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Plant life cycle: Growing Lima Beans

My collection of resources for guiding a lesson plan where the students will grow Lima beans and observe their life cycle and factors that affect their growth. Also resources to compare life cycle of plants to that of other animals like butterflies.

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Plants and animals impact on the environment

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Forum Posts
Recent Posts by Rebecca

Thu, Nov 15, 2018 5:46 PM in Student Teaching

Hi Olivia! I'm startig my student teaching next semester but I tend to have a similar problem in my service learning classroom. I'm in a second grade classroom- what grade are you in? One thing that has helped a bit is the teacher making it clear to the students that they should treat me with the same respect as they would her. I don't have much other advice but would like to see w...

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Thu, Nov 15, 2018 5:41 PM in Keeping students attention during a science lesson?

Hello fellow science lovers! I am a pre-service teacher about to finish up my classes and begin my student teaching (yay!). Recently I had to do a lesson with a group of second graders in my service learning classroom and I did a "Life Cycle of a Plant" activity where we are growing lima beans in plastic bags with wet paper towel and comparing if the rate of growth is faster wh...

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Sun, Nov 26, 2017 11:39 PM in Teaching Biology to young students

Hello! I am an education student and I will be starting my student teaching in the next year. I plan to teach elementary students and I am very interested in teaching early reading, however, I also LOVE science, particularly Biology. I have considered teaching secondary school to teach science but I've always been more drawn to younger students. I plan on putting lots of science books and posters ...

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Reviews
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Classifying Animals Collection

Sun, Nov 25, 2018 8:36 PM
Great resource

After exploring this collection I feel that it is a great resource to be used if one planned on teaching a unit about animals and their ecosystems. many of the resources include lesson plans (sometimes multiple lesson plans) and it the science object would be helpful in creating a conceptual flow for your unit plan. I also like that many of the resources included outside resources like books or tools that you could use in your classroom to help guide instruction and lessons as well.

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