Kindergarden - Plants

Plants PP | Pausing Point 105

Student Performance Task Assessment

 Plant Parts (Instructional Master PP-1)

Using Instructional Master PP-1, have students add to the drawing of the

plant stem. Check to ensure they include roots, leaves, and flowers. Walk

around and talk with students about each plant part as they complete the

worksheet.

Activities

The Giant Turnip

Materials: Tell It Again! Read-Aloud Anthology for Plants

Read “The Giant Turnip” (Lesson 4 from the Tell It Again! Read-Aloud

Anthology for Plants).

You may choose to have students act out this story.

To review the life cycle of a turnip, you may choose to have students

complete Instructional Master 4B-1 from the Tell It Again! Read-Aloud

Anthology for Plants.

Plant Parts Review

Materials: Various plants; drawing paper, drawing tools

Bring in different plants and ask students to identify the parts.

After talking about plants, have students design and illustrate their own

plant on a piece of paper, instructing them to include all parts of a plant

(root, stem, branch, and leaf). Have students share their drawings and

identify the parts of their plant while sharing. Their classmates may also

want to guess where the parts of that particular plant are located on the

drawing.

➶ Humans vs. Plants

Compare and contrast human beings and plants. Questions students

may wish to explore: How are plants and humans the same and how are

they different? What do we need to keep our bodies healthy that plants

also need to stay healthy? Record student answers on a Venn diagram.