Final Learning Targets

First Grade Science Unit: Plants

Brief Description of Unit: Students will build upon their prior knowledge of plants. They will learn parts of a plant, functions of the parts, if plants are living vs. nonliving, plant needs, life cycle, and grow a plant.

Learning Targets:

Learning Target 1: Students will identify the parts of a plant.
Mastery Learning Target
Verbs: label, match, choose, name and select (Bloom)

Learning Target 2: Students will describe the function of each plant part.
Mastery Learning Target
Verbs: explain, identify, describe, tell, and write (Bloom)

Learning Target 3: Students will determine what characteristics make plants living things.
Mastery Learning Target
Verbs: compare, contrast, explain, justify, and summarize (Bloom) describe, justify (Krathwohl)

Learning Target 4: Students will find parallels between their needs as humans and the needs of other forms of life.
Developmental Learning Target
Verbs: diagram, design, compare, contrast (Bloom) generalize, differentiate, discriminate, explain (Krathwohl)

Learning Target 5: Students will describe what will happen if a living plant is deprived of its needs.
Mastery Learning Target
Verbs: explain, predict, summarize, demonstrate, show (Bloom) describe, explain (Krathwohl)

Learning Target 6: Students will display a plant’s life cycle.
Mastery Learning Target
Verbs: label, diagram, design, create, construct (Bloom)

Learning Target 7: Students will successfully grow a plant providing its common needs.
Developmental Learning Target
Verbs: produce, show, perform, display (Bloom) grow