TEACHING SEQUENCE
Pacing / Minutes LESSON PHASES
5 minutes Warm-Up / Do Now
Bring some seeds and share personal experiences about plants (e.g., planting a garden, getting a plant for the classroom).
20 minutes Listen to the story “The Tiny Seed” online. Talk to children about the story and discuss the big ideas. Set the purpose for the lesson. Introduce the objectives of the lesson. Create a Word Bank with key vocabulary words (refer to the Vocabulary/Concept section).
20 minutes: Instructional Phase
Watch the video “The life cycle of a Plant.” Discuss information with the students. Have children draw a picture of the life cycle of a plant in their journals.
15 Minutes: Have children work with a partner and select a part of a plant and do a quick writing about it (Children in level 1 can write in their native language or draw an illustration).
25 minutes: Next, have children search online for information about the part of the plant they chose and record the information in their journals. They will be provided with some websites where they can find useful information about their topic (refer to the list of websites at the bottom of this lesson).
5 minutes Closure
Get together as a whole group and wrap-up the lesson for the day. Ticket out: Write on a sticky note 1 fact you learned about plants.