2-sided help sheet for students (and teachers)
This is an example of uploading an activity you've scanned or created in a Google doc and sharing it via a public link.
This then can be bookmarked and shared in our Diigo group.
Students will help create a fake classroom garden out of craft materials to help them understand the design of a plant. They will have to understand the different parts a plant and how to put the parts together to create a plant.
Post-It (diigo would not let me place a post-it on this pdf page): Students can work in pairs to construct their plants (high ability with a low ability student). Advanced students could put labels on thier plants' parts. Students in higher grades could construct certain species of plants and descibe what makes their plant unique.
Supplementary activity for Diigo 15. Indianapolis Zoo, meets life sciences third grade standards and a host of other standards. Complete curriculum. (Grade 3)
While this activity is intended for third grade, I plan to use some of the facts to teach Kindergarten!
ELL: Use pictures of animals to match with facts (could be used to teach English.)
Gifted: Allow students to have access to all animal cards.
SO excited to find this! For all third grade teachers, this complete program provides content and activities for third grade science standards. (Animal behavior, adaptive behaviors).
Adaptions: for ELL and special need students explain what the items represent by also showing them a picture of the real item when explaining the materials and what they represent.
Extensions: you can extend this activity to younger grades by having kindergartners and 1st graders use cookie cutters instead of straws, they may not have the fine motor skills developed yet to use the straw.