Week 2: Growing and Measuring Plants

Children listen to the book, One Bean, by Anne Rockwell and place pictures of a growing bean plant in sequential order.

What materials can children use to plan and design a mini class garden? What do their plants need to grow?

Children explore a virtual farm and discover how a balance of light and water helps plants grow. In the Kitchen, they make salad from vegetables that are leaves, stems, roots, and fruits.

Children photograph and describe their bean plants in a bag. Then they take a photo and discuss their bean plants growing in soil. Once a bean plant has emerged from the soil, they also record the plant’s measurement.

What materials can children use to plan and design a mini class garden? What do their plants need to grow?

Children explore a virtual farm and discover how a balance of light and water helps plants grow. In the Kitchen, they make salad from vegetables that are leaves, stems, roots, and fruits.

Children use collage materials to create art of plants and seeds with sprouts and roots.

Children arrange Bean Growth Sequence Cards in the correct order to show how a bean grows from seed to mature plant.

Children view photos and measurements of their bean seeds and bean plants taken on different days. They discuss how the seeds and plants have changed and grown, and pose questions.

Children watch and respond to a time-lapse video of a bean seed growing into a plant.

Children view photos and measurements of their bean seeds and bean plants taken on different days. They discuss how the seeds and plants have changed and grown, and pose questions.

Children watch and respond to a time-lapse video of a bean seed growing into a plant.