Demonstration Lesson: Molecules to Organisms: Structures to Process

Author: Alyssa Walker

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Date lesson to be taught: December 5 2018
Grade Level: 2nd Grade
Source of Lesson:

Concepts: This lesson plan will teach children the life cycle of a flower. It will also teach them
what plants need to survive.

Performance Objectives:
Students will be able to use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals
(including humans) need to survive” (Common Core Standards 6).
● Students will learn through experience what plants need to survive
● Students will learn and see first hand how a seed transforms into a flower

Idaho State Standard/ Common Core:

3-LS1-1 Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but
all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death. [Clarification
Statement: Changes organisms go through during their life form a pattern.]
[Assessment Boundary: Assessment of plant life cycles is limited to those of
flowering plants. Assessment does not include details of human
reproduction.] (Next Generation Science Standards website)
Material list and preparation

For each student:

● 1 cup
● 1 sandwich bag with a cup of soil in it
● 5 seeds
Advanced Preparation
● Teacher should prepare each student a paper sack bag with the listed above materials
in the bags. This way it saves time by handing each student all the materials they
need. This will also help with the mess of the soil.
Supplementary Materials
● Seed to flower life cycle assignment
● Eric Carle The Tiny Seed Book
Safety
Make sure that none of your students eat the seeds or the dirt. Warn them before handing
out the supplies that the fertilizer contains harmful chemicals and not to put it anywhere
near their mouths.

Engagement Time: 10 Minutes

What the teacher will do? Prompting Questions? Students Responses

and Misconceptions

Introduce the concept of a seed Ask students what a seed

needs to survive?

Explain a seed to a flower What needs to happen in

order for a seed to
become a flower?

Hand out supplies Can anyone guess what

is in their brown bag?

Explain the steps of planting their seeds How deep should we

bury our seeds?

Explain the life cycle What is the last step in

the life cycle

Expalin Nutrition What does a seed need?

Summary Can anyone explain the

life cycle of a seed?

Elaboration Time: 5minutes

 What the Teacher Probing/Eliciting
Student Responses and Misconceptions
Will Do Questions

Hand each student their What do you think Students may respond with seeds
own paper sack is inside the brown
bag?

Have the students pull Does a plant need They may respond with sunlight or water
out everything that is in anything else to
the bag survive beside what
is in your sacks?

Evaluation Time: 2 min

What the teacher will do Students

Misconceptions

Hand each student a blank piece of Please draw the life Messing up the different
paper and have them draw the life cycle on your blank stages
cycle piece of paper