Plants Unit

The Plants Unit: Botanical Learning Resource

Featuring content for grades 3 to 7, The Plants Unit beautifully combines fun and comprehensive education, serving as an excellent tool for public school teachers and homeschoolers alike.

Designed with a balanced mix of rigor and accessibility, this unit provides a range of educational resources on plant life.

• Gives extensive information about different aspects of plants.
• Includes an easy-to-understand guide and anchor charts for beginners.

The passages are paired with text-dependent questions to engage thinking and assess understanding. The unit also includes vocabulary cards detailing definitions relevant to the subjects in the passages - perfect support for students still building their scientific vocabulary.

The Plant Research Report

Serving as the central part of this teaching resource, The Plant Research Report sparks student curiosity by offering opportunities to independently delve into botanical studies.

Graphic Organizers & Activities:

• A wide variety from RAFT ideas to Venn Diagrams.
• Ideal for full classroom instruction or independent tasks.

Diverse Additional Materials:

• An Anchor chart outlining student annotation rules
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The Plants Unit serves as a well-rounded instrument to enhance your existing teaching structure, ensuring optimal student engagement in plant studies. Our aim is nothing less than excellence in learning achievements. Remember: nurturing curiosity today nurtures the scientists of tomorrow.

This unit contains the following elements:

• CLOSE reading nonfiction passages:

1. An Introduction to Plants, passage 1, page 1

2. Parts of a Plant, passage 2, pages 2 through 4

3. Photosynthesis, passage 3, page 5

4. Pollination and Seed Dispersal, passage 4, pages 6 and 7

5. Plants on Life on Earth, passage 5, page 8

• Vocabulary cards with definitions, one for each CLOSE reading passage topic-(provided for vocabulary support to scaffold for students who need more support).

• CLOSE Reading Instructions (PowerPoint or handout) explaining the steps of CLOSE Reading.

• Anchor Chart for student annotation and Discussion Topics for CLOSE Reading.

• Student Bookmarks with annotation rules so they have a smaller version of the anchor chart at their desk while they read

• “Text Dependent Questions”

• Common Core Essential questions (to be used after the passages are read, can be used as a summative assessment or a performance task).

• RAFT ideas (explanation included if you’re not familiar with RAFTS).

• Cognitive Content Dictionary (to be made into a “book” for student vocabulary words, definitions, and pictures).

• KWL Chart (you can use this at the beginning of the unit to ascertain what they may already know about plants).

• Venn Diagram to compare and contrast similarities and differences.

• A Tree Map Graphic Organizer ( a grammar component for students to analyze the words in the passages and their parts of speech).

• CLOZE worksheets (a fill-in the blank) worksheet and answer sheet to assess vocabulary attainment and your students’ ability to utilize context clues.