Unit essential question:

What are the parts of the flowers and their functions?

What do plants need to survive?
Lesson question:
What do plants need to survive?
NYS Science Core Curriculum standard:
1.1b Plants require air, water, nutrients, and light in order to live and thrive

Lesson objective:

Assessment:

Students will learn the things that a plant needs

to survive and grow (soil, air, water, sunlight).

Students will be asked to name the things that a

plant needs to survive.

4/4 mastery
2-3/4 capable
0-1/4 reteach

IEP goals addressed:

-Student will eliminate negative behavior throughout the school day (behavior chart)
-Student will participate in a variety of structured activities by commenting, requesting, and
responding with appropriate in formation and manner related to the topic.
-Student will improve fine motor and visual motor control and accuracy for greater success and
independence in academic activity.
Opening:
We will go over the parts of the plant (flower, seed, stem, leaf, and root) and their functions. I
will draw a flower on the board, the students will help me to label it. Well review the plant
functions on the smartboard as the students match their plant cards.
Procedure:
I will pull up a new smart notebook page on the smartboard. We will discuss the things that
plants need to survive.
I will go over why a flower needs these things and what plant parts take them in.
*Plants make their own food (photosynthesis)

*Roots take in water and nutrients from the soil.

*Leaves take in air and sunlight.
Tiered by complexity:
Group 1: Students will match plant parts to their function
Group 2: Students will match pictures of the plant parts to their written names.
One student will be using proloquo2Go
Closure/assessment:
I will go to students while they are working and ask them the four things that plants need to
survive.
Materials:
matching cards
smartboard
ipad set up
scissors
glue
worksheets