20 Plants: Supplemental Guide 1A | Introduction to Plants
items throughout this domain to help make domain concepts more
concrete.
For Vocabulary Preview, bring in several different kinds of potted plants,
preferably a few that have flowers, so that students can examine the soil
while learning about the word soil. You may wish to use the potted plants
throughout this domain to provide visual and hands-on opportunity to
solidify domain concepts.
For Vocabulary Instructional Activity, prepare pictures showing a few of
the same thing and pictures showing many (plenty) of the same thing to
help students understand the concepts few and plenty. You may wish
to gather common items such as paper clips, crayons, or clothespins to
show few and plenty.
Note to Teacher
Help students gain an understanding of living vs. nonliving things and
a realization that all living things need food, air, and water. There are
several opportunities in the lessons to reinforce the domain concepts of
living and nonliving. There are also many opportunities to review plants
and their needs.
In this lesson students will learn that different plants thrive in different
environments. Be sure that students can identify the names of
the different environments portrayed in this lesson: forest, desert,
underwater, park, and home/indoors. You may wish to use the song in
Lesson 1C to review these different environments and to reinforce the
domain concept that all plants have similar needs even though they live in
different places.