Question

A fourth-grade teacher wants to ensure students understand the life cycle process of plants. The teacher decides to incorporate the science-as-inquiry standard from the National Education Science Standards. How can the teacher achieve the specified learning outcome?

Answer 1

Answer:

There are several options that the teacher can use to incorporate the concept into students' understanding.

Explanation:

1. The students can draw all the plants that they know.

2. Children can be asked to bring the flowers to school so that they can identify the plants themselves.

3. The children can plat the flowers in makeshift pots and then take the best plants and transplant them in the garden or elsewhere.

4. The children can take occasional trips and observe and record any changes to the plants.

4. The teacher can ask the students to draw the flowers and emphasize on the productive parts like the stamens, leaves, pistils, stems.