Sharing the Planet

Who Needs Plants?1TS 2012-13

Learner Profile and IB Attitudes

* Appreciation:Being grateful

* Knowledgeable:Researching

* Commitment: Finish what you start and don’t give up

Central Idea.

Thursday 28.3.13

Humans and animals require the same resources.

Our reworded Central Idea:

People and animals need the same things to use so they can live.

From our last unit we know living things need the following things to grow and be healthy: Air Exercise Water Food Sleep Care Shelter

We have decided the ones we need to share with animals are Air Water Food Shelter

Provocation: Think (self), Pair (partner), Share( small group and /or whole group and

find best common answers for whole class)

“resources students share with others”* What resources do we have in school which we all share?Canteen, playground, classrooms, toys, toilets, paper, soccer fields * Which resources at school do you argue about? Balls, chairs/seats, skipping rope, water fountain* Have you ever had the experience when someone has used up the last of a resource? Glue, marker, blocks/lego- hiding or someone used the last piece, brother finishing all my dinner, all the equipment has been borrowed, the paper, toilet paper, ingredients, medicine, paper towel, spoons – NB most due to not sharing!

Provocation: The Lorax- Dr Suess

Why was it ‘Glorious’ at the beginning?

Clean sky Bright colours

Trees Bears Fruit

Blue ponds Fish

Green grass Looks happy

Provocation: The Lorax- Dr Suess

HEADLINES created by the students

See the colourful trees Lorax gets cross The trees get cut Buy a THNEED

Lorax cares for trees Once-lers cut down everything

Once-lers don’t share No more truffula fruit

All is gone. No trees, No threeds, Once-lers leave Once-ler lerarns trees are important

Boy cares about plants.

Teacher QuestionHow do humans use plants?

Think: independently come up with a list. Share: make a class list of ideas (5.4.13)

Shelter Our clipboards Wood work Chop sticks

toilet paper Paper Perfume Air soap

Table

  Fruit Placemat or plate Pencil Spoons and forks

(cutlery)

Spears Play with (stick) Seats Bow and arrow

shelves

Water carrier Water/liquid Baskets

Shampoo tea Decoration Cloth

String Vegetables Bats Bed Door

Relaxing- oil burner Conical hat

How do humans use plants? (8.4.13)Think: in groups decide how to sort out the class list. Share: groups to give ideas to whole class. Each group then to create a poster. Decide: as a class the headings or categories of how we/humans use plants and add examples.Groups sorting:

Class decision:

A trip to a Rattan Village

Please click here to see our experiences.

Using plants to make perfume.

We looked at, smelt , tasted and used orange, mint, ginger and flowers. We learnt how these can be used to make perfume, soap and sprays.

Smelling the fresh scents and recording the plants pictorially and matching them to the correct label

Smelling scents and working out which plant product it matches

Resin - dried sap.

The tools and equipment of a scientist

Thanks to Ms Clemence Barbier for sharing her knowledge and time with us. We know have learnt a lot of new ways we need different plants.

How have plants been used around our school? The students were sent in pairs to take a photo of a way we use plants at our school. These were then printed and pasted into their UoI books where they wrote a sentence to accompany the picture. They then typed these statements onto this presentation.

It is to protect bicycles from the rain. It is made from the stem of the bamboo. Akash

We use the picnic table for eating and drink on and doing work. The wood comes from a tree. AdrianIt is used for sitting on, eating on and art projects- Savannah

We use it for sitting on and resting on. If you have no hat you sit on the bench and watch the others play. It is made from a tree trunk. Mai An

We use the lost and found to find our things that got lost. The trunk is used to make this. August

People use tissue paper to dry their hands after they go to the toilet. James

The bridge is made out of tree. We use the bridge to go to another building quickly. Yi Ming When we get dirty we use tissue

for cleaning. It is made from the trunk. Ga In

We need grass to play on and for decoration. We need to look after it more. Hung

We used wood to make a door to open. If you don’t have a door you would just have a hole. Kiran

We use the tires to climb up to the separate floor. It is made of rubber and its from the rubber tree. Omar

We eat on it and we can sit to rest. We can put our things on it. Phuc

We put blocks in this and get them out easily. We make it from a tree trunk- Defne

We use them for going upstairs. They are made from branch and trunks of trees. Meina

We use the kitchen to cook and playing. It made from wood. Taishi

How do we need to share resources?

 

 

We learnt about the Saguaro Cactus. It grows to 15.24m and lives for 200 years. Many animals and people depend on this cactus.

We need the fruit to eat, and the ribs to make tools

I need to make a nest in the branches to keep my babies safe

 

We need to collect the seeds to eat and use the dead cactus to have shelter and protection

We found out so much we created posters about the

uses of some plants.

Take a look at them here

Can we do anything to help keep plants around for all living things to use?

* I will use both sides of the paper- Yi Ming

* I will plant seeds- Omar and Hung

* I will remember to water plants- Anh Phuc

* I will not chop down trees so

the animals can live there.

Akash

* Make sure we look

after the trees to save

the planet- James

• I will say to the people who cut trees down to stop or we and animals will die. We should use what is already chopped- August

* I am going to plant more plants. Mai An

* I will reuse more things.

Adrian

* If I become a builder a little of trees, only the one I really need to. Kiran

* I will think about the animals that need it too before taking it. Savannah