Megan+S.

Science Goal 1 1.01 - Observe and measure how the quantities of nutrients, light, and water in the environment affect plant growth. 1.02 - Observe and describe how environmental conditions determine how well plants surive and grow in a particular environment. 1.03 - Investigate and dexribe how plants pass through distinct stages in their life cycle including:
 * Learning Objective **
 * Growth
 * Survival
 * Reproduction

Communication and Collaboration Research and Information Fluency Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making Technology Operations and Concepts

Understand and Explain Applying Analyzing Creating
 * Cognitive Type/Skills: **

While conducting the plant science unit, have students create Claim statements with evidence from classroom experiments to record on a voice thread. Students also make predictions before performing an experiment to also post on the voice thread. For example, students may say I claim a seed has a seed coat. I claim this because we did an experiment where the seed was soaked overnight, then we opened up the seed. To open up the sead, we had to peel off the seed coat. For the predictions an example would be, I predict a plant needs sun, water, and soil to grow the best. This can be ongoing activity throughout the entire unit that can be shared with parents as you go.
 * Activity: **


 * Resources **
 * Voice Thread Account - Create an identity for each of your students under your account
 * Create Voice Thread Pages for students to record their claims, evidence, and predictions on. Describe what activity the student is completing on each page by recording yourself.
 * Computer and some sort of microphone for recording
 * 3rd Grade Plant Science Kit