Listly by Makenzie Bouse
Description: This website provides a game that teaches about the life cycle of a plant.
Rationale: I chose this website because it provides a game that is more engaging to students rather than learning from an article.
Description: This website provides a place for the students to create a presentation to show how their plant grew.
Rationale: I chose Google slides because it allows students to be creative, but it is easier for younger students to use.
Description: This video provides information on the life cycle of a plant, the parts of a plant, and how to grow a plant.
Rationale: I chose this video because it provides a visual animation of the plant growing as it also helps them learn how to care for their plant to help it grow as they grow their own plant.
Description: This website provides information on the life cycle of the flowering plants through words and pictures. The article is easy to read.
Rationale: I chose this article because it was easy to read and it was a way for students who like to read rather than watch a video to learn information.
Description: This article describes the life cycle of plant through words and through diagrams.
Rationale: I chose this article because I like how the diagram provided a visual of the different steps of the life cycle. It was easy to see the steps as well as know the description of that step.
Description: This is a game that allows students to label the parts of the flower and know what each part does in the life cycle of a plant.
Rationale: I chose this because it is a way for students to go a little deeper into the life cycle of a plant as well as test their knowledge.
Description: This is a game that students have to help the plant grow by keeping the conditions consistent.
Rationale: I chose this game because the students are going to be growing their own plant, so this is a way to show how much water and sun the plants will need and what happens when the plant may have too much or too little.
Description: This is a read aloud of the book, The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. We are taken on the adventure of a seed as it grows.
Rationale: I chose this book because it is a fun way for the students be interested in the life cycle of a plant in a book that they would like to read and to show that they can learn lots through books.
Description: This is a time lapse video of real plants going through the life cycle.
Rationale: I chose this video because it gives the students of how their plants should look like and it makes what they have been learning come to life.
Description: This is a chart that describes each stage of the life cycle in a easy to follow way.
Rationale: I chose this chart because it was easy to read and it helps give the students a visual of the life cycle in order to summarize all that they learned.
Description: This is a site that can help the students make a video of their pictures and/or videos.
Rationale: I chose this site because it is easy to use and this gives the students a choice of how they would like to present their work.