Lesson Plan

 Living Organisms All Around Us                                           

Luke Littau; Northern State University                     

The students will learn about organisms that exist in the world and learn about what there are made out of.  This learning will happen by group activities, a nature walk, a presentation, drawing of an animal and plant cell, drawing of an ecosystem and to fill out a Punnett square. 

•  6.L.1.1 Students are able to illustrate the difference between plant and animal cells.

• 6.L.1.2. Students are able to explain the importance and scientific use of a classification system.

Lesson Objectives:

• Students will be able to tell the difference between a plant and animal cell.
• Students will be able to identify the major components of a plant and animal cell.

• First Week, Quiz at the end of the week
• Second Week, A test over all the unit at the end of the week

• Internet: to find a 3-D model of a plant and animal cell to show the class.

• Paper
• Pencil
• Crayons

• There will be group activities. This will be from a drawing an ecosystem. (Interpersonal)
• An outdoor walk to show an example of an ecosystem. This walk will be around the neighborhood of the school and would last about an hour. (Naturalist)
• A group or individual presentation with the use of vocabulary words to learn about living organisms. The presentation will be on a part of an animal or plant cell. The presentation will tell about he part, what kind of cell it is found and what the function the part does. (Verbal-linguistic)
• Punnett squares will be used to demonstrate how traits are passed from parents to offspring. (Logical-mathematical)
• An plant and animal cell will be drawn along with an example of an ecosystem. (Visual-spatial)