TPACK Template

Subject Science

Grade Level Kindergarten

Learning Objective K.7 The student will investigate and understand basic needs
The objective of the lesson is what and life processes of plants and animals. Key concepts
students will be able to do as they
finish the activity. For this objective,
include
use the Standards of Learning (SOL) a) animals need adequate food, water, shelter, air,
to say what you want to focus on.
You can find the SOLs at
and space to survive;
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/ b) plants need nutrients, water, air, light, and a place
look on the right of the screen for the
subjects and go from there.
to grow to survive;
c) plants and animals change as they grow, have
varied life cycles, and eventually die; and
Content

d) offspring of plants and animals are similar but not

identical to their parents or to one another.

Activity Describe what the Although the learning objective is about both plants and
learning activity will be. What will the
students and the teacher be doing?
animals, this activity is mainly centered around plants. Further
(This includes what they are doing introduction to animals and the animal kingdom will be made
with the technology).
later on.

For this activity, students will be given a brief introduction on

plants. They will have a classroom lesson on the parts of the
plant and also what exactly a plant needs to thrive. After this
lesson, the teacher will then have their students log on to
computers to do their SMART Notebook Express activities.

In this specific activity, students do various activities in order

to learn about plants and plant life.
1. In the first slide (not the title slide), students are
introduced to basic plant vocabulary such as seed,
sunlight, water, tree, and plant.
2. In the next slide students are asked to drag and drop
vocabulary words in order to identify parts of the
plant.
3. The next slide is a listening activity that has students
click on each square in order to learn about the life
cycle of a plant.
4. Slide 5 is a simple explanation of what a seed is.
5. Slide 6 asks basic questions about plants.
6. Slide 7 has questions students can click on to complete
Pedagogy

basic activities teaching them more about plants.

7. The last slide asks students to differentiate plants and
animals by dragging and dropping.
 Technology SMART Notebook Express: Plants
The link to the IWB lesson. Important,
Technology
provide the link to the assignment
details, not the link while it is open in http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=20ab9a48-
SmartExpress.
2750-40ca-9ffb-74b3b7774238

Before you submit, delete the explanatory text (the text in small italics).