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Botanical Gardens Lesson plan
This lesson is also available in a three day plan.
by Lara Steele

This page contains, ready to go, all the background information you need to teach the Lifestyle Changes Lesson, including overheads, handouts, quizzes, and evaluation materials. You will need a computer, printer, pens, pencils, transparencies, and other 'normal' classroom supplies. Please feel free to use the provided materials, share them, reproduce them, but make sure TerraX.org receives credit.

Objectives

• The student will be able to state the main idea of a story.
• The student will be able to define a botanical garden.
• The student will be able to explain why botanical gardens are important.
• The student will be able to describe a plant in a scientific way.

Materials

• Information sheet on plant details. (one per student)
• Plants worksheet
• Story
• Chalk board and chalk or overhead and overhead markers

Outline

1. Read the material provided on Botanical Gardens to prepare yourself for this lesson.
2. Open class with an introduction, stating that you will be learning about botanical gardens.
3. Read the story to the class and ask the questions, allowing time for feedback and a small amount of discussion on the questions.
4. Brainstorm why botanical gardens exist.
5. Hand out the worksheet and example papers.
6. Have the students do the assignment as homework or take them outside as a group and have them do the workheet with in class time.
7. Discuss some of the differences that students found in the same plants.  Why did one student consider something important while another ignored that part of the plant?

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