Home Plan - [EIF-L5-U5-LC1-1 Sunflowers – Nature’s Sun Seekers]

The document provides a comprehensive guide on teaching about sunflowers, encompassing their appearance, parts, characteristics, and uses. It includes interactive activities like reading passages, identifying plant parts, and discussing concepts like sunflower movement towards the sun for energy. The second part emphasizes the beauty and utility of sunflowers, with activities ranging from true or false questions to reflecting on key learnings and engaging in further discussions. The content highlights the significance of sunflowers for humans, animals, and insects, also delving into their symbolic meanings and offering extension activities for a deeper understanding of the subject.

Contents

• Pages 1—26: Sunflower teaching activities
• Pages 27—41: Teaching about sunflowers

This section of the document provides tips and activities for teaching about sunflowers. The goals include introducing students to the appearance of sunflowers, parts of the plant, their characteristics like moving towards the sun, and their usage. The activities involve looking at pictures, reading passages about sunflowers, identifying plant parts, answering questions, and understanding concepts like how sunflowers turn towards the sun for energy. Additionally, it mentions that sunflowers are not only beautiful but also beneficial, with their seeds being edible and used to produce oil for cooking. The document emphasizes interactive learning through questions, short passages, flashcards, and picture cues.

This section of the document provides tips and activities for teaching about sunflowers. It includes information on how sunflowers are useful, a true or false activity, questions about other edible seeds, the significance of sunflowers, reflecting on what was learned, providing feedback, and ending the lesson. Students are encouraged to talk about sunflowers, engage in various activities related to them, and ask questions about the topic. The section emphasizes the beauty and usefulness of sunflowers, discussing their appearance, movement, and benefits to humans, animals, and insects. It also touches on the symbolic meanings of sunflowers and includes extension activities for further exploration of the topic.