Group 1: Botany Full Week


Group 1


During fieldwork this week (September 17th-20th) Group 1 taught a 5th grade class at Bishop Dunn in Newburgh, NY about Botany and how important it was for science. Group one also taught the class what pant cells are and the organelles that make them up.




The organelles of a plant cell -->

  • Each teacher taught the class three parts of a plant cell (Ex: the nucleus, mitochondria, extc.).Each teacher had a PowerPoint on each part of a cell using a basic definition to describe the cell part.
-> They used the school to describe the parts of the cells. For example, one teacher said that the cell wall was like a school, provides everyone with protection and everything falls apart without the protections of the cell wall. If the cell wall wasn't there the structure would fall, just like the school walls without the walls there would be no school.
->This tactic seems to be very effective, as the students would sometimes announce the school function except for the name. For example: One boy called the Nucleus the principle, before calling it the Nucleus than he explained the meaning with no problem. That the ended each slide with the guided practice where the students had to go up to the smart board and drag which organelle was in the blank plant cells.
  • They ended the lesson with a spunky rap that the kids loved.

Check out the rap!! 


An idea:
    Make green, yellow, and red flowers on popsicle sticks. Pass out all three colors to each students in the class.Then explain that red flowers means your going too fast, yellow means to slow down, and green flowers means you get the idea.
Tell the class to raise the popsicle stick flower to indicate if they "are good to go on with the lesson", "I need more help" or "I don't get it."
An idea:

Have the students scream the part of the plant they are on after the slide show. Make it a game and have each set of desks be a group and whoever can scream it the loudest win. I think this was a very creative and fun way of repetitively getting the information engraved in the kids heads. It was also a fun way to have the boys finally release their jitters.




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