Science was not taught at my school site while I was there, so I searched for a simple lesson and challenged myself to "tweak" it to my liking. All in all, I wanted the lesson to be themed and applicable to the fact that it's Spring Time in North Carolina, so I immediately knew I wanted to study flowers, in a new way. Surprisingly, there weren't many lessons on flowers that included activities besides planting flowers and watching them grow.My lesson asks the students to take a flower that had been planted and fully "grown", from our school community and dissect that flower to create a visual model of the different structures of a flower andtheir functions. The standard I chose says that the students should be able to remember function of structure as it relates to survival of plants in their environments. I felt that I great way to get the students to remember that information would be for them create a model of a flower that interest them and that they would be able to use in the world outside of school. We collected flowers with our partners, dissected the flowers, and created a model foldable to label and explain the respective functions. This allows the student to get actively engaged with the world around them, with something as simple as a flower. My students need to understand that flowers are not decorations that make the world prettier. I want them to understand that flowers are living beings (like us, humans) that need the sun, food, water and other plants to survive. This lesson was meant to be fun, engaging and meaningful, all in one. I wanted the students to feel like Scientist, in the respect that they will be using many tools to create their models and I wanted them to understand the concept of accountability when it comes to their own learning, so that is why I decided to make this lesson an independent work project. A student love creating foldables as opposed to taking notes, on a subject and using an actual flower visually looks cooler. I wish I had an opportunity to carry out this lesson with the students I worked with during IMB but I noticed that Science is just not a priority at that school and with all the stress about reading and math, I can understand. I may not agree, but I understand. Creating this lesson was hard for me to do because I had to gather so many different resources to keep it going. Each resource had to corroborate the last source and so on. I had about 20 tabs open on my computer. I wish that creating this lesson didnt take as long as it did as well but I can see, so much time needs to be allowed to create lesson plans- even Indirect lesson plans. I wanted to make sure I accommodated to students needs whether it be ELL, physical disabilities, or behavioral but I still felt it was best for the students to work alone with minimal help. The 5E lesson plan is my least favorite because re-reading it makes me feel like I forgot a point in the lesson because I am so focused on the activities and neglecting the actual learning that is supposed to take place. Also, thinking of ways to keep the students safe can be tricky but I can see it being helpful because in essences, its anticipating for mishaps in a lesson and allowing the teacher to best prepare for them. What went well with this lesson is that it is a super fun, engaging lesson. I feel that learning about science should be nothing but fun and engaging. I dont think that if I had the student watch the BrainPop video and take notes on what they saw would be so beneficial to them actually learning about the plants. Even the fact that I wanted to have a class discussion about the video and plants is better than sitting and taking notes with no experience. I think BrainPop videos make for great engagement portions of science lesson because they are quick and concise and long enough to keep the students attention and allow them to retain new information.

If I could teach this lesson I would have had a choice of flowers for them to pick because, my assigned school wasnt in a safe area and from what I could see, and there were little plants to choose from. I also wouldve given guidelines to the plants, especially about the size. I also have a hard time with time management so Im not sure if 30 minutes for this activity is enough time. Im also not confident as to how long the actual lesson should be. Looking back at my plan, I dont see much learning; I see a huge experiment with no form of checking for understanding. All in all, I enjoyed it and I wish I couldve done something like this when it came to learning about flowers and their structures, instead of being given a diagram to color in and fill in the missing blanks.