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If You Plant a Seed books Bunny and Mouse have found a seed they want to plant and learn about friendship along the way! Full of beautiful images, readers will follow along with the story through pictures more so than words. A great book full of friendship, planting seeds, and how those two things might just be connected. Author: Kadir Nelson Illustrator: Kadir Nelson Publication year: 2015 Publisher: Balzer + Bray ISBN: 978-0062298898 Number of pages: 32 Pages NAAEE: Strand 2: Knowledge of Environmental Processes and Systems Find At Your Library

Informational

From Seed to Plant kids Authors With this book, young students will begin to learn how seeds grow into plants and how they pollinate. Filled with plenty of facts and information, this is a great book to get young learners started on understanding plants. At the end, there are plenty of facts about seeds and plants as well as a project idea to put your new information into practice. Author: Gail Gibbons Illustrator: N/A Publication year: 1993 Publisher: Holiday House ISBN: 978-0823410255 Number of pages: 32 Pages NAAEE: Strand 2: Knowledge of Environmental Processes and Systems Find At Your Library
Topic: Plants, Gardening, Bunny Rabbit, Mouse, Age: Preschool Active Learning Strategy: Flashcards

Type: Flashcards

 

Title: Plant Parts

 

Learning Objective: Using flashcards, students will be able to identify the different parts of a plant and the different stages of plant growth.

 

Description: In this activity, students will correctly identify different parts of the plant lifecycle and different parts of plants using flashcards. The students will read the book From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons and then review a series of flashcards to test them on what they learned. Once they have done this, students will have the chance to create their own flashcards so that they can continue to learn about plants after the lesson is over.

 

Materials: Copy of From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons, flashcards, paper, writing utensils

 

Preparation: Create the flashcards of the different parts of a plant and the different stages of plant growth. Examples HERE and HERE

 

Directions:

  1. Explain the activity to students
  2. Read From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons
  3. Go through the flashcards to test students' knowledge on what they read
  4. Distribute paper or index cards and writing utensils
  5. Have students create their own flashcards so that they can continue to learn following the end of the lesson
  6. Once the students have finished their flashcards, partner the students up and have them run through the flashcards together one last time

 

Notes about this strategy: This strategy was broken up into two parts, but if time is limited, you can always just have the students read and run through the flashcards or read and create their own. Either way, the intention is to test students' knowledge of what they read without using a test.

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Dr. Arnone is a proponent of libraries helping to serve their communities with programming about their local environments. She has taught "Environmental Programming with Libraries" and "Literacy, Inquiry and Nature for Libraries" at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies. She is a certified environmental educator in the state of North Carolina.

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