AnneLancaster

Title of Unit or Project: Amazing Plants

Grade Level and/or Subject Area: grades 9-12 EC Summary of Project Students will grow plants from seeds to experience the life cycle of a seed and plant. Students will beable to state the elements that seeds/plants need to grow. Students will name products that we get from plants and how they effect our lives. Students will be able to state if we can survive without plants and why.

Curriculum Framing Questions Essential Question Can we survive?

Unit Questions Why are plants here? How do plants help us? Can we live without plants?

Content Questions what is the life cycle of a seed/plant? What do plants need to grow? What do plants produce? How do plants help us? Visual Ranking
 * **List your idea for using Visual Ranking in your unit.**
 * I made a list of 10 plants and asked the students to rank them by importance to our lives and tell why.
 * **List concerns you have using Visual Ranking in your unit.**
 * **I need to remember to ask the students why they ranked the plants in the order they did**

Seeing Reason 
 * **List your idea for using Seeing Reason in your unit.**
 * What happens if plants disappear?
 * **List concerns you have using Seeing Reason in your unit.**
 * The wording was difficult to try to show the cause and effects of what would happen if plants disappeared.
 * After reviewing the map I was able to make more revisions and show more correlation.
 * The student that reviewed my map gave me some good suggestions.

Showing Evidence 
 * **List your idea for using Showing Evidence in your unit.**
 * Students will be able to show that we cannot survive with out plants.
 * Showing evidence for my unit was fairly easy.
 * **List concerns you have using Showing Evidence in your unit.**
 * **My showing evidence piece was too biased to be refuted.**

The project idea-real world connections, authenicity Amazing Plants Unit Plan