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Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Playing with Flax & Tomato seeds
Sensory
Objectives: A. The will explore different parts of seeds. B. The will explore to see which type of seed weighs more.
Materials Needed:
Flax Seed
Tomato Seeds
Buckets
Scoops
Shovels
Rakes
Balance Scale
Describe the Activity: 1. Let the children explore the two types of seed.
Questions: What do you think would if we put water with Flax seed? Which seed do you thinks weighs more?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Technology Resources Video:
The Magic School Bus: Gets Planted
Computer Program:
Sammy’s Science House
1. The Missouri Botanical Garden
Field Trip List
314-577-9400 4344 Shaw St. Louis Mo., 63110
2. Shaw Nature Reserve 636-451-3512 Highway 100 Gray Summit, MO 63039
3. Powder Valley Nature 314-301-1500 11715 Cragwold Rd Saint Louis, MO 63122
THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT TREES. GROUP TIME ACTIVITY! Concept: There are many different trees. Objective: The children will explore different trees. Focusing Activity/Activities Explain what you will do to gain the group's attention, i.e.: finger play, movement activity, song, etc. Include the words and a description of any movements, etc. in your plan or attach to the back.
If you hear my voice clap your hands. If you hear my voice tap your head.
Group Experience Give a numerated step-by-step, detailed account of the activity/experience you will be leading with the group. Write in complete sentences and explain your plan clearly so that anyone picking up your plan could lead the group experience from what you have written.
1. Explain to the children how seeds from the trees are planted. Discuss how squirrels store acorns in the ground for winter; maple seeds have wings like a helicopter and whirl to the ground, pinecone seeds sprinkle out when tossed about.
2. Pass out paper and ask the children to draw a picture of the following story as you tell it: "One day Gray Squirrel found an acorn. He knew he could enjoy this delicious nut next winter when no other food around to eat. So he quickly buried it in the ground. (Ask each child to draw an acorn, maple seed, or a pinecone. Encourage them to listen and draw each thing that happens to the acorn, maple seed, or a pinecone.) Soon, little roots begin to appear; a stem starts to grow; more roots sprout; a tree trunk shoots up and gets wider and wider; branches appear and grow longer and longer; small acorns appear. They get larger and larger. Acorns fall from the big oak tree until the ground is covered with them. One day Cray Squirrel comes along again and what do you think he does?"
Transition Describe how you will bring closure to your group experience and transition the children to the next activity/activities. If you drawled an oak tree you may go pick an activity. If you drawled a maple tree you may go pick an activity. If you drawled a pine tree you may go pick an activity.
Materials Needed List all materials you will utilize. If using a song or finger play, include words and movements. If using a Book, include the title and author. Magnifying glass
Acorns, maple seeds, pine cones
Paper Crayons and markers
PLANTS THAT GROW FROM SEED. GROUP TIME ACTIVITY!
Concept: Tools and materials needed to grow plants. Objective: The children will explore tools and materials needed to grow plants.
Focusing Activity/Activities Explain what you will do to gain the group's attention, i.e.: finger play, movement activity, song, etc. Include the words and a description of any movements, etc. in your plan or attach to the back. There was a man lived in the moon, in the moon, in the moon. There was a man lived in the moon and his name was Aiken Drum. And he played upon a ladle, ladle, ladle. And he played upon a ladle and his name was Aiken Drum. And his hair was made of ________, _________, _________, And his hair was made of ______ and his name was Aiken Drum. And his eyes nose mouth ears (additional verses)
Group Experience Give a numerated step-by-step, detailed account of the activity/experience you will be leading with the group. Write in complete sentences and explain your plan clearly so that anyone picking up your plan could lead the group experience from what you have written. 1. Ask the children to pretend to be seeds so they can do "The Seeds and Flowers Dance." First, ask the children to make their bodies small and round like tiny seeds. Tap each child on the back and explain that you are planting them in the soil and pressing soil on top of them. Tell the children that you have the watering can and that you will pretend to water them (walk to each child and tickle the child's back lightly with your fingers as if you are watering them). Explain that the seeds need to be in the light for a long time before they will sprout (count to ten very slowly). Tell the children that after pretending to wait ten days the seeds are beginning to sprout and that when you count to three they should poke one finger out of the soil up toward the sky (I 2 3). Continue counting and tell the children that when you reach IO the tiny sprouts will have grown into tall plants (children slowly stand up). Walk around the room pretending to water the plants and tell them that as you count to 1 0 the flowers will begin to bloom (children raise their arms above their heads). Tell the children to look around the room and see all the beautiful flowers. There are marigolds, zinnias, pansies, roses and snapdragons. What a beautiful garden you've made. 2. Continue the role-play by telling the children that there is a gentle wind (children move their arms slowly, swaying in the wind). Explain that the wind is blowing harder (make the whoosh-whoosh sound of the wind with your voice). Tell the children to keep their roots (feet) planted in the soil and move their body from side to side. Explain that sometimes the wind carries seeds from the flowers to different parts of the garden and they will pretend that the wind will gently scatter these seeds to different spots in the garden (count to 3 and tell the children to gently blow (move) to another place and land gently on the ground). Tell the children that they just danced "The Seeds and Flowers Dance."
Transition Describe how you will bring closure to your group experience and transition the children to the next activity/activities. Plant a seed (Child’s Name) and you will see, you will see, you will see, you will see.
Plant a seed (Child’s Name) and you will see What a beautiful world it can be.
Materials Needed List all materials you will utilize. If using a song or finger play, include words and movements. If using a Book, include the title and author. Watering can.
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Writing Center List
1. Stamps in shapes of flowers.
2. Markers that have different flower smells.
3. Stamps in shapes of different vegetables.
4. Ink pads for the stamps.
5. Scratch and sniff flower stickers.
IT TAKES MANY THINGS TO GROW PLANTS. GROUP TIME ACTIVITY!
Concept: Seeds have many parts. Objective: The will explore different parts of seeds. Focusing Activity/Activities Explain what you will do to gain the group's attention, i.e.: finger play, movement activity, song, etc. Include the words and a description of any movements, etc. in your plan or attach to the back.
How does a plant begin? Ask students for thoughts and predictions. How does a seed turn into a plant? Tell them that scientists make predictions and study things to find answers to their questions. Today you are going to be a scientist.
Group Experience Give a numerated step-by-step, detailed account of the activity/experience you will be leading with the group. Write in complete sentences and explain your plan clearly so that anyone picking up your plan could lead the group experience from what you have written.
Give each student a seed, lima bean, that has been soaked in water so it is easier to open. Show them how to open the seeds carefully. (They fall apart, so you must be gentle!) Ask students to see if they can find out how a seed turns into a plant. After looking on their own, have them help friends find out why. Have them talk about it with their groups as they look. Make sure every child sees a baby plant.
