Target Student Performance
Students ask and record specific questions about changes in matter and energy in response to the unit driving question: How do you think that a plant grows, moves, and functions?
Resources You Provide
- Sticky notes (1-2 per student)
- Time-lapse video of plants growing, such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d26AhcKeEbE
Resources Provided
- 1.2 Expressing Ideas and Questions About How Plants Grow PPT
- 1.2 Expressing Ideas and Questions Tool for Plants Growing (1 per student)
- 1.2 Assessing the Expressing Ideas Tool for Plants Growing
- 1.2 Plants Storyline Reading: Learning from the Work of Asima Chatterjee (1 per student)
Recurring Resources
- Questions, Connections, Questions Student Reading Strategy
- Learning Tracking Tool for Plants (1 per student)
- Assessing the Learning Tracking Tool for Plants
- (Optional) Big Idea Probe: Houseplant for a Busy Family (1 per student)
- (Optional) Assessing the Big Idea Probe: Houseplant for a Busy Family
Setup
Prepare your computer for showing the PPT as well as a time lapse video of a plant growing . Have 1 copy for each student of 1.2 Expressing Ideas and Questions Tool for Plants Growing, 1.2 Plants Storyline Reading: Learning from the Work of Asima Chatterjee, and sticky notes. If you are using it, print one copy of the Big Idea Probe: Houseplant for a Busy Family for each student.