Unit EQ: What skills are necessary for understanding Technology?
LEQ: How does a tree grow and how does that effect the way you work on wood?
Activating Strategies:
Have tree section out in classroom. Have students take a matching pretest as they enter on the parts of the tree. # the 5 parts.
Teaching Strategies and Distributed Guided Practice/Summarizing Prompts:
Review the parts of a tree and have students add the purpose of each part to their notes.
Outer Bark protects
Inner Bark transports nutirents
Cambium is the growth layer
Sapwood transports water
Heartwood supports tree
Cover Deciduous and Coniferous trees. Hard and Soft Wood.
Deciduous have leaves, grow slower, are denser, loose leaves in winter.
Coniferous have needles, cones, are evergreen and are soft woods that grow quickly.
Summarizing Strategies:
Students complete the labeling of the parts of tree section.
Have tree section out in classroom. Have students take a matching pretest as they enter on the parts of the tree. # the 5 parts.
Review the parts of a tree and have students add the purpose of each part to their notes.
Outer Bark protects
Cover Deciduous and Coniferous trees. Hard and Soft Wood.
Students complete the labeling of the parts of tree section.