Transition Describe how you will bring closure to your group experience and transition the children to the next activity/activities.
Come back to the carpet and have students discuss their conclusions. Show the illustration of the parts of a seed including the baby plant, seed coat, and plant food.
Materials Needed List all materials you will utilize. If using a song or finger play, include words and movements. If using a Book, include the title and author.
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lima beans; soak in water overnight
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magnifying glasses
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illustration of lima bean with baby plant inside
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divide children into cooperative groups, if desired
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Part 2 - ziploc bags, wet paper towels
THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT VEGETABLES. GROUP TIME ACTIVITY! Concept: There are many plants that grow from seed.
Objective: The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. Focusing Activity/Activities Explain what you will do to gain the group's attention, i.e.: finger play, movement activity, song, etc. Include the words and a description of any movements, etc. in your plan or attach to the back.
Where oh where is our friend _______? Where oh where is our friend _______? Where oh where is our friend _______? Way down yonder in the veggie patch. Pick yourself a (name of veggie) and come back and sit down. Pick yourself a (name of veggie) come back and sit down. Pick your-self a (name of veggie) come back and sit down. Way down yonder in the veggie patch.
Group Experience Give a numerated step-by-step, detailed account of the activity/experience you will be leading with the group. Write in complete sentences and explain your plan clearly so that anyone picking up your plan could lead the group experience from what you have written. 1. Place the vegetables on a low table in the middle of the circle for the children to examine. Involve the children in discussing the name of each vegetable and if they have eaten it. Encourage them to describeeach vegetable. Is it smooth? Rough? Bumpy? The children can categorize the vegetables according to size, color, shape, and texture. 2. Place the vegetable seed packets on the table with the vegetables. Encourage the children to match the seed packets with the vegetables. Ask the children to predict what the seeds in each packet look like. The children can feel the seeds through the packets as they think about the seed's size and shape. As the children make their predictions, help them record their ideas on chart paper or the chalkboard. 3. While the children watch, open each packet of seeds and encourage the children to talk about the seeds. Place each seed packet on a paper plate and tape the packet wrapper onto the plate by the seeds. Involve the children in examining the different seeds with a magnifying glass, comparing and contrastingthe seed's color, size, shape. Encourage the children to talk about the size of the seeds and the size of the vegetables produced.
Transition Describe how you will bring closure to your group experience and transition the children to the next activity/activities. Where oh where is our friend _______? Where oh where is our friend _______? Where oh where is our friend _______?
Way down yonder in the veggie patch. Pick yourself a (name of veggie) and pick an activity. Pick yourself a (name of veggie) and pick an activity. Pick your-self a (name of veggie) and pick an activity. Way down yonder in the veggie patch.
Materials Needed List all materials you will utilize. If using a song or finger play, include words and movements. If using a Book, include the title and author. Variety of vegetable seed packets (carrots, beans, radishes, pumpkins) Vegetables that correspond to the seed packets Chart paper and marker or chalkboard and chalk Paper plates Magnifying glass
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Exploring parts of a seed Subject: Science
Objectives: A. The children will explore different parts of seeds. B. The children will work in corporative groups.
Materials Needed: •
Lima beans; soak in water overnight
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Magnifying glasses
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Illustration of lima bean with baby plant inside
Describe the Activity: ○
Divide children into cooperative groups.
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Give each student a seed, lima bean that has been soaked in water so it is easier to open.
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Show them how to open the seeds carefully. (They fall apart, so you must be gentle!)
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Ask students to see if they can find out how a seed turns into a plant. Have them talk about it with their groups as they look.
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Get back into one group and show illustration of lima bean with baby plant inside.
Questions: What would if I didn’t soak the beans in water over night? What do you think would happen if we put a lima bean in a zip lock bag with a wet paper towel?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Have You Ever Met a Tree? Objective: A. The children will explore different professions in studying plants. B. The children will pretend to be a scientist.
Materials Needed:
Drawing paper and something to put paper on so you can draw and write outside
Pencils, crayons, or colored markers
Clear contact paper
Optional: may want to have seat cushions or something to put on the ground to sit on if children go out on wet or muddy days to examine and draw/write about their trees.
Bag or box to keep their materials in.
Describe the Activity: Make observations like a scientist —check it out! Look to see what its physical features are.
Questions: 1. Have you ever met a tree? 2. What are some of the characteristics or features of different trees? Focus:
Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Searching For Seeds
Outdoor
Objectives: A. The children will explore different places to find seeds.
B. The children will search for Acorns, Maple Seeds, and Pine combs.
Materials Needed: First Aid Back Pack
Describe the Activity: 1. Have the children look for different things that have seeds while walking in the neighborhood.
Questions: 1. What do you think cause that tree to have no leaves? 2. Why do you think that tree trunk is leaning to one side?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity: Wildflowers Pictures Collages
Creative art Objectives: A. The children will explore different plants that grow from seeds. B. The children will work on there fine motor skills.
Materials Needed:
Paper
Glue
Scissors
Pictures of wildflowers
Describe the Activity: 1. Let the children pick out what wildflowers Pictures for there collage. 2. Let the children cut out the pictures and glue the pictures on piece of paper.
Questions: 1. Why do you think this flower is called this ? 2. What do you think this flower looks like?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity: Building a flowerbed. Blocks
Objectives: A. The children will explore tools and materials needed to grow plant. B. The Children will build a flowerbed.
Materials Needed:
Shovels
4" x 8” x 2”
Mortar
Trowels
Bricks
Describe the Activity: 1. Have the children dig a 9’x 3’ x 1’ hole. 2. Have the children outline the hole with one layer of bricks. 3. Then have the children put a layer of mortar on. 4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 Questions: What tools can we use to put the mortar? How many different ways can you stack the bricks?
Children’s Literature/ Resource Biography for
Plants that Grow From Seeds Project
1. Title:
The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds
Author:
Joanna Cole
Copyright:
January 1995
Publisher:
Scholastic, Inc
2. Title:
From Seed to Plant
Author:
Gail Gibbons
Copyright:
REPRINT, March 1993
Publisher:
Holiday House, Inc.
3. Title:
A Seed Grows: My First Look at a Plant's Life Cycle
Author:
Pamela Hickman
Copyright:
August 1997
Publisher:
Kids Can Press, Limited
4. Title:
The Tiny Seed
Author:
Eric Carle
Copyright:
March 1991
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Children's
5. Title:
Oh Say Can You Seed?: All About Flowering Plants
Author:
Bonnie Worth
Copyright:
March 2001
Publisher:
Random House, Incorporated
6. Title:
I Wonder Why Trees Have Leaves and Other Questions about Plants
Author:
Andrew Charman
Copyright:
August 2003
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Company
7. Title:
Plants and Flowers
Author:
Sally Hewitt
Copyright:
February 1999
Publisher:
Scholastic Library Publishing
8. Title:
Tree Is a Plant
Author:
Clyde Robert Bulla
Copyright:
September 2001
Publisher:
HarperCollins Children's Books
9. Title:
Soil
Author:
Ron Thomas & Jan Stuchbury
Copyright:
1991
Publisher:
McDougal, Littell & Company
10. Title:
Growing Things
Author:
Ron Thomas & Jan Stuchbury
Copyright:
1991
Publisher:
McDougal, Littell & Company
Concepts and Objectives for Plants That Grow From Seed Project! Concepts
Objectives
1.
