Smartboard Lessons on Plants
You can enhance your teaching of a class about plants by using a Smartboard as this will make a visual impact from photos and any videos you can include. Using the Internet to find information and adding in quizzes and instructions on the Smartboard engages the class and encourages interaction.
-
Growing Plants
-
Provide the class with cuttings in a small pot to grow their own plant. On the Smartboard, show videos of how to care for the plant, watering, providing sunlight, controlling temperature and moving to a bigger pot once the plant gets to a certain size. Show photos of what the plant will look like when it is fully grown or how it flowers if it is a flowering plant. Ask the children to keep a journal of their plant growth.
How Plants Help the Planet
-
Describe how all living organisms need plants to survive. Show images of animals eating plants and animals eating those animals. Discuss what plants animals eat and what plants humans eat. Describe how plants help the planet, talk about photosynthesis. Use a quiz on the Smartboard to test learning at the end of the lesson.
-
Clothing
-
Silk in produced in huge quantities in China Show images of silk being woven into fabric and talk about silkworms, especially how they eat the leaves of the mulberry tree which contributes to the making of silk. Present videos of cotton being picked and talk about the numerous clothes that are made from cotton and the huge industry that has been built from it. Clothes can also be made from bamboo. Log onto the Internet using the Smartboard computer and talk through the benefits of bamboo. Discuss the use of hemp to make clothing. Ask the class to summarize this as an essay or use this as a project.
Salad
-
Bring some salad into the classroom. Suggest the class grows some of its own salad. Lettuces are easily grown in a window box and tomatoes in gro-bags. Let the children nurture these plants and grow food. Use the Smartboard to write up instructions on how to grow the two plants, show what vitamins they contain and explain how these vitamins are good for in the human body. Show people working in their gardens or growing their own food in their apartments on the Smartboard. Encourage students to grow their own food to help save money and the environment.
-
References
Resources
- Photo Credit Jupiterimages/Comstock/Getty Images China Photos/Getty Images News/Getty Images
