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Lesson title: Celery Stem Dissection

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Celery has internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, and reproduction.

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Celery has internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, and reproduction.

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Life Science:

Central Focus: Systems and Systems Models

A system can be described in terms of its components and their interactions.

Standard(s):

4-LS1-1: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

LS1.A: Structure and Function
Plants and animals have both internal and external structures that serve various functions in growth, survival, behavior, and reproduction.

Content Objective: The students will be able to understand and construct an argument with evidence, data and/or a model.

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Culturally relevant teaching.
Culturally responsive teaching.
Understand who the students are?
Understand what the students want and need?

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How Science Teachers Can Better Support Their Culturally and Ethnically Diverse Students

Culturally relevant teaching is important in all disciplines, but for science in particular, K-12 teachers typically have not had teacher education or learned teaching approaches that center on...

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Three Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies for the Science Classroom

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How Science Teachers Can Better Support Their Culturally and Ethnically Diverse Students Culturally relevant teaching is important in all disciplines, but for science in particular, K-12 teachers typically have not had teacher education or learned teaching approaches that center on...

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Linguistically Diverse teaching life science

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Linguistically Diverse teaching life science

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One way to be linguistically diverse is by listening to nondominant culture students; therefore, they do not feel excluded. By being linguistically diverse, I let my students know that all are "brilliant." It is essential to have students engage and share their ideas, and I make those ideas into questions central to classroom activity.

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Culture and Equity in Science Classrooms

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This installment of Current Insights features recent examples of scholarship examining the intersections between culture and equity in science education.

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Support culturally divers students through life science

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Support culturally divers students through life science

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Students need to see themselves as scientists and bring funds of knowledge into the science curriculum. We can talk about different species of plants and animals in the student's native countries to create culturally responsive.

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Ten Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies for the Science Classroom (Opinion)

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Four teachers share how they implement culturally responsive instruction in their science classrooms.

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Working in groups, students will be able to come up with solutions based on evidence, exit tickets and journal responses.

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Elaborate: Construct an argument with evidence, data and model

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Elaborate: Construct an argument with evidence, data and model

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3. How do the structures you described in your argument work together, to support survival, growth, and reproduction of celery?

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How are structures and functions related to a plant process?

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How are structures and functions related to a plant process?

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Engaging Students by Cultivating Their Curiosity

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Engaging Students by Cultivating Their Curiosity

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Cultivating students' curiosity is essential because it encourages them to "stay on task", be interested in what they are learning, and feel optimistic about their learning." Students are portrayed to be inherently curious. By encouraging them to continue asking questions, they effectively learn and understand the concept being taught, such as life science.

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What process can teachers use to engage students' curiosity?

Many of us use a problem-solving model to help effectively and efficiently answer questions, make decisions, and solve problems. In engineering, they use the Engineering Design Process to solve problems; in the medical field, they use the OODA Loop method that originated in the military for combat operations to make decisions; and as teachers, we use instructional design models to design effective lessons. Inquiry is essentially another form of the problem-solving process.

To help guide your students through this inquiry process, we have developed the ANSWERS model. This process will help students think critically as they generate questions and search for answers. The model is flexible and can be used for quick inquiries that are part of a short lesson and also more complex and longer inquiry projects.

While it's important to complete the steps in the process, it's also important to recognize that the inquiry process is rarely linear. Students will find themselves weaving back and forth and between steps. For example, after they pose their question and start noting the possibilities, students may find themselves asking new questions, which leads them to consider new possibilities. It is important that they consider the end product, as well as their audience, as they plan and design how to share their findings. They will also need to review, reflect, and revise throughout the entire process. You may use and share this Searching for Answers: Inquiry Process poster to help guide students through these steps.

In this series of articles, we will dig more deeply into each step of the ANSWERS model and offer digital strategies, tools, and templates that you can use as you teach your students to learn via the inquiry process.

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Engage Students by Cultivating Their Curiosity - AVID Open Access

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Many of us use a problem-solving model to help effectively and efficiently answer questions, make decisions, and solve problems. In engineering, they use the Engineering Design Process to solve problems; in the medical field, they use the OODA Loop method that originated in the military for combat operations to make decisions; and as teachers, we use instructional design models to design effective lessons.

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Explore what happens to the color and shape of the celery during the video?

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Explore what happens to the color and shape of the celery during the video?

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Explore how plants move water around inside them.
What do I need to find out?
What do I know already?
What happens to the color and shape of the celery during the video?

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Explaining why plants and animals have internal and external structures that support survival, growth, and reproduction. 

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Explaining why plants and animals have internal and external structures that support survival, growth, and reproduction. 

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Partner talk
How does a plant move water from the ground up into the rest of the leaves?
What did you notice happening here?
What did you think was going to happen when you dissect the colored celery?
Any thoughts?

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In this activity, students see capillary action . . . in action! Watch coloured water flow up a celery stalk, showing just how water moves from the roots of plants to their leaves. All plants need water to survive. Plants use water to carry nutrients to their roots, stems, leaves and flowers and to…

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Capillary Action