There are many plants that grow
1.
The children will explore different
2.
from seed. Tools and materials needed to grow
2.
plants that grow from seed. The children will explore tools and
3.
plants. Seeds have many parts.
3.
materials needed to grow plants. The will explore different parts of
4.
Seeds can be found in many places.
4.
seeds. The children will explore different
5.
places to find seeds. The children will explore different
5.
People who study plants.
professions in studying plants.
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Butterfly Salad Cooking Objectives: A. The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. B. The children will taste different foods.
Materials Needed: Plastic silverware
Paper plates
Ingredients = One serving 2 Pineapple rings Lettuce leaf Cottage cheese Green olives sliced in 1/2 Food coloring Celery stick
Describe the Activity: 1. Place lettuce leaf onto a paper plate. 2. Slice pineapple rings in 1/2 to use as an outline of the butterfly’s wings. 3. Use celery stick as the body. 4. Place cottage cheese inside of pineapple ring. 5. Decorate the cottage cheese with food coloring, pineapple slices and olives.
Questions: 1. What do you like in your salad? 2. What do you think your salad looks like?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Pounded Flower Note cards Creative art
Objectives: The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. The Children will learn cheep ways to make gifts.
Materials Needed:
Note cards
Fresh flowers
Saran wrap and
Hammer
Describe the Activity: 1. Take fresh flowers and place it over note cards. 2. Then lay down saran wrap and start pounding over the flowers with a hammer. 3. Lift plastic wrap and reveal imprint on card.
Questions: 1. Why does the flowers leave marking on the cards?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Salt, Soil and Seeds Science Objectives: 1. The children will explore different professions in studying plants. 2. The children will explore the effect salt has on plants. Materials Needed: For Each Student:
2 cups
Cotton wool
10 wheat seeds
Salt
Clear plastic wrap
Describe the Activity: 1. Cover the bottom of two cups with cotton wool. 2.
Sprinkle some salt over the bottom of one cup.(Label this cup 'salt added')
3.
Place five wheat seeds in each cup. (It helps if you place the seeds with their grooved side upwards.)
4. Wet the cotton wool in both cups and put in a well lighted place. 5. Cover the cups with clear plastic wrap to prevent the seeds from drying out.
6.
Let the children observe their cups every day. (Within four or five days, the seeds should begin to grow. Answer to question one.)
7.
Observe the seeds growing for a few more days. (Answer to question two)
Questions: 1. Which seeds begin to grow first - the seeds with or without salt? 2. What difference do you see?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Carrot Capers Science Objectives: The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. The Children will explore how a plant grows. Materials Needed:
For each student: Carrot with top still attached Carrot journal (8-10pages; shaped like a carrot) Planting bag Small dish Pebbles Small bottle of water Teacher needs a knife to cut top off of carrots.
Describe the Activity: 1.
Discuss what the word 'observation' means with your students, especially in the context of science experiments.
2.
2. Pass out carrot journals and complete carrot. Have students put their name on the cover and draw the carrot on the first page of the journal.
3.
Cut off the top of each carrot (students can eat the bottom part as a healthy snack).
4.
Have students draw the top of their carrot on the second page of the journal.
5.
Pass out planting bags. Have students put pebbles in the bottom of the dish. Place carrot tops on top and pour enough water to cover the bottom of the carrot.
6. Have students draw the carrot in the dish on the third page of their journal. 7. Put dishes in sunlight. 8. Each day, observe the carrots and draw their growth in journals (after 3-5 days, carrot tops will sprout. 9. Share journals and again discuss the importance of observation.
Questions: 1. What do you think would happen if forgot to put the pebbles in?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Flower Soap Balls: Cooking
Objectives: The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. The Children will learn cheep ways to make gifts.
Materials Needed:
Ivory soap bar
Pink roses
Rose water
Rose oil
Describe the Activity: 4. Take ivory soap bar and start grating soap. 5. Grind fresh (yet losing it's luster) pink roses in pestal with a mortar.
6. Add warm rose water along with rose oil…forming soap dough. 7. Roll soap into balls.
Questions: 2. Why does the soap smell so good?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Autumn Scratchings Science
Objectives: A. The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. B. Students recognize signs of autumn such as fallen acorns and leaves turning colors.
Materials Needed:
• • • • • • • •
Crayons - Regular Paint Brushes Tempera (black) construction paper (white) paper towels plastic dinnerware recycled newspaper water containers
Describe the Activity: 1. Using Crayons, rub heavy patches of traditional fall colors on white construction paper. 2. Fill the whole sheet with vibrant colors. 3. Cover your work area with recycled newspaper. Paint over the entire crayon design with black Tempera Paint using a Paint Brush, color the entire sheet. Dry. 4. Using plastic dinnerware as an etching tool, scratch pictures in the paint. You might include trees, leaves, pumpkins, gourds, acorns, nuts, berries, fruits, or vegetables. Questions: 1. What are some of the signs of changing seasons? 2. What symbols remind you of autumn?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Planting Seeds Science
Objectives: A. The children will explore tools and materials needed to grow plants. B. The children will understand that seeds need water and sunlight to sprout.
Materials Needed:
Book on seeds
Ziplock snack bags
Lima bean seeds
Paper towels
Spray bottle containing water
Scotch tape
Describe the Activity: 1. Read book. 2. The students will discuss story to check understanding. 3. The students will place a wet paper towel in ziplock bag and place four seeds on the paper towel, seal the bag, and tape it in the window. 4. The children will speculate about what will happen to the seeds then draw their predictions on a piece of paper. 5. Children will observe the seeds over the next week to watch the seeds sprout.
Questions 1. How does a plant grow? 2. What do you think the seeds will look like on Monday?
Books: Kuchalla, Susan. Now I Know All About Seeds.
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Flower Sponged Shirts Creative Art
Objectives: The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. The Children will learn cheep ways to make gifts.
Materials Needed:
Flat sponge
Cookie cutter
Bowl of water
Fabric paint
T-shirts
Describe the Activity: 8. Take a flat sponge…and trace a cookie cutter flower on sponge. 9. Dip into water and sponge expands. 10.Then dip into fabric paint and sponge onto t-shirts.
