Plants: Supplemental Guide 6A | Evergreen Trees 141
Show image 9A-8: Pine branch and oak branch
Remember, most trees are either evergreen trees or deciduous trees.
Next time you see a tree, try to figure out whether it is an evergreen
or a deciduous tree. The leaves may give you your first clue.
[Hold up the leaves and needles you have prepared one at a time.]
Is this leaf from a deciduous tree or evergreen tree?
[You may choose to have students stand up if it is leaf from a deciduous tree
and stay seated if it is leaf from an evergreen tree.]
Discussing the Read-Aloud 10 minutes
Comprehension Questions
If students have difficulty responding to questions, reread pertinent lines
of the read-aloud and/or refer to specific images. Encourage students to
answer in complete sentences. Model answers using complete sentences
for students.
- Inferential What is the main topic, or main idea, of today’s lesson?
- The main topic of today’s lesson is evergreen trees.
- Literal What are evergreen trees?
- Evergreen trees are trees that stay green all year around.
- Literal What are the leaves of an evergreen tree called?
- Leaves of an evergreen tree are called needles.
- Inferential Why are the needles of an evergreen tree important?
- The needles are important because photosynthesis takes place in the
needles.
- The needles are important because photosynthesis takes place in the
- Literal What do evergreen trees produce that contain the seeds?
- Evergreen trees produce cones.
- Evaluative Tell your partner about the life cycle of an evergreen tree.
Use the words seed, seedling, sapling, mature tree, and cones.
[If necessary, guide the class through the life cycle of a pine tree. You may have
students crouch down and pretend that they are a seed, then have them slowly
stand up straight as they become a seedling, sapling, and mature tree.]
[Please continue to model the Think Pair Share process for students, as
necessary, and scaffold students in their use of the process.]