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NGSS Lesson Planning Template

Grade/ Grade Band: 1

Topic: Plants

Lesson # Plant Life Cycle &

plants Parts in a series of Plants
lessons

Brief Lesson Description:

Plant is a living organism naturally is green; like trees, herbs, grasses or even mosses. All of them needs
and absorb sun, water and soil to grow. Generally, plants have main parts which are roots, stem, leaves,
flowers and fruits. Each of these parts have certain functions that support the plants growing.
Plants life cycle is the continuous sequence of changes beginning from the seed ending to flowering then
produce seed again.
Performance Expectation(s):
1-LS1-1
Use materials to design a solution to a human problem, how plants use their external parts to help them
grow and meet their needs. Students will do an experiment by planting soybean and will take their notes
throw 9 days by drawing their observation in a journal worksheet. Students needs materials and listen to
curious questions to develop their critical thinking and expectations about the solutions for these inquiries.
Specific Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the lesson,
Realize similarities between human and plant growth
Discover how plants grow?
Be familiar with what are main parts of plants?
Narrative / Background Information
Prior Student Knowledge:
Students understand that plants are alive.
May know that plants need water to grow, without knowing the needs of sun and soil.
Identify some parts of plant, like leaves, flowers, seeds
Science & Engineering Practices:
Constructing explanations and
designing solutions:
(Students will extend their prior
knowledge for flowering plant)
Obtaining, evaluating, and
communication information:
(At the end of the experiment,
students will record their
observation by the worksheets)

Disciplinary Core Ideas:

Structure and Function:
(All organisms have external
parts, will realize similarities
comparison between human
and plant)
Information Process:
(Plants have parts, and need
sources to grow, proper amount
of water, sun, soil by doing the
experiment.)

Crosscutting Concepts:
Structure and Function:
(Students will record the
changes of their plant
growth, then will know how
sources effect to its growth)

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Possible Preconceptions/Misconceptions:
Some students may thoughts that plant is alive, so it needs food to still alive and not die.
They thoughts that food is the same what animal and human eat. Plants need food, but for plants it called
element which they absorb them from the soil.
LESSON PLAN 5-E Model
ENGAGE: ( 7 min ) On the Floor
Opening Activity Access Prior Learning / Stimulate Interest / Generate Questions:
1- Pre lesson video:
Before the lesson time, a video song about planting will be played for attract them to this class and
make them excited about it.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swxz69l5coA
2- Greeting & Reminding Rules
It is important to do it as routine, to save the lesson time, and kids learn by routine.
3- Video Song:
Play video song to get engage students to start the lesson. The song is (Head, shoulder, knees & toes
Body Parts), this video is good beginning for them to review the human body parts that will make them
to make connections between human and plants (mentally). And to facilitate to the teacher to talk
about plant and describe its parts. Its perfect also to activate them (physically) as its their last class of
the day.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZanHgPprl-0
4- Quick Discussion:
Quick discussion with whole class about the topic, ex:
Q: What am I? (A: Human, I am alive)
Q: Tell me another thing alive? Something green! (A: plant, trees)
Q: What makes a plant to grow? (A: soil, water or rain, sun)
Q: What do we need to grow a plant? (A: same thing)
EXPLORE: ( 15 min ) Lesson Description Materials Needed / Probing or Clarifying Questions:
1- Experiment: Growing Soybean: (On the table)
Teacher will work with one group and to grow a soybean in front of the kids in clear steps, one by one
with clearly voice, while the rest are listening and waiting their turn to have their chance to plant their
own seed.
2- Video: (On the Floor)
Will show the kids time-lapse of Bean Germination, I expect from kids that will so surprise and excited
to have an idea hoe their plants will grow throw the days, and will encourage them to take care of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB4ASdELBbQ

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EXPLAIN: ( 10 min )
Concepts Explained and Vocabulary Defined:
1- Presentation PPT: (On the Floor)
Compression between similarities of human (Me/You) and a Plant. It will be as a table shows the
growing stages foe both. The kid will make connections and realize that plants passes throw many
stages until it become a tree. The move them to the next slide which show them the plant with its parts.
2- Vocabulary:
- Plant = Tree
- Grow
- Seed

- Been
- Germinate
- Roots

- Germinate
- Stem
- Needs

ELABORATE: ( 15 min )
Applications and Extensions:
Students will be divided into 2 groups.
Group 1: High and Medium to high level with assistant (On the table). Group 2: Low and Medium level with
Me (On the Floor).
1- Flash Cards & Worksheet Activity:
Group 1: First will order the parts of the plants from the flash cards, then match its name to the part
picture in pairs. When they finish, they will have worksheets with drawn flower and vocabulary box,
kids will label each part and write them beside the part. For extra time: they can color the flower
picture by the colors on their table.
2- Poster Activity:
- Material needed: Poster, real leaves, 4 green stew, wool yarns, 3 cupcake paper, seeds, glue. The
poster is A5 size, already painted a background of soil sky with smiley sun.
- Group 2: Will sit on the carpet in a big circle and I will be sitting with them, the poster will be in the
middle of the circle, with the materials. The kids will pass a box contain their name in piece of paper
while singing (What in the box?), when they finish song the kid will choose one name to help him
to paste one part of the plant on the poster.
EVALUATE: ( 3 min )

1- Formative Monitoring (Questioning / Discussion):

Discuss with the 2 groups what they did, give brief description.
2- Summative Assessment (Quiz / Project / Report):
Next class, students will observe their plants and draw the changes, for 9 days.
Extra Time:
Play a video with title: How does a seed grow?
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGCZXx_Pczo