Questions: 3. What would happen if we didn’t put the sponge in water first?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Leaf Impressions Science Objectives: A. The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. B. Students make a leaf impression and experiment with color mixing to match natural leaf coloration. Materials Needed: • • • •
Model Magic® (white) Scissors Washable Watercolors Watercolor Brushes
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Leaves paper towels recycled newspaper ribbon ruler water containers yarn
Describe the Activity: 1. Find out why leaves change color in temperate climates in the fall. What weather conditions are necessary? Why do colors vary, even within a single leaf? Collect safe, fallen leaves that are still pliable. 2. Form a tennis-ball sized piece of Crayola® Model Magic® into a circle with the heel of your hand, or roll it with a dowel stick. Make it consistently thick, round, and smooth (use a damp finger). 3. Firmly press the back of a leaf into the modeling compound to make a deep impression. Use a craft stick or other modeling tool to add definition if necessary. With a dowel stick, poke a hole in the top of the compound so it can be hung. Dry 24 hours. 4. Cover your work area with recycled newspaper. Experiment with Crayola® Washable Watercolors and Watercolor Brushes to match leaf colors on the impression. Paint the background a contrasting color. Highlight veins with lighter or darker hues. Dry overnight. 5. Measure with a ruler and cut 6 inches of yarn or ribbon with Crayola® Scissors. Thread it through the hole. Knot and hang.
Questions: What color do you think red and blue make? What color is that you made?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity Title: Veggie Cutouts
Fine motor/manipulative
Objectives: A. The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. B. The children will cut out different vegetables for our word wall.
Materials Needed:
Scissors
Pictures of vegetables.
Describe the Activity: 1. Have the children cut out pictures of vegetables. 2. After the children are have them hang it on word wall.
Questions: 1. How can we use these pictures? 2. What can we cut with scissors?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Tree Stump Balance Beam
Gross motor
Objectives:
A. The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. B. The children will practice their balancing skills.
Materials Needed:
Eight tree stumps from different trees.
Describe the Activity: 1. Line the tree stumps in a straight or curvy pattern and have children walk on the stumps.
Questions: What else can we use these tree stumps for? What would happen if you only stepped on every other tree stump?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Fruit Toss Group Game
Objectives: A. The children will identify different types of fruit. B. The children will take turns.
Materials Needed:
Been bags
Pictures of fruit
Describe the Activity: 1. Set pictures up four across and two deep 2. Get eight to ten children together. 3. Explain the rules to the children. 4. When it’s the his/her turn they will toss their beanbag on the picture of fruit I called out.
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Barking up the Right Tree Math Objectives: A. The children will explore different professions in studying plants. B. Students will make a variety of crayon rubbings with natural materials, then arrange them in creative repetitive patterns using positive and negative shapes.
Materials Needed: • Multicultural Crayons • Scissors • Washable Glue Stick • Manila paper • ruler
Describe the Activity: 1. Measure and cut at least eight 6-inch (15 cm) squares of Manila paper. Peel the paper wrappers from Multicultural Crayons. 2. Find several different textures of tree bark. Make crayon rubbings with various colors. Try different pressures and combinations of colors.
3. Select at least six of the squares. Arrange them in an original repetitive pattern. Cut shapes from the other two squares to make more intricate patterns. Use positive and negative shapes (shapes remaining when a positive shape is cut out and removed). Experiment to find the design that is most interesting. 4. Glue finished designs to a larger piece of paper for display, or create a class mural.
Questions: 1. Tell me about the pattern your making. 2. What dose your picture reminds you of?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Ten Brown Seeds Music / movement Objectives: A. The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. B. The children will participate in acting the song out. Materials Needed:
Title: Ten Brown Seeds (page 1) Ten brown seeds lay straight in a row. Said, 'Now it is time for us to grow.' Up, up the first one shoots; Up, up from its little seed roots. Up, up the second one is seen; Up, up in its little coat of green. Up, up, up the third one's head; Comes, up, up from its little earth bead. Up, up, up the fourth one goes; Up, up, up we can see its little nose; Up, up, up the fifth one pops; Up through the soil and then it stops. (page 2)
Up, up, up the sixth we see; up it comes and it looks at me. Up, up, up the seventh one peeps; up, up, up through the soil it leaps. Up, up, up the eighth one we spy; Up, up, up to stretch to the sky. Up, up, up the ninth one springs; Up, up, up and everything sings. up, up, up the tenth grows fast; Up, up, up and it is the last. Up, up, up - the seeds everyone Become ten plants to smile at the sun. Describe the Activity:
1. Have children pick out what type of seed they are going to be. 2. Have the Children act out the song
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Getting Garden Ready for Planting
Outdoor Activity
Objectives: A. The Children will explore different soil. B. The children will get the flowerbeds ready planting.
Materials Needed:
Shovels
Clay
Topsoil
Rake
Describe the Activity: 1. Have the children put some peat in the flowerbed. 2. Have the children out some topsoil on top of the peat. 3. Have the children rake the soil.
Questions: 1. What can we do with this left over topsoil? 2. What else cam we use a rake for?
People who study plants. GROUP TIME Activity Concept:
People who study plants.
Objective: The children will explore different professions in studying plants. Focusing Activity/Activities Explain what you will do to gain the group's attention, i.e.: finger play, movement activity, song, etc. Include the words and a description of any movements, etc. in your plan or attach to the back. If you hear the elephant clap your hands If you hear the lion clap your hands twice.
Group Experience Give a numerated step-by-step, detailed account of the activity/experience you will be leading with the group. Write in complete sentences and explain your plan clearly so that anyone picking up your plan could lead the group experience from what you have written.
1. Going to read a chapter from a book about people who study plant.
Transition Describe how you will bring closure to your group experience and transition the children to the next activity/activities. If your name starts with an A go pick an activity …
Materials Needed List all materials you will utilize. If using a song or finger play, include words and movements. If using a Book, include the title and author. The book Scientists Who Study Plants by: Mel Higginson And a tape/cd with animal sounds on it.
GROUP TIME FORM Concept:
Seeds have many parts.
Objective:
The children will explore different parts of seeds.
Focusing Activity/Activities Explain what you will do to gain the group's attention, i.e.: finger play, movement activity, song, etc. Include the words and a description of any movements, etc. in your plan or attach to the back. If you hear the seeds rattling raise your foot in the air. If you hear the seeds rattling raise your arm in the air.
Group Experience Give a numerated step-by-step, detailed account of the activity/experience you will be leading with the group. Write in complete sentences and explain your plan clearly so that anyone picking up your plan could lead the group experience from what you have written. 1. Read a book called Seeds by: Terry J. Jennings
Transition Describe how you will bring closure to your group experience and transition the children to the next activity/activities. If your name begins with z go pick an activity, if your name begins with x go pick an activity,
Materials Needed List all materials you will utilize. If using a song or finger play, include words and movements. If using a Book, include the title and author. Seeds by: Terry J. Jennings
Sensory
Objectives: A. The will explore different parts of seeds. B. The will explore to see which type of seed weighs more.
