Flowers Lesson

SETON HILL UNIVERSITY
Lesson Plan Template Abridged

(May be adapted based on instructors needs)
Pre-Planning
TOPIC
Name
Subject
Grade Level
Date/Duration
Standards/ anchors/
competencies
PA/Common
Core/Standards
(Plus any others as
may be required)
Formative AND/OR
Summative
Assessment
Evidence
Objective
A-B-C-D
Bloom's Taxonomy
Life Cycle of Flowers

Miss Michele Morgan
Science
Preschool
March 27, 2015 20 Minutes
PA Early Learning Standards
Science
3.1 PK.A.3 Recognize that plants and animals grow
and change.
Language Arts
1.2 PK.B Answer questions about a text.
1.3 PK.K With prompting and support, actively engage
in group reading activities with purpose and
understanding.
Formal Evaluation
Students will be evaluated based on whether or not
they are able to identify the correct order of the flower
life cycle booklet.
Informal Evaluation
After reading The Tiny Seed, the teacher will ask
students to recall the journey the seed took to become
a flower.
Individually, the students will be able to identify the
order of the life cycle of a flower 1/1 times.
As a group, the students will be able to act out the life
cycle of a flower 1/1 times, as modeled by the teacher.
CK
Webb's Depth of
Knowledge (DOK)
Step-by-Step Procedures
RATIONALE for the This lesson plan introduces the life cycle of a flower to
Learning Plan
students. Students will identify the order of the life cycle of a
flower when given picture representations of the steps.
Students will also act out the life cycle of a flower as a class.
This connects to the PA Standards through the children
learning about how plants change over time as they grow.
Introduction
Activating Prior Knowledge
Who can tell me what season it is right now?
What happens during spring?
Hook/Lead-In/Anticipatory Set
Show students the cover of the book The Tiny Seed
What do you see on the cover of the book?
What do you think the book might be about?
This book is called The Tiny Seed. Eric Carle
CK
Explicit
Instructions
Big Ideas
Essential
Questions
Lesson Procedure
Must include
adaptations &
accommodations
for students with
special needs
Accommodations,
Modifications
wrote the words and drew the pictures.

Transition: Open, Shut Them
Big Idea Statement
Living things have unique characteristics which differ
from non-living thing. The characteristics of living things
can be observed and studied.
Essential Questions
How does a flower grow?
Key Vocabulary
Plant, Seed, Roots, Sprout, Flower, Bloom
Pre-Assessment of Students
Students will be asked what season we are in and what
happens during spring. (See Activating Prior Knowledge
Section.)
Modeling of the Concept
1. Read The Tiny Seed to students.
While reading, ask: Do you think the tiny seed will
be able to keep up with the others?, Why do you
think the seed couldnt grow?, Do you think it is
too late for the tiny seed to grow?, What do you
think will happen to the flower now that it is fall?
2. Review story with students.
What happened to the tiny seed in the story?
3. Explain that the plant started out as a seed and ended
up as a flower at the end of the book. Explain that this
is the life cycle of a flower.
A life cycle is how something grows and
changes.
4. Explain parts of the life cycle of a flower to students.
Put up picture steps for flower life cycle.
Plant seed.
Grows roots.
Seed sprouts.
Flower blooms.
New seeds blow away.
Guiding the Practice
5. Now, we are going to act out the life cycle of a
flower. Im going to show you first, and then we will do it
together.
Crouch down like a seed
Stomp feet like roots digging into the soil
Jump up tall like the seed sprouting
Raise hands above head for blooming flower
Hands wave in the air like seeds blowing away in
the wind
6. Students will sit back down on their tape.
7. Next, we are going to put the pieces of the flower life
cycle in order in a book.
Materials
(reading,
technology,
equipment,
supplies, etc.)
Closure
Other(This area
is to be
Show students pages of book laid out on floor

separated.
The teacher will give you a bag of pages with the
steps of the life cycle of a flower. You will put the
pages in order and show it to the teacher. The
teacher will tell you if your book is right and put it
together for you. Then, you can color the pages if
you have time.
Transition: When moving to the tables, students will
reach to the sky like flowers. Students will be called to
the tables based on the color their name is written in on
their name tag.
Providing the Independent Practice
8. Students will put pages of flower life cycle book in
order and the teacher will staple it when they have put it
in the correct order.
If students have trouble with this step, the teacher
may ask students to think about the journey the
seed made in the book. The teacher may also
reference what the children did when acting the
life cycle out together.
9. Students will color the book as time permits.
10. If time, students will play with table toys on the
carpet.
Transition: When moving back to the circle, students will
fly like a seed blowing in the wind.
Adaptations/Accommodations for Students with Special Needs
Students may be shown two pictures at a time as versus
all five pictures. The teacher will ask the student which
came first out of the pictures shown.
The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
Pictures for Life Cycle
Life Cycle of a Flower Booklet
Crayons
Stapler
Name Tags
Ziplock Bags
Summary & Review of the Learning
Students will return to their pieces of tape
What did we learn about today?
Who can tell me what happens first when a flower
grows?
Repeat with second through fifth steps in flower
life cycle.
Homework/Assignments
Share the Flower Life Cycle Book with families.
determined by
instructor OR
student as
needed)
Supervising
teacher
comments and
signature
Teacher
Self-reflection
What
worked?
What would
you
change?

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SETON HILL UNIVERSITY

Lesson Plan Template Abridged

Life Cycle of Flowers

wrote the words and drew the pictures.

Show students pages of book laid out on floor

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