Week 3: Plants We Eat

Children listen to the book, Plants Feed Me, by Lizzy Rockwell. They create a salad recipe that includes leaves, roots, fruits, seeds, and stems.

Children visit a digital community garden and help protect the strawberries from being eaten by bunnies. They design solutions to keep the bunnies away from the strawberry plants, and explore and test different materials as they play.

Children identify and describe parts of the sprouting bean seeds and plants. They draw a picture of the seed and/or plant, add labels, and talk about the function of some of these parts.

Children measure the tallest plant, build a cube tower to the same height, and predict how tall the plant will be the next time they measure it.

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.

Children throw a giant die and remove cards from a game board if the die shows a source of water or light that will help a plant grow.

Children visit a digital community garden and help protect the strawberries from being eaten by bunnies. They design solutions to keep the bunnies away from the strawberry plants, and explore and test different materials as they play.

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

Children draw a plant to add to the Class Garden Mural. They identify parts and describe where each plant part grows—below or above the soil.

Children assemble their own salad from a buffet table that includes vegetables that are leaves, seeds, fruits, roots, and stems.

The class examines and compares different kinds of plants and sprouting seeds from the Class Garden.

Children listen to the book, Plants Feed Me, by Lizzy Rockwell. They create a salad recipe that includes leaves, roots, fruits, seeds, and stems.