Count the Syllables
(View Complete Item Description)This worksheet asks students to circle the number of syllables for each word.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
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Make a Word -- at
(View Complete Item Description)In this interactive, students will make a word ending in -at that matches the picture by replacing the first consonant of the word.
Material Type: Interactive
Light Plants and Dark Plants, Wet Plants and Dry Ones
(View Complete Item Description)Students plant sunflower seeds in plastic cups, and once germinated, expose them to varying light or soil moisture conditions. They measure growth of the seedlings every few days using non-standard measurement (inch cubes). After a few weeks, they compare the growth of plants exposed to the different conditions and make bar comparative graphs, which they analyze to draw conclusions about the needs of plants.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Plants Need the Perfect Place
(View Complete Item Description)This original story about plants' dependence on the climate illustrates the theme of the issue of the online, free magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle -- We Depend on Earth's Climate. The story is available at two reading levels, K-2 and 3-5. Four biomes are featured in a walk through a conservatory.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Hands-on Lessons and Activities about Plants
(View Complete Item Description)This article highlights hands-on or multimedia lesson plans about plant structures, growth and development, seed production, and dispersal. Science lessons are paired with suggested literacy lesson plans. All lessons are aligned to national standards.
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Plant and Animal Needs: Presentation
(View Complete Item Description)This supplemental material is meant to be used with the unit "Plant and Animal Needs." In this presentation, students will learn how to make observations that will help students describe patterns of what plants and animals need to survive. A number of labs and activities will provide students with instructions for exploring the needs, habitats, activities, and adaptations of plants and animals.
Material Type: Presentation
All Living Things Need Plants
(View Complete Item Description)In this unit, students will learn about plants/trees and will inquire about the ways all living things need plants. Students speak from the point of view of animal and will persuade someone not to cut down their tree.
Material Type: Unit of Study
1.MD Growing Bean Plants
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Materials - 2 clear plastic cups for each pair of students - 4 bean seeds for each pair - soil - unifix cubes - a plant or math journal to record data ...
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Root Race
(View Complete Item Description)Scholastic?s fun ?Root Race? interactive activity challenges students to race against a clock and ?grow? a root vegetable by reading its visual cues and then giving it just the right amounts of water, air, and food. If students don?t choose wisely, their vegetables shrink in size.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
Sprouting Seeds
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will examine fresh sprouts and obseve the different textures, sizes, and scents. THen they will plant sprout seeds and observe the differences and similarities as they grow.
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Matching Seeds and Fruits
(View Complete Item Description)Students use activity cards to match seeds with the fruits from which they grow. They learn that a seed will produce the same type of plant and seeds.
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Up, Down, and Around
(View Complete Item Description)Do the vegetables grow up, or down or around? In this lessons students find out about the directional property of plants, specifically vegetables and how diffferent vegetables grow above the ground, below the ground and around a trellis or a stake.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Our Big Backyard
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students will observe what kinds of living things live in their own backyard. They will use their senses to obsesrve and record data each season to learn what the physical properties are of plants, animals and other living things, and how these things change throughout the seasons.
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Assessing the Student's Concepts about Print
(View Complete Item Description)This informal assessment checks the student's understanding about the parts of a book or story, where to start and stop reading, and punctuation. The assessment should be performed one-on-one with the student.
Material Type: Assessment
Book Handling
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students develop book-handling skills-holding the book right-side up, turning pages correctly, and following text from left to right and page to page.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Concepts about Print
(View Complete Item Description)Students will learn the organization and basic features of print, including how to follow words on a page.
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Counting Words in a Sentence
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students segment a spoken sentence into separate words.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Dr. Jean and Friends: Author and Illustrator
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students will learn a song about what an author and illustrator do to make a book. There are multiple follow up activities including the students making a class book, author study, author party, and Skype an author.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Follow Words from Left to Right
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students join in on a choral read of A Fun Day and note how words are read from left to right.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
