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Many students in my class are English Language Learners. As part of my plant unit, I taught a lesson on how people use plants. I put a variety of clip art pictures depicting things that come from plants on a Microsoft Word document and projected them on a Promethean Board. Under each picture I wrote the word because this helps students, especially English Language Learners, tie something they understand (a picture of a strawberry) to its name. I used these pictures to assess their background knowledge on the subject. Many students did not believe that most of the items came from plants. This gave us a great starting point for a discussion on the material.