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NC- North Carolina DPI Elementary Education Specialty Area Standards
Standard: Standard 3: Elementary teachers have a broad knowledge and understanding of the major concepts in science.
Indicator: Indicator 1: Teachers have knowledge of basic life science concepts including:
Detail: Structure and function of plants, animals, and their parts
Standard: Standard 7 : Elementary teachers use developmentally appropriate strategies to design and deliver instruction in all areas of the elementary curriculum.
Indicator: Indicator 1: Teachers develop and implement the pacing and alignment of curriculum that is consistent with the NC SCOS, LEA standards and pacing guides, and national standards in all subject areas.
Indicator: Indicator 2: Teachers understand and use an interdisciplinary approach to teaching by connecting and integrating language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, healthful living, and arts concepts and processes, with appropriate technologies to enhance their teaching.
Indicator: Indicator 3: Teachers promote new learning by using students’ prior knowledge, misconceptions, and interests when designing lessons.
Indicator: Indicator 4: Teachers implement a variety of teaching and communication strategies for instruction.
Indicator: Indicator 5: Teachers assist students in developing multiple learning strategies to address discipline specific content, critical thinking, and problem solving skills.
Indicator: Indicator 6: Teachers modify instruction and assessments to meet the needs of individual students.
Indicator: Indicator 7: Teachers develop and use a variety of formal and alternative assessment strategies as an integral part of instruction and learning appropriate for assessing individual, peer, team, and collaborative skills.
Standard: Standard 10: Teachers provide active inquiry experiences in the teaching of science by using various questioning skills and developing science processing skills (predicting, classifying, measuring, inferring, interpreting, analyzing, and synthesizing).
Standard: Standard 15: Elementary teachers encourage underrepresented groups to engage in the schooling process, especially math and science.
Indicator: Indicator 1: Teachers use a variety of strategies to encourage underrepresented groups to engage in the schooling process, especially math and science. They:
Detail: Use relevant and real-world applications that interest a diverse population

5E Lesson Plan Rationale

Plants: Growing Your Own Marigolds!

Context

 

During my Block II internship at Mountain View Elementary School, in Ashe County I was placed in a first grade class under Mrs. Ashley Fields.  While I was in this classroom, I was required to design and carry out a 5E Science Lesson that would work in with Mrs. Fields curriculum plan.  Along with my cooperating teacher’s help, we decided that I should teach the lesson as a part of my unit on plant life.  The lesson focuses on the needs of plants, and provides students with the information needed to grow their own healthy plants.

 

Impact

 

As a teacher, I will be able to use this lesson as a tool for teaching my own students about the needs of plants.  Because of my experience with this lesson, I have gained the knowledge of how to adequately teach my students about the needs of plants while using engaging and inquiry based activities.  As a result of this lesson, I feel that my students were able to learn how and why a plant requires soil, water, and sunlight.  They learned this through their observations and comparisons of what happens to plants that both have all the needs provided to them and that do not have all of the needs provided to them.

 

Alignment

 

I met standard 3, indicator 1 through the reflection of my knowledge of the structure and function of plants within this lesson.

 

I met standard 7, indicator 1 through the planning of my lesson along with the pace of the first grade curriculum.  The concepts involved within the study of the needs of plants are a part of this curriculum.

 

I met standard 7 indicator 2 through my ability to integrate math into the lesson through the use of measurement.  I also provided a way to integrate language arts into this lesson through the construction of a story about their lives as seeds. 

 

I met standard 7, indicator 3 through the use of the students’ prior knowledge (KWL chart) and interests (plants for Mother’s Day) when I designed this lesson.

 

I met standard 7, indicator 4 through my use of a variety of teaching strategies within my lesson.  I taught my students using hands-on activities, and discussions.  I also met this standard by using a variety of communication strategies within my lesson.  I allowed my students to communicate orally and by writing in their science journals.

 

I met standard 7, indicator 5 through my development of multiple learning strategies to address the needs of plants, critical thinking involving their hypotheses for the outcomes of their plants, and problem solving skills for how to adequately care for their Mother’s Day plants.

I met standard 7, indicator 7 through the modifications that I provided within my lesson for ADHD, ESL, and academically gifted students.

 

I met standard 10 through my ability to ask inquiry based questions throughout the lesson and through the use of science processing skills such as predicting (the outcomes of their plants), measuring (the growth of their plants), analyzing (the differences between the plants) and interpreting (why the differences exist). 

 

I met standard 15, indicator 1 by providing a connection between the lesson and the real world through their growth of plants.  The activities within the lesson provided students with an example for what the plants in their environment needed to grow.

File Attachments:
  1. 5E Lesson Reflection 5E Lesson Reflection
  2. 5E Plant Lesson 5E Plant Lesson
  3. Pictures of Students' Plants Pictures of Students' Plants
  4. Science Lesson Reflection Data Chart Science Lesson Reflection Data Chart
Author: Lori M. Dillard
Last modified: 11/15/2006 2:59 PM (EST)