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.
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?"
Listen, to the rules - we will sit and examine seeds of all types.  We will discuss similarities and differences.  Students can touch and feel.
Input and Modeling

Introduce the "stuff needed for success", and show what they need to know.
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
Listen, see, and take notes.  Teacher charts various types of seeds, taping a sample of each to the left of the description.
Guided Practice
Show-em how it's done.
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.
Hear, see, do - Students draw their own diagrams.
Closure
Comparisons and wrap-ups
Discuss - What did we learn  Why is it important?
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.

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.