Virtual Field Trip

    I created a virtual field trip for my students to learn about plants, what they need to grow, and the plant cycle. The virtual field trip is a helpful resource and activity to experience in our unit about plants in Science. The students watched a video called Virtual Greenhouse Tour: April 10, 2020. Over two days, the students learned about the greenhouse, different kinds of plants, different habitats the plants live in, and what they need to grow. Over the course of watching this video, students took brief notes on a KWL chart. This organized their thinking and questions to talk about when we continued the activity as a class. When we finished the virtual tour, we came together as a class to discuss our learnings and questions. As a class, we completed our graphic organizer. This graphic organizer asks the question, what does a plant need to grow? There are five arrows included on the map to model the five major things all plants need in order to grow, water, air, sunlight, space, and nutrients from the soil. My students were able to participate in creating a visual representation of their learning to reference when recalling information.

Link to Virtual Greenhouse Tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR5cArfDZiE

Link to Graphic Organizer:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10ph5pQQmTCJEL4ED1FRnA8bwQhBNUuD61RMgSqhyXkw/edit?usp=sharing

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