22 Plants: Supplemental Guide 1A | Introduction to Plants
- Read the following list to students. Have students identify whether
what you say is living or nonliving. Be sure to provide feedback and,
when necessary, correct student responses by helping them use and
apply the criteria for living things—the need for food, water, and air
and the ability to reproduce.
Note: Please use pictures/realia of living and nonliving things you
have prepared for this activity.
- a n t
- An ant is living.
- tree
- A tree is living.
- pencil
- A pencil is nonliving.
- cat
- A cat is living.
- desk
- A desk is nonliving.
- crayon
- A crayon is nonliving.
- t e a c h e r
- A teacher is living.
- bowl
- A bowl is nonliving.
- flower
- A flower is living.
Introducing Plants
- Tell students that in today’s lesson, they will see many different types
of plants that live in different places—or environments—around the
world. - Show students the pictures or realia of different types of plants you
have prepared. See if they can name some of the plants. - Show students a completed My Plants Pages booklet. Tell them that
they will draw a picture of what they learned or something interesting
they remember for each lesson. They may also dictate or label what
they have drawn.