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Lesson Content
What Standards (national
or state) relate to this SC.2.7.16.1
lesson?
(You should include ALL Observe and describe major stages in the life cycles of plants and animals including
applicable standards. Rarely beans and butterflies.
do teachers use just one:
theyd never get through
them all.)
Objectives- What are you
teaching? Students will be able to observe and describe major stages in the life cycle of a plant
(Student-centered: What will
students know and be able to
do after this lesson? Include Students will be able to investigate and explore data of observations
the ABCDs of objectives:
action, behavior, condition, Essential question: how do plants grow and change?
and degree of mastery, i.e.,
"C: Given a sentence written Materials needed for Engagement
in the past or present tense, Lima bean
A: the student B: will be able Paper towel
to re-write the sentence in Zip block baggy
future tense D: with no errors
in tense or tense contradiction
(i.e., I will see her
yesterday.)."
Note: Degree of mastery does
not need to be a percentage.)

Evaluation Plan- How will

you know students have Formative informal: The students should be able to recite the four major plant life cycle
mastered your objectives? steps.

Address the following: Formative formal: an exit ticket will be given to the student
What formative evidence
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will you use to document

student learning during
this lesson?
What summative evidence
will you collect, either
during this lesson or in
upcoming lessons?

Step-by-Step Plan
(What exactly do you plan to
do in teaching this lesson? Be
thorough. Act as if you needed
a substitute to carry out the
lesson for you.)
Where applicable, be sure to
address the following:
How will materials be
distributed?
How will students
transition between
activities?
What will you as the
teacher do?
What will the students do?
What student data will be
collected during each
phase?
What are other adults in
the room doing? How are
Lesson Implementation
Time Who is 5 Es
responsibl
e (Teacher EXPLORE
or Each student has a zip block bag, soil, water, and a Lima bean at their desks.
Students)? Ask students to study the bean seed that is in front of them with a hand lense.
1:30p They will draw a picture of the bean seed in their science notebooks
Allow students to work together to discover what the bean will need in their
zip block
Light, Air, Water, and Nutrients
Act a facilitator.. guiding questions below
1:35p o What do you think youll need that to aid the beans growth?
Think about the plants outside. What can we give the bean to help it grow?
EXPLAIN
Students should gather around to the carpet
1:45p
Video with proper terminology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=tkFPyue5X3Q&list=PL_J-AyLJZjWCV8hONkunXn6RdvQfVX65N
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they supporting students Stop video periodically to assess students understanding

learning? Optional riddle
What model of co-teaching We have a seed, it germinates, the roots go down, a stem comes up to form
are you using? seedling, and out comes the flower, and then it dies, then the seeds fall down.

1:50p

EXTEND
1:55p
With what we already know, tell a story of one time you found a seed and how
you could have made the seed grow into a plant on your own.
2:00p Write in notebooks then share with your shoulder partner

EVALUATE
Students will complete an exit ticket so I can determine their understanding of
the days lesson.
Throughout the weeks, the students will
o Log in the number of times they water the plant
o Illustrate the measurement of the plants growth.
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Meeting your students The plant life cycle is something we see everyday, therefore the students are able to
needs as people and as make real life connections to the outside world. The students are also able to make
learners connections to the darkling beetle life cycle.

Differentiationbased on
the needs of your students
how will you take
individual and group
learning differences into
account.
Differentiation:
Enriched students will have to match the plant life cycle with pictures rather than labels
Remedial students will have to match the pictures to the stages of the plant life cycle.
For the ELL students, they will have larger font with an anchor chart provided.

Reflection:
I was actually eager to write this reflection because I feel as thought I have some concepts I need to work on! Overall,
the 5 Es lesson plan was something that I was completely unfamiliar with, so I was not sure how it would go even after I
planned it out in my head over and over again. After rewatching my video, I am aware of some point I could improve. I
notice many children not paying attention. However, I did want this to be an open discussion in hope of all student
participating because they are engaged, for this did not go as planned. Some children did not care for the content while
others were exceptionally eager to answer my questions. While I did call on students who were not actively engaged,
there were some that would be so excited to answer, but I did not correct their whole body listening. I know now that I
should keep a discussion to me calling on the students to answer rather than hoping that all students will be engaged. I
also noticed that students were waving to my camera in the back of the classroom, so I was obviously not paying
attention to each and every student. I was impressed with the students pase every time they were given a task. From
this, I conclude that I need to work on my classroom management. My collaborative teacher actually informed me that I
should not clean up materials while students are working. I learned this behavior from working at a day care for a few
years. I was always taught to be productive and multitask throughout the day. This whole groups lesson taught me that
there are a lot of things I need to work on! Especially teaching through the 5es