of the exit ticket.