Kindergarden - Plants

150 Plants: Supplemental Guide 7 | Plants and People

At a Glance Exercise Materials Minutes

Introducing the Read-Aloud

My Plant Pages example of a completed Plant Page

15

Introducing “Plants and People”

pictures/realia of living and

nonliving things;

edible plant parts (see chart

below)

Vocabular y Preview:

Oxygen, Provide

Purpose for Listening

Presenting the Read-Aloud Plants and People Response Card 1^10

Discussing the Read-Aloud Comprehension Questions Image Cards 2–12^10

 Stop! Complete Remainder of the Lesson Later in the Day

Extensions

Multiple Meaning Word Activity:

Pit Poster 3M (Pit)

15

Syntactic Awareness Activity:

Making Compound Sentences

Using and

Vocabulary Instructional

Activity: Scrumptious

drawing paper, drawing tools;

pictures of food; glue or tape;

scissors (optional)

End-of-Lesson Check-In

Chart of Common Edible Plant Parts

Roots Stems Leaves Seeds Flowers Fruits

potato

carrot

beet

radish

turnip

celery

sugar cane

asparagus

lettuce

cabbage

spinach

parsley

basil

wheat

corn

rice

beans

oats

barley

cauliflower

broccoli

apple

tomato

orange

Advance Preparation

Have an example of a completed Plant Page for Lesson 6 available for

students to reference.

For Introducing “Plants and People,” prepare images and/or realia of

different edible plant parts. Refer to the chart above for ideas of various

items you may choose to share with your students. You may wish to let

students sample some of these plant parts.