Missouri Grade Level Expectations

Science

Characteristics and Interactions of Living Organisms

• Recognize plants progress through different life cycles of seed germination, growth and development, reproduction, and death.
• Sequence and describe the stages in the life cycle of a flowering plant.

Communication Arts

• Develop and apply skills and strategies to the reading process.
  
• Develop and apply skills and strategies to comprehend, analyze and evaluate non-fiction (such as biographies, newspapers, technical manuals) from a variety of cultures and times.
• Apply a writing process in composing text.
• Compose well-developed text using standard English conventions.
• Write effectively in various forms of writing.
• Develop and apply effective research process skills to gather, analyze and evaluate information.
• Develop and apply effective skills and strategies to analyze and evaluate oral and visual media.
  

Technology Standards

• Student understands the concept of computer programs and learns to open and close them.
• Student learns to use program help features such as mouse over text, toolbars, program menus, and online help.
• Student leanrs to identify, open, navigate files and folders.
• Student learns about intellectual property and ethical use of another's intellectual property.
• Student learns that presentation software is used to make slideshows on a computer.
• Student learns that presentations are made up of a series of slides that tell a story or present an idea.
  

• Student learns how to navigate through a computer slideshow.
• Student learns what items can be put on a slide, such as pictures, shapes, effects, and text.
• Student learns to browse the World Wilde Web by following links, using booksmarks, and using the back and forward buttons.
• Student will develop a concept of community and apply it to the knowledge of the internet.
• Student will develop an understanding of the need to make responsible choices to ensure personal safety when using the internet.
• Student will develop an inderstanding of the concept of Intellectual Property and apply this understanding to their internet use.
  

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• Introduce unit by completeing a class KWL chart about the life cycle of plants. 
  
• Show the following example PowerPoint presentation.
  
• Students will research plant life cycles and what plants need in order to grow using the internet by clicking on the following link:  www.ikeepbookmarks.com
• Students will record their research findings in a flip book.  Each tab of the flip book will be labled with a page for each life cycle stage, a page for what plants need to survive, and a page for other interesting facts.
• Library time will be utilized to do further research.  Students will add information to their flip books.
  
• Students will work in cooperative groups during Mix-Pair-Share Activity (Kagan Cooperative Learning Structure).  While teacher plays music, students mix around the room.  When the music stops students pair up with someone who is near them.  Students share with their partner at least two interesting facts they have learned about plants during their research.  Sharing time is over when the music begins again.  Repeat until students have had a chance to share several times with different partners.
  

• Students will complete a Power Point Planning Sheet and have the teacher help them edit prior to beginning the Power Point presentation.
• In groups of 2, students will create a Power Point Presentation on the life cycle of a plant.
  
• If students have extra time, they can complete the Plant Life Cycle online activity (click on "Main Session".  This link operates best when opened in Internet Explorer) and/or create a drawing of a plant using Microsoft Paint.
  

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• Microsoft PowerPoint
  
• Internet resources
• Library resources
• Textbook
• Kagan Cooperative Learning Structure
  

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