Day 1

Green Bean Activity

Description and Identification of a green bean from others


Data Collection
mass
length
density
drawing/picture
protractor
trace
texture
width

Why?
Use equipment
Learn vocabulary
Metrics
First Impression
Peer teaching
Notebook

What is the value to teaching?

What is the most important content to teach about fruit?
Content
Photosynthesis and Cell Resp
Function
Where
Life Cycle
Adaption
Distribution
Type

Fruit Activity
Make a list of your favorite fruits.
Lychee nut
mangosteen
grapes

Tray of fruit included:
Bell pepper green segmented with stem, smooth and waxy green skin and hollow, bitter to sweet smell and comes in different varities, dicot, hollow

apple green, hard, small to medium size, with stem, smooth skin, sweet smell, round, dicot, fleshy

lemon wedged, bumpy yellow and waxy skin, luminesce 9

green bean, monocot, longand skinny with furry/waxy skin, pods



All from different families, distinct smell, different skins (some are edible), seeds are internal, differnt color spectrum chlorophylll, all are edible, different taste, excite different taste buds, vines, tree or shrub, organic and biodegradable, different hardness, economical uses

How are they different, disperse seeds? Characteristics of one of the fruits so that someone can go find this fruit from Central Market?

IPAD activity
What energy is transferred to the "eater"?
What major vitamins are provided?
How does this compare to recommended daily allowance?
What major organic molecules are provided?



http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwitteve/fruit.htm for more information.

Reflective Tool for Lesson

Topic Covered Req on FWISD Curriculum FW Big Ideas Reflection/Ideas