Plants: Supplemental Guide 3B | The Life Cycle of a Plant 89An adult plant can make seeds.
Eventually the plant will die and decay.
[Have students slowly slouch and fall gently to the ground.]
The decayed plant becomes nutrients in the soil.
The seeds of the plant might become new plants.
[Have students crouch down into a ball.]
A new life cycle of a plant begins! Vocabulary Instructional Activity
Word Work: Mature- In the read-aloud you heard, “It takes time for a seedling to grow into
a full-grown, mature, adult.” - Say the word mature with me three times.
- Mature means to become an adult or a full-grown animal or plant. We
also use mature to describe someone who acts like an adult or acts
older than they really are. - A mature animal looks different from a baby animal or a young animal.
- Can you think of ways that someone or something that is mature is
different from someone or something that is young or a baby? Use
the words mature and young when you tell about it. [Ask two or three
students. If necessary, guide and/or rephrase the students’ responses:
“A mature is different from a young because... ”] - What’s the word we’ve been talking about?
Use a Making Choices activity for follow-up. Directions: I will name
several things. If what I name is mature, say, “ is mature.” If what I
name is not mature, but is still young, say, “ is young.” - A seventy-year-old oak tree
- A seventy-year-old oak tree is mature.
- A sapling
- A sapling is young.
- A seedling
- A seedling is young.