Materials Needed:
Flax Seed
Tomato Seeds
Buckets
Scoops
Shovels
Rakes
Balance Scale
Describe the Activity: 1. Let the children explore the two types of seed.
Questions: What do you think would if we put water with Flax seed? Which seed do you thinks weighs more?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Technology Resources Video:
The Magic School Bus: Gets Planted
Computer Program:
Sammy’s Science House
1. The Missouri Botanical Garden
Field Trip List
314-577-9400 4344 Shaw St. Louis Mo., 63110
2. Shaw Nature Reserve 636-451-3512 Highway 100 Gray Summit, MO 63039
3. Powder Valley Nature 314-301-1500 11715 Cragwold Rd Saint Louis, MO 63122
THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT TREES. GROUP TIME ACTIVITY! Concept: There are many different trees. Objective: The children will explore different trees. Focusing Activity/Activities Explain what you will do to gain the group's attention, i.e.: finger play, movement activity, song, etc. Include the words and a description of any movements, etc. in your plan or attach to the back.
If you hear my voice clap your hands. If you hear my voice tap your head.
Group Experience Give a numerated step-by-step, detailed account of the activity/experience you will be leading with the group. Write in complete sentences and explain your plan clearly so that anyone picking up your plan could lead the group experience from what you have written.
1. Explain to the children how seeds from the trees are planted. Discuss how squirrels store acorns in the ground for winter; maple seeds have wings like a helicopter and whirl to the ground, pinecone seeds sprinkle out when tossed about.
2. Pass out paper and ask the children to draw a picture of the following story as you tell it: "One day Gray Squirrel found an acorn. He knew he could enjoy this delicious nut next winter when no other food around to eat. So he quickly buried it in the ground. (Ask each child to draw an acorn, maple seed, or a pinecone. Encourage them to listen and draw each thing that happens to the acorn, maple seed, or a pinecone.) Soon, little roots begin to appear; a stem starts to grow; more roots sprout; a tree trunk shoots up and gets wider and wider; branches appear and grow longer and longer; small acorns appear. They get larger and larger. Acorns fall from the big oak tree until the ground is covered with them. One day Cray Squirrel comes along again and what do you think he does?"
Transition Describe how you will bring closure to your group experience and transition the children to the next activity/activities. If you drawled an oak tree you may go pick an activity. If you drawled a maple tree you may go pick an activity. If you drawled a pine tree you may go pick an activity.
Materials Needed List all materials you will utilize. If using a song or finger play, include words and movements. If using a Book, include the title and author. Magnifying glass
Acorns, maple seeds, pine cones
Paper Crayons and markers
PLANTS THAT GROW FROM SEED. GROUP TIME ACTIVITY!
Concept: Tools and materials needed to grow plants. Objective: The children will explore tools and materials needed to grow plants.
Focusing Activity/Activities Explain what you will do to gain the group's attention, i.e.: finger play, movement activity, song, etc. Include the words and a description of any movements, etc. in your plan or attach to the back. There was a man lived in the moon, in the moon, in the moon. There was a man lived in the moon and his name was Aiken Drum. And he played upon a ladle, ladle, ladle. And he played upon a ladle and his name was Aiken Drum. And his hair was made of ________, _________, _________, And his hair was made of ______ and his name was Aiken Drum. And his eyes nose mouth ears (additional verses)
Group Experience Give a numerated step-by-step, detailed account of the activity/experience you will be leading with the group. Write in complete sentences and explain your plan clearly so that anyone picking up your plan could lead the group experience from what you have written. 1. Ask the children to pretend to be seeds so they can do "The Seeds and Flowers Dance." First, ask the children to make their bodies small and round like tiny seeds. Tap each child on the back and explain that you are planting them in the soil and pressing soil on top of them. Tell the children that you have the watering can and that you will pretend to water them (walk to each child and tickle the child's back lightly with your fingers as if you are watering them). Explain that the seeds need to be in the light for a long time before they will sprout (count to ten very slowly). Tell the children that after pretending to wait ten days the seeds are beginning to sprout and that when you count to three they should poke one finger out of the soil up toward the sky (I 2 3). Continue counting and tell the children that when you reach IO the tiny sprouts will have grown into tall plants (children slowly stand up). Walk around the room pretending to water the plants and tell them that as you count to 1 0 the flowers will begin to bloom (children raise their arms above their heads). Tell the children to look around the room and see all the beautiful flowers. There are marigolds, zinnias, pansies, roses and snapdragons. What a beautiful garden you've made. 2. Continue the role-play by telling the children that there is a gentle wind (children move their arms slowly, swaying in the wind). Explain that the wind is blowing harder (make the whoosh-whoosh sound of the wind with your voice). Tell the children to keep their roots (feet) planted in the soil and move their body from side to side. Explain that sometimes the wind carries seeds from the flowers to different parts of the garden and they will pretend that the wind will gently scatter these seeds to different spots in the garden (count to 3 and tell the children to gently blow (move) to another place and land gently on the ground). Tell the children that they just danced "The Seeds and Flowers Dance."
Transition Describe how you will bring closure to your group experience and transition the children to the next activity/activities. Plant a seed (Child’s Name) and you will see, you will see, you will see, you will see.
Plant a seed (Child’s Name) and you will see What a beautiful world it can be.
Materials Needed List all materials you will utilize. If using a song or finger play, include words and movements. If using a Book, include the title and author. Watering can.
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Writing Center List
1. Stamps in shapes of flowers.
2. Markers that have different flower smells.
3. Stamps in shapes of different vegetables.
4. Ink pads for the stamps.
5. Scratch and sniff flower stickers.
IT TAKES MANY THINGS TO GROW PLANTS. GROUP TIME ACTIVITY!
Concept: Seeds have many parts. Objective: The will explore different parts of seeds. Focusing Activity/Activities Explain what you will do to gain the group's attention, i.e.: finger play, movement activity, song, etc. Include the words and a description of any movements, etc. in your plan or attach to the back.
How does a plant begin? Ask students for thoughts and predictions. How does a seed turn into a plant? Tell them that scientists make predictions and study things to find answers to their questions. Today you are going to be a scientist.
Group Experience Give a numerated step-by-step, detailed account of the activity/experience you will be leading with the group. Write in complete sentences and explain your plan clearly so that anyone picking up your plan could lead the group experience from what you have written.
Give each student a seed, lima bean, that has been soaked in water so it is easier to open. Show them how to open the seeds carefully. (They fall apart, so you must be gentle!) Ask students to see if they can find out how a seed turns into a plant. After looking on their own, have them help friends find out why. Have them talk about it with their groups as they look. Make sure every child sees a baby plant.
Transition Describe how you will bring closure to your group experience and transition the children to the next activity/activities.
