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Title: Well I'll Bee!
Objective or Purpose: To learn about how insects, plants and animals form a symbiotic relationship.
Materials: Student journal, chart paper and pencils.
Activities: Pre-class work, A cartoon of pollination.
Lesson Design Teacher Procedure Student Activities
Anticipatory Set
Journal writing and review comments, questions, and discussions.
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Journal activity - Write down as many plants that you can think of. Visualize how the pollen gets to the female organ of the plant, and describe how important this is?
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Listen, and start your journal activity immediately. This activity should be answered completely, given a lot of thought, and must be brought to a conclusion in 6 minutes.
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Input and Modeling
Introduce the "stuff needed for success", and show what they need to know.
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Keywords: Pollination, symbiosis, and nectar, pollen, bee, hummingbirds, nectar eating bats.
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Listen, see, and take notes.
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Guided Practice
Show-em how it's done.
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Have students take a blank piece of paper, and make a cartoon story board with three scenes. Scene one is a bee or hummingbird flying around. Scene two is this creature seeing a color flower. Scene three is the creature drinking the flower's nectar, and transporting the pollen grains to the female parts of the flower.
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Hear, see, do - The students are to start their word find activity and complete it before the end of the period.
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Closure
Comparisons and wrap-ups
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In order to keep track of all of the world's creatures, we have to develop a system of naming, or nomenclature.
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Listen to the summary of the day's class, and note what homework is posted for the next class period.
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Independent Practice: Finish the worksheet for homework
Extension to the lesson: Who was Charles Darwin? Where are the Galapagos Islands? What is natural selection? Have you ever heard the term, the law of the jungle?
Duration of the lesson: Approximately 49 minutes
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