KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

LESSON PLAN FORMAT

Teacher Candidate: Alison Waldron

Date: 3/14/14

Cooperating Teacher: N/A

Coop. Initials: N/A

Group Size: 30

Grade Level: 3rd Grade

Allotted Time: 60 minutes

Subject or Topic: Science - Organisms

Section: EEU 205

STANDARD(S):
S3.B.1.1.3: Describe the basic needs of plants and animals and their dependence on light,
food, air, water, and shelter.
S3.B.2.1.1: Identify adaptations of plants and animals that have helped them to survive.
S3.B.2.1.2: Identify and describe plant and animal characteristics that are necessary for
survival.
I. Performance Objectives (Learning Outcomes):
A. Students will match the plant to the place on the body that the plant will help
heal
B. Students will be able to identify which plant is used for which body part
C. Students will be able to work in groups to finish their project
D. Students will be able to present what they learned and researched through a
small group project
II.

Instructional Materials
A. For teacher:
Scissors
1. To cut out sheets of paper before class
Additional project materials
1. Poster board
B. Children
Butcher paper
Markers

Sticky tape
Yarn
Pictures of plants
Plenty of room to lay out

III.

Subject Matter/Content (prerequisite skills, key vocabulary, big idea)

A. Pre-requisites
Fine motor skills
Group/Social skills
1. Taking turns
2. Project
Some Social Studies vocabulary (listed below)
Computer/Research Skills
B. Key Vocabulary/Content
Native Americans
Pioneers
Medicine
Healing
Physicians
Pharmacists
Scientific method (trail and error)
Various plants and their names
C. Big Idea:
How and what are some plants used for medicine and healing?
D. Content:
Human anatomy
Different types of plants
What is so important about plants?

IV.

Implementation
A. Introduction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmyn6trPpjo
Start video at 0:37
End video at 2:04
Ask questions
1. What were these women talking about?
a. What were they saying the plants were used for?
2. Why do you think I showed you this video?
3. What do you think plants are used for other than for food?
Do not let the students know if they are correct or not
4. Wait until inquiry activity
Divide the students in to pairs

 Assign one to trace first and the other to be the one being traced by
picking the names out of a hat
Dismiss them to wonder the room and/or hallways to find a close
spot to trace
B. Development
Cut out the plant illustrations cards with descriptions of the healing
properties of each plant before hand
Hand out the large pieces of paper, markers, tape, pictures of the
plants and yarn.
Let the students play and understand the materials
Today you are going to learn which plants are used for medicine
Let them try to work out the activity by themselves at first
After 10 minutes without instruction, step in if students are off task
Then describe they are matching the pictures to the drawing of the
child on the paper to where the plant would heal
They would use the yarn to connect the body part and plant
While they are working on places all the plants in the correct places,
ask questions
1. Where do you think that plant goes there?
2. What do you think that plant does to help heal the human
body?
3. Have you seen any of these plants before?
4. Do you think doctors use these plants on their patients?
a. Why or why not?
5. What plants are effective in healing which body parts?
Close with some background knowledge
6. Ask questions:
a. Do you know who used native plants for
medicinal/medical purposes?
7. Native Americans and pioneers traditionally used native plants
for medicinal purposes.
8. Since physicians and pharmacists were not available, people
learned through the scientific method, trial and error, which
means they had to test the plants and figure out which ones
helps and which ones did not
a. Does anyone have a family member or friend that is a
physician or pharmacists?
b. Do you know what they do while they are working?
C. Closure
Have the students spilt into pairs

 Tell each student they will be looking up a flower or plant with

healing qualities
1. They will have to present what they found at the end of the day
Have them find the following things:
2. Who founded it
3. Where it comes from
4. The healing products
5. Where it is used on the body
6. If it is the best way to treat an injury/illness
a. Explain why or why not
Can be made on a poster board
1. Limited instruction on creativity
Presentations will be brief at the end of class
Students will be assessed on the presentation
1. Students will write what they learned from the other groups in
their Science Journals
D. Accommodations/Differentiation
Wheel-chair student
1. Make sure the student is the tracer
a. Long pencil/marker on stick
2. If student is comfortable enough, they can lay down with help
from peer and/or teacher
Vision impaired
3. Have them be traced
4. Braille on cards
Peer Buddies
5. Help write or read
E. Assessment/Evaluation Plan
1. Formative
i. Science Journal
1. Who founded it
2. Where it comes from
3. The healing products
4. Where it is used on the body
5. If it is the best way to treat an injury/illness
a. Explain why or why not
2. Summative
a. Unit test at the end
b. Presentation
V.

Reflective Response

A. Report of Students Performance in Terms of Stated Objectives

Reflection on the students performance after lesson is taught
Remediation for failing students to meet acceptable level
B. Personal Reflection
Questions written before lesson
Answer to pre-made questions below
1. Were the students able to match the plant to the place on the
body that the plant will help heal?
2. Were the students able to identify which plant is used for which
body part?
3. Were the students able to work in groups to finish their project?
4. Were the students able to present a project with the knowledge
that they learned and researched?
VI.

Resources
A. Book
Bates, Ramona. (1994). Flowers & Seeds. North Carolina: CarsonDellosa Publishing Company, Inc.
B. Video:
Garden Time TV. (2007, September 07). Medicinal Plants [Web
Video]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Pmyn6trPpjo
C. Project website for ideas
http://www.nybg.org/wildmedicine/plants.html