Come back to the carpet and have students discuss their conclusions. Show the illustration of the parts of a seed including the baby plant, seed coat, and plant food.
Materials Needed List all materials you will utilize. If using a song or finger play, include words and movements. If using a Book, include the title and author.
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lima beans; soak in water overnight
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magnifying glasses
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illustration of lima bean with baby plant inside
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divide children into cooperative groups, if desired
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Part 2 - ziploc bags, wet paper towels
THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT VEGETABLES. GROUP TIME ACTIVITY! Concept: There are many plants that grow from seed.
Objective: The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. Focusing Activity/Activities Explain what you will do to gain the group's attention, i.e.: finger play, movement activity, song, etc. Include the words and a description of any movements, etc. in your plan or attach to the back.
Where oh where is our friend _______? Where oh where is our friend _______? Where oh where is our friend _______? Way down yonder in the veggie patch. Pick yourself a (name of veggie) and come back and sit down. Pick yourself a (name of veggie) come back and sit down. Pick your-self a (name of veggie) come back and sit down. Way down yonder in the veggie patch.
Group Experience Give a numerated step-by-step, detailed account of the activity/experience you will be leading with the group. Write in complete sentences and explain your plan clearly so that anyone picking up your plan could lead the group experience from what you have written. 1. Place the vegetables on a low table in the middle of the circle for the children to examine. Involve the children in discussing the name of each vegetable and if they have eaten it. Encourage them to describeeach vegetable. Is it smooth? Rough? Bumpy? The children can categorize the vegetables according to size, color, shape, and texture. 2. Place the vegetable seed packets on the table with the vegetables. Encourage the children to match the seed packets with the vegetables. Ask the children to predict what the seeds in each packet look like. The children can feel the seeds through the packets as they think about the seed's size and shape. As the children make their predictions, help them record their ideas on chart paper or the chalkboard. 3. While the children watch, open each packet of seeds and encourage the children to talk about the seeds. Place each seed packet on a paper plate and tape the packet wrapper onto the plate by the seeds. Involve the children in examining the different seeds with a magnifying glass, comparing and contrastingthe seed's color, size, shape. Encourage the children to talk about the size of the seeds and the size of the vegetables produced.
Transition Describe how you will bring closure to your group experience and transition the children to the next activity/activities. Where oh where is our friend _______? Where oh where is our friend _______? Where oh where is our friend _______?
Way down yonder in the veggie patch. Pick yourself a (name of veggie) and pick an activity. Pick yourself a (name of veggie) and pick an activity. Pick your-self a (name of veggie) and pick an activity. Way down yonder in the veggie patch.
Materials Needed List all materials you will utilize. If using a song or finger play, include words and movements. If using a Book, include the title and author. Variety of vegetable seed packets (carrots, beans, radishes, pumpkins) Vegetables that correspond to the seed packets Chart paper and marker or chalkboard and chalk Paper plates Magnifying glass
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Exploring parts of a seed Subject: Science
Objectives: A. The children will explore different parts of seeds. B. The children will work in corporative groups.
Materials Needed: •
Lima beans; soak in water overnight
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Magnifying glasses
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Illustration of lima bean with baby plant inside
Describe the Activity: ○
Divide children into cooperative groups.
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Give each student a seed, lima bean that has been soaked in water so it is easier to open.
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Show them how to open the seeds carefully. (They fall apart, so you must be gentle!)
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Ask students to see if they can find out how a seed turns into a plant. Have them talk about it with their groups as they look.
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Get back into one group and show illustration of lima bean with baby plant inside.
Questions: What would if I didn’t soak the beans in water over night? What do you think would happen if we put a lima bean in a zip lock bag with a wet paper towel?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Have You Ever Met a Tree? Objective: A. The children will explore different professions in studying plants. B. The children will pretend to be a scientist.
Materials Needed:
Drawing paper and something to put paper on so you can draw and write outside
Pencils, crayons, or colored markers
Clear contact paper
Optional: may want to have seat cushions or something to put on the ground to sit on if children go out on wet or muddy days to examine and draw/write about their trees.
Bag or box to keep their materials in.
Describe the Activity: Make observations like a scientist —check it out! Look to see what its physical features are.
Questions: 1. Have you ever met a tree? 2. What are some of the characteristics or features of different trees? Focus:
Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Searching For Seeds
Outdoor
Objectives: A. The children will explore different places to find seeds.
B. The children will search for Acorns, Maple Seeds, and Pine combs.
Materials Needed: First Aid Back Pack
Describe the Activity: 1. Have the children look for different things that have seeds while walking in the neighborhood.
Questions: 1. What do you think cause that tree to have no leaves? 2. Why do you think that tree trunk is leaning to one side?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity: Wildflowers Pictures Collages
Creative art Objectives: A. The children will explore different plants that grow from seeds. B. The children will work on there fine motor skills.
Materials Needed:
Paper
Glue
Scissors
Pictures of wildflowers
Describe the Activity: 1. Let the children pick out what wildflowers Pictures for there collage. 2. Let the children cut out the pictures and glue the pictures on piece of paper.
Questions: 1. Why do you think this flower is called this ? 2. What do you think this flower looks like?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity: Building a flowerbed. Blocks
Objectives: A. The children will explore tools and materials needed to grow plant. B. The Children will build a flowerbed.
Materials Needed:
Shovels
4" x 8” x 2”
Mortar
Trowels
Bricks
Describe the Activity: 1. Have the children dig a 9’x 3’ x 1’ hole. 2. Have the children outline the hole with one layer of bricks. 3. Then have the children put a layer of mortar on. 4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 Questions: What tools can we use to put the mortar? How many different ways can you stack the bricks?
Children’s Literature/ Resource Biography for
Plants that Grow From Seeds Project
1. Title:
The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds
Author:
Joanna Cole
Copyright:
January 1995
Publisher:
Scholastic, Inc
2. Title:
From Seed to Plant
Author:
Gail Gibbons
Copyright:
REPRINT, March 1993
Publisher:
Holiday House, Inc.
3. Title:
A Seed Grows: My First Look at a Plant's Life Cycle
Author:
Pamela Hickman
Copyright:
August 1997
Publisher:
Kids Can Press, Limited
4. Title:
The Tiny Seed
Author:
Eric Carle
Copyright:
March 1991
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Children's
5. Title:
Oh Say Can You Seed?: All About Flowering Plants
Author:
Bonnie Worth
Copyright:
March 2001
Publisher:
Random House, Incorporated
6. Title:
I Wonder Why Trees Have Leaves and Other Questions about Plants
Author:
Andrew Charman
Copyright:
August 2003
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Company
7. Title:
Plants and Flowers
Author:
Sally Hewitt
Copyright:
February 1999
Publisher:
Scholastic Library Publishing
8. Title:
Tree Is a Plant
Author:
Clyde Robert Bulla
Copyright:
September 2001
Publisher:
HarperCollins Children's Books
9. Title:
Soil
Author:
Ron Thomas & Jan Stuchbury
Copyright:
1991
Publisher:
McDougal, Littell & Company
10. Title:
Growing Things
Author:
Ron Thomas & Jan Stuchbury
Copyright:
1991
Publisher:
McDougal, Littell & Company
Concepts and Objectives for Plants That Grow From Seed Project! Concepts
Objectives
1.
