ipt science plan

 

Name: Leah Garrett
Title: Plant Growth
Summary: This lesson will help students to get an understanding that water is a very important part of plant growth. Additionally they will begin to understand how water travels up the stem to nourish the plants.
Primary Core Objective:   Standard 3 Students will develop an understanding of their environment. Objective 1 Investigate plants and plant growth. a.    Observe and describe plants as they grow from seeds. c.    Investigate and report conditions that affect plant growth.
Materials Used by the Teacher: Jars Paper towel strips Computers Probes Graph paper/transperancies Journals	Materials Used by the Students: Journals Jars Paper towels Rulers Probes Computer –excel programs Graph paper/transperancies
Technologies Used by the Teacher: The teacher will use the projector and the computer to show the students how to input and give them an example of how to input their data.	Technologies Used by the Students: The students will use the projector to present. The computer to input their data and organize their graphs to present Several probes to gather additional information, like temperature probes to see how temperature affects the water and how it travels.
Intended Learning Outcomes: Students will learn that water is key to plants growing but also that it travels up through the stem using the stem and t raveling up like a straw. Students will become more interested in plants and become excited for the unit that will follow. They will also have an understanding of how to gather data.
Instructional Procedures: This lesson will be very student directed with just guidance from the teacher so that the students can really get the full experience of experimenting and asking questions. Because this is a younger grade the results that follow will be simpler but they will be gaining the foundation knowledge. I will have the jars and paper towels ready to go. The students will begin by measuring the strips. Then they will make predictions in their journal about what they think will happen when we place those in the different color water. (I will make sure to explain that the strips represent plant stems) Then the students will place the strips in the water and after intervals of time, measure how far the water travels. They will record their results in their journals as well as other observations that they are making. After they have completed this they will write whether their predictions were right and then come up with a different way to measure what is happening and to change the experiment. Like changing the temperature of the water to see if this changes the results or changing the water level or using a different material, etc. Then the groups of students will work together to put their information into the computer so they can see their graphs. They will then have a transperancy where they draw the graph that is shown Each group will share their results and their explanation of what happened. After each group we will discuss it as a class and begin our plant lesson.
Extensions: If students need another challenge, they can make another change to their experiment like the height of the strips or even draw a picture of a plant and label where the water is traveling and could even use the computer to show the path of the water travelling.
Assessment Plan: This is just an introduction to the plant unit so I will just be assessing how they interact as a group and work together. I will also be looking that the students are completing the activity, are taking notes, and that they have a graph to present.