Looking Closely at Leaves Drawing Activity
Lesson Plans
Grades1, 2Science, Visual and Performing Arts
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What it is
- In this hands-on lesson, students will learn how to create scientific drawings and practice their drawing skills with leaves from plants in their area.
- Students will make their drawings accurate, big, and colorful and participate in a guessing game to match other students' drawings to the correct leaves.
Teaching tips
Positives
- Students will love learning about the connection between art and science.
- The lesson includes opportunities for students to go outside and connect with nature, learn about the plants and trees living in their area, and have a fun activity to work on that connects to science topics and art skills.
Prerequisites
- This lesson is written for Foodcorps educators, but all classroom teachers can easily teach this lesson.
- This resource is a first-grade lesson but includes options for older students.
Differentiation & Implementation
- Students can create nature journals to add to throughout the year, keeping detailed science records.
- To practice using field guides, students can use their drawings of leaves to identify the tree they came from.
- Students can practice descriptive writing by adding descriptive captions to their drawings.
From the scientist review
This resource provides students with basic scientific and arts techniques to explain in detail the natural environment and how they could protect it. We reviewed the resource and it has passed our science credibility process.
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