There are many plants that grow
1.
The children will explore different
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from seed. Tools and materials needed to grow
2.
plants that grow from seed. The children will explore tools and
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plants. Seeds have many parts.
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materials needed to grow plants. The will explore different parts of
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Seeds can be found in many places.
4.
seeds. The children will explore different
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places to find seeds. The children will explore different
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People who study plants.
professions in studying plants.
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Butterfly Salad Cooking Objectives: A. The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. B. The children will taste different foods.
Materials Needed: Plastic silverware
Paper plates
Ingredients = One serving 2 Pineapple rings Lettuce leaf Cottage cheese Green olives sliced in 1/2 Food coloring Celery stick
Describe the Activity: 1. Place lettuce leaf onto a paper plate. 2. Slice pineapple rings in 1/2 to use as an outline of the butterfly’s wings. 3. Use celery stick as the body. 4. Place cottage cheese inside of pineapple ring. 5. Decorate the cottage cheese with food coloring, pineapple slices and olives.
Questions: 1. What do you like in your salad? 2. What do you think your salad looks like?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Pounded Flower Note cards Creative art
Objectives: The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. The Children will learn cheep ways to make gifts.
Materials Needed:
Note cards
Fresh flowers
Saran wrap and
Hammer
Describe the Activity: 1. Take fresh flowers and place it over note cards. 2. Then lay down saran wrap and start pounding over the flowers with a hammer. 3. Lift plastic wrap and reveal imprint on card.
Questions: 1. Why does the flowers leave marking on the cards?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Salt, Soil and Seeds Science Objectives: 1. The children will explore different professions in studying plants. 2. The children will explore the effect salt has on plants. Materials Needed: For Each Student:
2 cups
Cotton wool
10 wheat seeds
Salt
Clear plastic wrap
Describe the Activity: 1. Cover the bottom of two cups with cotton wool. 2.
Sprinkle some salt over the bottom of one cup.(Label this cup 'salt added')
3.
Place five wheat seeds in each cup. (It helps if you place the seeds with their grooved side upwards.)
4. Wet the cotton wool in both cups and put in a well lighted place. 5. Cover the cups with clear plastic wrap to prevent the seeds from drying out.
6.
Let the children observe their cups every day. (Within four or five days, the seeds should begin to grow. Answer to question one.)
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Observe the seeds growing for a few more days. (Answer to question two)
Questions: 1. Which seeds begin to grow first - the seeds with or without salt? 2. What difference do you see?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Carrot Capers Science Objectives: The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. The Children will explore how a plant grows. Materials Needed:
For each student: Carrot with top still attached Carrot journal (8-10pages; shaped like a carrot) Planting bag Small dish Pebbles Small bottle of water Teacher needs a knife to cut top off of carrots.
Describe the Activity: 1.
Discuss what the word 'observation' means with your students, especially in the context of science experiments.
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2. Pass out carrot journals and complete carrot. Have students put their name on the cover and draw the carrot on the first page of the journal.
3.
Cut off the top of each carrot (students can eat the bottom part as a healthy snack).
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Have students draw the top of their carrot on the second page of the journal.
5.
Pass out planting bags. Have students put pebbles in the bottom of the dish. Place carrot tops on top and pour enough water to cover the bottom of the carrot.
6. Have students draw the carrot in the dish on the third page of their journal. 7. Put dishes in sunlight. 8. Each day, observe the carrots and draw their growth in journals (after 3-5 days, carrot tops will sprout. 9. Share journals and again discuss the importance of observation.
Questions: 1. What do you think would happen if forgot to put the pebbles in?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Flower Soap Balls: Cooking
Objectives: The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. The Children will learn cheep ways to make gifts.
Materials Needed:
Ivory soap bar
Pink roses
Rose water
Rose oil
Describe the Activity: 4. Take ivory soap bar and start grating soap. 5. Grind fresh (yet losing it's luster) pink roses in pestal with a mortar.
6. Add warm rose water along with rose oil…forming soap dough. 7. Roll soap into balls.
Questions: 2. Why does the soap smell so good?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Autumn Scratchings Science
Objectives: A. The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. B. Students recognize signs of autumn such as fallen acorns and leaves turning colors.
Materials Needed:
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Crayons - Regular Paint Brushes Tempera (black) construction paper (white) paper towels plastic dinnerware recycled newspaper water containers
Describe the Activity: 1. Using Crayons, rub heavy patches of traditional fall colors on white construction paper. 2. Fill the whole sheet with vibrant colors. 3. Cover your work area with recycled newspaper. Paint over the entire crayon design with black Tempera Paint using a Paint Brush, color the entire sheet. Dry. 4. Using plastic dinnerware as an etching tool, scratch pictures in the paint. You might include trees, leaves, pumpkins, gourds, acorns, nuts, berries, fruits, or vegetables. Questions: 1. What are some of the signs of changing seasons? 2. What symbols remind you of autumn?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Planting Seeds Science
Objectives: A. The children will explore tools and materials needed to grow plants. B. The children will understand that seeds need water and sunlight to sprout.
Materials Needed:
Book on seeds
Ziplock snack bags
Lima bean seeds
Paper towels
Spray bottle containing water
Scotch tape
Describe the Activity: 1. Read book. 2. The students will discuss story to check understanding. 3. The students will place a wet paper towel in ziplock bag and place four seeds on the paper towel, seal the bag, and tape it in the window. 4. The children will speculate about what will happen to the seeds then draw their predictions on a piece of paper. 5. Children will observe the seeds over the next week to watch the seeds sprout.
Questions 1. How does a plant grow? 2. What do you think the seeds will look like on Monday?
Books: Kuchalla, Susan. Now I Know All About Seeds.
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Flower Sponged Shirts Creative Art
Objectives: The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. The Children will learn cheep ways to make gifts.
Materials Needed:
Flat sponge
Cookie cutter
Bowl of water
Fabric paint
T-shirts
Describe the Activity: 8. Take a flat sponge…and trace a cookie cutter flower on sponge. 9. Dip into water and sponge expands. 10.Then dip into fabric paint and sponge onto t-shirts.
