Introduction
Welcome, my little plant explorers!🌱🌼 Have you ever wondered how a tiny seed goes into such a big beautiful flower? In this webquest lesson, get ready because you'll become a plant scientist and discover the lifecycle of a plant. At the very end, you will be able to name the stages of the plant lifecycle and explain what a plant grow. Let's start our plant adventure!
Guiding Questions:
How does the tiny seed grow into a plant?
What do plants need to grow and stay healthy?
Why do plants need sunlight?
Learning Objective: by the end of this webquest lesson, you'll be able to identify the stages of a plants lifecycle and explain what the plant needs to grow.
Florida Science Standard, SC.1.L.14.1 - recognizing the basic needs and lifecycle of plants.
Bloom taxonomy, understand and explain the stage of a plants lifecycle.
Task
Plant Explorers, it's your turn now! 🍃 You will work with your group to create a beautiful and colorful poster about the lifecycle of a plant. Together, you will draw an out pictures of the four stages and write a simple fact about each stage. When your poster is finished, your group will present it in front of the class.
Process
Step One: watch a short video about the lifecycle of a plant with your class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7viA16-J2K0 Monster math presents multiplication
Step Two: read a short story and look at the pictures about how plants grow.
Step Three: work with your group and talk about the four stages of a plants lifecycle.
Step Four: each student must have a special job.
Artist: cuts and pastes or draws the pictures
Writer: writes a simple fact for each stage.
Researcher: looks for the facts in the book or video with the teacher and group.
Speaker: shares the poster with the class
Step Five: look at the teachers google classroom to follow the directions and share your group work.
Asynchronous Tool - Google Classroom
Step Six: create your plant lifecycle poster together
Step Seven: present your poster to the class and explain all the different four stages of the plant life cycle.
Evaluation
| Criteria | Excellent (4) | Good (3) | Needs improvement (2) |
| Plant life cycle | Includes all four stages correctly. | Includes most stages correctly. | Missing or wrong stages. |
| Pictures & labels | All the pictures are colorful and neat and labeled correctly. | Most of their pictures and labels are correct. | Pictures and labels are missing. |
| Teamwork | Worked well with their group and everyone completed their own job. | Worked with the group most of the time. | Had to get told to work with their group. |
| Presentation | Spoke clearly and explained the poster. | Explained more than half of the poster. | Needed help expanding the poster. |
Conclusion
Awesome Job, Plant Explores!! 🌿⭐️ you were able to learn about the four stages of a plants lifecycle and what the plants need to grow huge and strong. Now you're able to identify how a tiny seed can grow into so big beautiful plant. Keep exploring by visiting National Geographic Kids to learn more about plants and nature with your family and friends.