This week's At-Home Project: Non-Conventional Plant Model

This week our Kindergarten team is challenging each student to become an engineer and create a plant model using non-plant materials.  You can use legos, cereal, paper, cloth, anything you have at home to create a model of a plant.  Students choose the type of plant they wish to make, the materials they wish to use, and they design and build the model themselves.  When finished you can help them complete the response sheet at the bottom of the directions to help them when they will share their project with the class on Thursday.  Happy Building everyone!!

Lego Flowers and Flowerpot

Chocoloate Chip Cookie Tree

Paper Petal Flower (from Book pages)

Create your own Plant Model from non-plant materials

This week I am challenging each of you to create your own plant model from non-plant materials.  You can make a model of grass, flowers, bushes, trees, or any combination that you like. 

You may use anything you have around your house that are not plants themselves.  You can paint a picture of flowers, build a tree with legos, make flowers out of tissue paper, anything you want.  BE CREATIVE!!

(It has to be YOUR original work: No buying a project or kit to put together!!)

You are going to bring in your plant model on Thursday to share with the class.

          *Part of the grade will be on your participation. (Did you make a model?)

*Part will be on your description. (Did you write about it below?)

*Part will be on your presentation. (Did you share it with the class?) 

This is intended to be fun, so don’t worry about perfection. 

Just make something cool, write about it, and then share it with the class.

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My plant model is _______________________________________.

The materials I used were ________________________________.

The plant parts in my model are   ___________________________

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By _________________