The document discusses how humans and animals require and share the same resources to live, focusing on air, water, food, and shelter. It provides examples of how humans use plants for various purposes, from furniture and paper to perfume ingredients. Students visited a rattan village to learn more. They also explored how plants are used around their school and discussed the importance of sharing resources and protecting plants so they are available for all living things.

1. Sharing the
Planet
Who Needs
Plants?
1TS 2012-13

2. Learner Profile and IB Attitudes
* Appreciation:
Being grateful
* Knowledgeable:
Researching
* Commitment: Finish what
you start and don’t give up

3. Central Idea
.
Thursday 28.3.13
Humans and animals require the same resources.
Our reworded Central Idea:
People and animals need the same things to use so they can live.
From our last unit we know living things need the following things to grow and be healthy:
 Air
 Exercise
 Water
 Food
 Sleep
 Care
 Shelter
We have decided the ones we need to share with animals are
 Air
 Water
 Food
 Shelter

4. Provocation:
Think (self), Pair (partner), Share( small group and /or whole group and find best common
answers for whole class)
“resources students share with others”
* What resources do we have in school which we all share?
Canteen, playground, classrooms, toys, toilets, paper, soccer
fields
* Which resources at school do you argue about?
Balls, chairs/seats, skipping rope, water fountain
* Have you ever had the experience when someone has used
up the last of a resource?
Glue, marker, blocks/lego- hiding or someone used the last
piece, brother finishing all my dinner, all the equipment has
been borrowed, the paper, toilet
paper, ingredients, medicine, paper towel, spoons – NB most
due to not sharing!

5. Provocation:
The Lorax- Dr Suess
Why was it „Glorious‟ at the beginning?
 Clean sky
 Bright colours
 Trees
 Bears
 Fruit
 Blue ponds
 Fish
 Green grass
 Looks happy

6. Provocation:
The Lorax- Dr Suess
HEADLINES
created by the students
 See the colourful trees
 Lorax gets cross
 The trees get cut
 Buy a THNEED
 Lorax cares for trees
 Once-lers cut down everything
 Once-lers don‟t share
 No more truffula fruit
 All is gone.
 No trees, No threeds, Once-lers leave
 Once-ler lerarns trees are important
 Boy cares about plants.

7. Teacher Question
How do humans use plants?
Think: independently come up with a list. Share: make a class
list of ideas (5.4.13)
Shelter Our clipboards Wood work Chop sticks
toilet paper Paper Perfume Air soap Table
Fruit Placemat or plate Pencil Spoons and forks (cutlery)
Spears Play with (stick) Seats Bow and arrow shelves
Water carrier Water/liquid Baskets Shampoo
tea Decoration Cloth String Vegetables
Bats Bed Door Relaxing- oil burner Conical hat

8. How do humans use plants? (8.4.13)
Think: in groups decide how to sort out the class list. Share: groups to
give ideas to whole class. Each group then to create a poster.
Decide: as a class the headings or categories of how we/humans
use plants and add examples.
Groups sorting:
Class decision:

9. A trip to a Rattan Village
 Please click here to see our experiences.

10. Using plants to make perfume.
We looked at, smelt
, tasted and used
orange, mint, ginger and
flowers. We learnt how
these can be used to
make perfume, soap and
sprays.
Smelling the fresh scents
and recording the plants
pictorially and matching
them to the correct label

11. Smelling scents and working out
which plant product it matches
Resin -
dried sap.
The tools and equipment
of a scientist

12. Thanks to Ms Clemence Barbier
for sharing her knowledge and
time with us. We know have
learnt a lot of new ways we
need different plants.

13. How have plants been used
around our school?
The students were sent in pairs to take a photo of a way we use plants at our school. These
were then printed and pasted into their UoI books where they wrote a sentence to
accompany the picture. They then typed these statements onto this presentation.
It is to protect bicycles from the
rain. It is made from the stem of the
bamboo. Akash
We use the picnic table for eating
and drink on and doing work. The
wood comes from a tree. Adrian
It is used for sitting on, eating on
and art projects- Savannah
We use it for sitting on and resting on. If
you have no hat you sit on the bench and
watch the others play. It is made from a
tree trunk. Mai An

14. We use the lost and found to find
our things that got lost. The trunk is
used to make this. August
People use tissue paper to dry their
hands after they go to the toilet.
James
The bridge is made out of tree. We
use the bridge to go to another
building quickly. Yi Ming When we get dirty we use tissue for
cleaning. It is made from the trunk.
Ga In

15. We need grass to play on
and for decoration. We need
to look after it more. Hung
We used wood to make a door to
open. If you don‟t have a door you
would just have a hole. Kiran
We use the tires to climb up to the
separate floor. It is made of rubber
and its from the rubber tree. Omar
We eat on it and we can sit to rest.
We can put our things on it. Phuc

16. We put blocks in this and get them
out easily. We make it from a tree
trunk- Defne
We use them for going upstairs.
They are made from branch and
trunks of trees. Meina
We use the kitchen to cook and
playing. It made from wood.
Taishi

17. How do we need to share resources?
We learnt about the
Saguaro Cactus. It
grows to 15.24m and
lives for 200 years. Many
animals and people
depend on this cactus.
We need the
fruit to eat, and
the ribs to make
tools
I need to make a
nest in the
branches to keep
my babies safe
We need to collect
the seeds to eat and
use the dead cactus
to have shelter and
protection

18. We found out so much we
created posters about the uses of
some plants.
Take a look at them here

19. Can we do anything to help keep plants
around for all living things to use?
* I will use both sides of the
paper- Yi Ming
* I will plant seeds- Omar
and Hung
* I will remember to water plants-
Anh Phuc
• I will say to the people who
cut trees down to stop or we
and animals will die. We
should use what is already
chopped- August
* If I become a builder I will chop a little bit of
trees, only the ones I really need to. Kiran
* I will think about the animals that
need it too before taking it. Savannah