3rd Grade Plants Unit

3^rd Grade Plants Unit Blueprint

Lesson 16: Harvesting and Threshing the Seeds

STC Plant Growth and Development

Pacing Suggestions:
See page 4 in Teacher's Guide for a schedule of Lessons.

Teacher Resources:
	End of Unit Assessment (Adobe^® Reader^® PDF) End of Unit Assessment (Microsoft^® Word^®) Answer Key (Adobe Reader PDF) Answer Key (Microsoft Word)

Essential & Unit Questions ¹

Benchmarks ²

Assessments ³

Using Assessments to Monitor Student Learning

What is a life cycle?

What is the relationship between flowers and bees and why is it important?

Besides providing food, what are some ways different living things work together?

What makes up soil? Where do the parts come from?

5D(3-5)#3: Organisms interact with one another in various ways besides providing food. Many plants depend on animals for carrying their pollen to other plants or for dispersing their seeds.

5E(3-5)#3: Over the whole earth, organisms are growing, dying, and decaying, and new organisms are being produced by the old ones.

4C(3-5)#2: Rock is composed of different combinations of minerals. Smaller rocks come from the breakage and weathering of bedrock and larger rocks. Soil is made partly from weathered rock, partly from plant remains—and also contains many living organisms.

Class discussion comparing the non-pollinated plants (set aside after Lesson 4) to the students' plants.

Summative Assessment: End-of-Unit Assessment (Sheet available on electronic curriculum. Also, see Teacher Tips.)

Class discussion about the life cycle of plants and the life cycle of organisms in general.

Class discussion:

Do students understand the interdependence of flowers and bees?
Do students understand the life cycle of the plant?
Can students relate their classroom observations of the plant life cycle with other life cycles?

Summative Assessment:
See Answer Key under "eacher Resources."

1. For conceptual benchmarks.
2. Bolded sections indicate portion of benchmark addressed
3. Unless noted as a Summative Assessment, the assessments are formative and should be used to guide teaching and learning.

3rd Grade Plants Unit Blueprint

3^rd Grade Plants Unit Blueprint