Early Childhood Technology Literacy Grant Lesson Plans Title of Lesson: "Planting Bush Beans" Grade: Kindergarten Unit(s): Living Things Developed by: Amy Christopher Edited by: Bonny Chambers Concepts and Outcomes: Students will Sequence the process of planting and caring for bean seeds. use language to communicate. identify the characteristics of living things. Materials: Digital Camera or Camera and Scanner Computer TV or projection device Kid Pix Bush bean seeds Soil Pots or planting cups Opening Set: **You will need to begin taking the pictures for this lesson with Learning Experience 3 in the Living Things guide and continue as the bean seeds grow. Take pictures of the students planting, watering and caring for their bean sprouts with a digital camera. Be sure to take a picture of the seed and each stage of development. Save the pictures with meaningful names on your student panel or disks. Discuss/review what students have already learned about living things--refer to KWL chart previously done in class. Tell students that they will be working as a class to create a book that will teach other kids about planting and caring for bean plants. Tell them that you will be taking pictures of their groups planting and caring for their beans and then they will add words to describe what they are doing. Lesson Design: After Learning Experience 3, connect computer to the TV and model opening a picture. Open Kid Pix Go to the File menu and highlight Open Find the picture you took. (You may need to navigate to find a disk) Highlight the picture name and click Open You will see a message that tells you the picture was not created in Kid Pix and needs to be saved with a different name. Click OK. Talk about what you see in the picture. Remind students that you need to add a sentence to the picture so you can put it in a book to teach other kids about planting beans. Agree on a good sentence for the picture and type it using the Type Text tool. (In the Goodies menu or on the side tool bar) Save the picture. Every few days, take more pictures. While other students are doing observational drawings of their beans, ask one group at a time to come to the computer and work with a Title One assistant at the computer to open a picture of their bean and type a sentence describing it. Save the picture. If you plan on using the pictures in a slide show, have the students record their descriptions with their pictures and save. Synthesis and Conclusion: Print the pictures of the different stages of the planting, watering, and caring for processes of the bean plants. Show each picture to the class and work together to sequence them for your book. OR, open Slide Show and put each of the pictures into a "truck". Display on TV and move the trucks to sequence the Slide Show. Evaluation and Assessment: Teacher will examine the Kid Pix picture and listen to student sentence for ability to communicate. Teacher will observe students to see if they are able to sequence the pictures for the book or Slide Show. Home/School Connection: Student will take home a Science Home page describing what steps students took to plant beans at school along with some bush beans from the science kit. Students will plant some beans at home with their parents and observe the results. Students can draw a picture of what the plant looks like after it grows and share it with the class. Students will take turns taking the class book home to read with their families. Extensions: Ask students to label the pictures with the parts of the plants. Save the slide show out of order and lock it. Have groups of students work together to sequence the slide show.