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Activity can be used from grades 1 to grade 6
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Title: Seeds and Plants
Objective or Purpose: Introduction to seeds, their sizes, and how some we eat and others we continue to grow for more food and beauty. Uses of plants for food and shelter
Materials: Seeds of all sorts: peas, corn, radishes, lettuce, raw peanuts, beans, etc.
Activities: Listening skills, recording data, and hands on activities.
Lesson Design Teacher Procedure Student Activities
Anticipatory Set
Journal writing and review comments, questions, and discussions.
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Pre-class work activity:"What are seeds" Journal writing - "What kind of seeds do you eat, What kind of seeds do you plant, and why?"
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Listen, to the rules - we will sit and examine seeds of all types. We will discuss similarities and differences. Students can touch and feel.
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Input and Modeling
Introduce the "stuff needed for success", and show what they need to know.
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Discuss how we use seeds. Discuss student's responses.
Teacher "guides" children and realize the way we use seeds and why we plant some, we eat some, we plant more
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Listen, see, and take notes. Teacher charts various types of seeds, taping a sample of each to the left of the description.
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Guided Practice
Show-em how it's done.
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Make sure students know how to handle the materials and help them understand the purpose of this exercise.
Use the chart to review a particular seed, what it will grow up to look like, how we cook it, and eat it, or enjoy the flowers.
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Hear, see, do - Students draw their own diagrams.
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Closure
Comparisons and wrap-ups
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Discuss - What did we learn Why is it important?
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Listen to the summary of the day's class, and ask students to find or draw other types of seeds we couldn't cover, and what their significance would be.
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Independent Practice: Find and bring in more seeds.
Extension to the lesson: Bring in clear, clean, empty 2 liter soda bottles.
Duration of the lesson: Approximately 49 minutes.
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