Questions: 3. What would happen if we didn’t put the sponge in water first?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Leaf Impressions Science Objectives: A. The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. B. Students make a leaf impression and experiment with color mixing to match natural leaf coloration. Materials Needed: • • • •
Model Magic® (white) Scissors Washable Watercolors Watercolor Brushes
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Leaves paper towels recycled newspaper ribbon ruler water containers yarn
Describe the Activity: 1. Find out why leaves change color in temperate climates in the fall. What weather conditions are necessary? Why do colors vary, even within a single leaf? Collect safe, fallen leaves that are still pliable. 2. Form a tennis-ball sized piece of Crayola® Model Magic® into a circle with the heel of your hand, or roll it with a dowel stick. Make it consistently thick, round, and smooth (use a damp finger). 3. Firmly press the back of a leaf into the modeling compound to make a deep impression. Use a craft stick or other modeling tool to add definition if necessary. With a dowel stick, poke a hole in the top of the compound so it can be hung. Dry 24 hours. 4. Cover your work area with recycled newspaper. Experiment with Crayola® Washable Watercolors and Watercolor Brushes to match leaf colors on the impression. Paint the background a contrasting color. Highlight veins with lighter or darker hues. Dry overnight. 5. Measure with a ruler and cut 6 inches of yarn or ribbon with Crayola® Scissors. Thread it through the hole. Knot and hang.
Questions: What color do you think red and blue make? What color is that you made?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity Title: Veggie Cutouts
Fine motor/manipulative
Objectives: A. The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. B. The children will cut out different vegetables for our word wall.
Materials Needed:
Scissors
Pictures of vegetables.
Describe the Activity: 1. Have the children cut out pictures of vegetables. 2. After the children are have them hang it on word wall.
Questions: 1. How can we use these pictures? 2. What can we cut with scissors?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Tree Stump Balance Beam
Gross motor
Objectives:
A. The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. B. The children will practice their balancing skills.
Materials Needed:
Eight tree stumps from different trees.
Describe the Activity: 1. Line the tree stumps in a straight or curvy pattern and have children walk on the stumps.
Questions: What else can we use these tree stumps for? What would happen if you only stepped on every other tree stump?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Fruit Toss Group Game
Objectives: A. The children will identify different types of fruit. B. The children will take turns.
Materials Needed:
Been bags
Pictures of fruit
Describe the Activity: 1. Set pictures up four across and two deep 2. Get eight to ten children together. 3. Explain the rules to the children. 4. When it’s the his/her turn they will toss their beanbag on the picture of fruit I called out.
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Barking up the Right Tree Math Objectives: A. The children will explore different professions in studying plants. B. Students will make a variety of crayon rubbings with natural materials, then arrange them in creative repetitive patterns using positive and negative shapes.
Materials Needed: • Multicultural Crayons • Scissors • Washable Glue Stick • Manila paper • ruler
Describe the Activity: 1. Measure and cut at least eight 6-inch (15 cm) squares of Manila paper. Peel the paper wrappers from Multicultural Crayons. 2. Find several different textures of tree bark. Make crayon rubbings with various colors. Try different pressures and combinations of colors.
3. Select at least six of the squares. Arrange them in an original repetitive pattern. Cut shapes from the other two squares to make more intricate patterns. Use positive and negative shapes (shapes remaining when a positive shape is cut out and removed). Experiment to find the design that is most interesting. 4. Glue finished designs to a larger piece of paper for display, or create a class mural.
Questions: 1. Tell me about the pattern your making. 2. What dose your picture reminds you of?
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Ten Brown Seeds Music / movement Objectives: A. The children will explore different plants that grow from seed. B. The children will participate in acting the song out. Materials Needed:
Title: Ten Brown Seeds (page 1) Ten brown seeds lay straight in a row. Said, 'Now it is time for us to grow.' Up, up the first one shoots; Up, up from its little seed roots. Up, up the second one is seen; Up, up in its little coat of green. Up, up, up the third one's head; Comes, up, up from its little earth bead. Up, up, up the fourth one goes; Up, up, up we can see its little nose; Up, up, up the fifth one pops; Up through the soil and then it stops. (page 2)
Up, up, up the sixth we see; up it comes and it looks at me. Up, up, up the seventh one peeps; up, up, up through the soil it leaps. Up, up, up the eighth one we spy; Up, up, up to stretch to the sky. Up, up, up the ninth one springs; Up, up, up and everything sings. up, up, up the tenth grows fast; Up, up, up and it is the last. Up, up, up - the seeds everyone Become ten plants to smile at the sun. Describe the Activity:
1. Have children pick out what type of seed they are going to be. 2. Have the Children act out the song
Focus: Plants that grow from seed. Activity, Getting Garden Ready for Planting
Outdoor Activity
Objectives: A. The Children will explore different soil. B. The children will get the flowerbeds ready planting.
Materials Needed:
Shovels
Clay
Topsoil
Rake
Describe the Activity: 1. Have the children put some peat in the flowerbed. 2. Have the children out some topsoil on top of the peat. 3. Have the children rake the soil.
Questions: 1. What can we do with this left over topsoil? 2. What else cam we use a rake for?
People who study plants. GROUP TIME Activity Concept:
People who study plants.
Objective: The children will explore different professions in studying plants. Focusing Activity/Activities Explain what you will do to gain the group's attention, i.e.: finger play, movement activity, song, etc. Include the words and a description of any movements, etc. in your plan or attach to the back. If you hear the elephant clap your hands If you hear the lion clap your hands twice.
Group Experience Give a numerated step-by-step, detailed account of the activity/experience you will be leading with the group. Write in complete sentences and explain your plan clearly so that anyone picking up your plan could lead the group experience from what you have written.
1. Going to read a chapter from a book about people who study plant.
Transition Describe how you will bring closure to your group experience and transition the children to the next activity/activities. If your name starts with an A go pick an activity …
Materials Needed List all materials you will utilize. If using a song or finger play, include words and movements. If using a Book, include the title and author. The book Scientists Who Study Plants by: Mel Higginson And a tape/cd with animal sounds on it.
GROUP TIME FORM Concept:
Seeds have many parts.
Objective:
The children will explore different parts of seeds.
Focusing Activity/Activities Explain what you will do to gain the group's attention, i.e.: finger play, movement activity, song, etc. Include the words and a description of any movements, etc. in your plan or attach to the back. If you hear the seeds rattling raise your foot in the air. If you hear the seeds rattling raise your arm in the air.
Group Experience Give a numerated step-by-step, detailed account of the activity/experience you will be leading with the group. Write in complete sentences and explain your plan clearly so that anyone picking up your plan could lead the group experience from what you have written. 1. Read a book called Seeds by: Terry J. Jennings
Transition Describe how you will bring closure to your group experience and transition the children to the next activity/activities. If your name begins with z go pick an activity, if your name begins with x go pick an activity,
Materials Needed List all materials you will utilize. If using a song or finger play, include words and movements. If using a Book, include the title and author. Seeds by: Terry J. Jennings
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