Growing Beans: Journal Review

Circle Time: Wrap-Up

This activity reviews the data children documented during each Guided Small Group Growing Beans: Journal Entries activity.

1. Draw attention to the My Bean Seed drawings and ask children to describe what they see. Encourage them to use the terms seed, seed coat, sprout, and (if it applies) root and root hairs.
2. Use a projector, if possible, to show the Sprouting Seeds Photo Album from the journal you have selected (for example, the Orange Journal). Scroll through the images in the album. Have children describe how the sprouting seeds grew and changed over time.
3. From the All Activities screen, tap Compare Class Plants to view all images. Look for sprouting seed images. Tap the Compare button, then choose the photo of the seeds taken on Day 1 or 2 as well as the most recent photo taken of the bean seeds from the same journal. Compare the two photos, side by side. Possible discussion ideas:
   • What is new with our bean seeds? How have they changed? What plant parts do you notice?
   • Do any bean seeds have sprouts? How many seeds have sprouted?
   • What do the sprouts look like?
   • What do you think is happening with our bean seeds that we planted in the soil? Why do you think that?
   • What do you still wonder about our bean seeds or how they grow?
   • Why do you think we are taking photos of the bean seeds each day?

Guided Small Group

1. Sprouting Seeds Photo Album. From the All Activities screen, have a child tap the Sprouting Seeds Photo Album. Remind the children that this is a place where they can see all the photos they have taken of the bean seeds in a bag. Tap the Day 1 photo of the bean seeds.
   • Have the children compare the way the bean seeds look now with photos taken of the plants before today. Possible discussion ideas:
   • How are these pictures different?
   • How have our seeds grown and changed?
   • What questions do you have about our bean seeds and how you think they will continue to change? What do you wonder about our seeds?
2. Growing Graph photos. Once a bean plant has been photographed above the soil for more than one day, have a child tap Growing Graph from the All Activities screen. Direct children’s attention to the sequence of bean plant photos at the bottom of the graph. (Tap on a photo to enlarge it.) Scroll through the photos. Have the children compare the way the bean plants looked in the previous photos and the way they look now. You may wish to go the Compare Class Plants section and use the Compare tool to examine two photos of the same plant, taken on two different days, side by side. Discuss how the plants have changed. Possible discussion ideas:
   • How have our plants changed?
   • How are they the same? What is different?
   • Are there new leaves? Are the plants growing straighter or are they leaning more?
   • What questions do you have about our bean plants? What do you wonder about them?
   • How do you think our plants will change over the next few days? Why do you think that?
3. Growing Graph measurements. Discuss the plant’s growth. Possible discussion ideas:
   • Do you think our plant is taller today than it was the last time we measured it? Do you think it got shorter? Do you think it stayed the same? Why do you think that?
   • After children have thought about this and made a prediction, find out the answer from the information in the Growing Graph. From the Activity Index screen, have a child tap Growing Graph.
   • Talk about data shown on the graph and help children make connections to the Unifix® cube towers they have been building in the Watch It Grow hands-on activity.
   • What do you notice about how the plant’s height has changed?
   • Does it get a lot taller each time we measure it, or just a little taller?
   • As seems relevant to the discussion and children’s ideas, tap the thumbnail images of the plants to see those photos larger.

Circle Time: Wrap-Up

1. Show, discuss, and compare the bean seed photos from the Sprouting Seeds Photo Album you have selected. Use a projector, if possible, and the Compare Class Plants tool, as described above.
2. Repeat with the photos you have selected of beans planted in soil, seen in the Growing Graph. Tap any photo to open it and scroll through the sequence of photos.
3. Encourage children to discuss the photos. Possible discussion ideas:
   • What did you notice about your bean seeds and plants today?
   • How have they changed? What plant parts do you see?
   • What do you wonder about your seeds and plants?
   • What questions do you have?
   • Write down children’s thoughts. Encourage them to build on each other’s ideas.

Learning Center

1. Invite children to review the Sprouting Seeds Photo Album and the Growing Graph in pairs or individually. Encourage them to look at each sequence of photos and measurements.
2. Use prompts such as those below to engage children in science and math talk. 
   • What did you notice about your bean seeds and plants today? 
   • How have they changed? What plant parts do you see? 
   • What do you wonder about your seeds and plants? 
3. Model language to describe the changes that have occurred in the seeds and plants over time, as seen in the sequence of photos. 
4. Encourage children to listen to and build on each other’s ideas.

Circle Time: Wrap-Up

1. Show, discuss, and compare the bean seed photos from the Sprouting Seeds Photo Album you have selected. Use a projector, if possible, and the Compare Class Plants tool, as described above.
2. Repeat with the photos you have selected of beans planted in soil, seen in the Growing Graph. Tap any photo to open it and scroll through the sequence of photos.
3. Encourage children to discuss the photos. Possible discussion ideas:
   • What did you notice about your bean seeds and plants today?
   • How have they changed? What plant parts do you see?
   • What do you wonder about your seeds and plants?
   • What questions do you have?
   • Write down children’s thoughts. Encourage them to build on each other’s ideas.

Learning Center

1. Invite children to review the Sprouting Seeds Photo Album and the Growing Graph in pairs or individually. Encourage them to look at each sequence of photos and measurements.
2. Use prompts such as those above to engage children in science and math talk.
3. Model language to describe the changes that have occurred in the seeds and plants over time, as seen in the sequence of photos.
4. Encourage children to listen to and build on each other’s ideas.

Learning Center

This builds on children’s review of their plants’ growth during Science Talk: How Our Beans Grew.

1. Invite children to review the Sprouting Seeds Photo Album and the Growing Graph in pairs or individually. Encourage them to look at each sequence of photos and measurements.
2. Use prompts such as those above to engage children in science and math talk.
3. Model language to describe the changes that have occurred in the seeds and plants over time, as seen in the sequence of photos.
4. Encourage children to listen to and build on each other’s ideas.

Children will continue to review their plants’ growth during Review & Reflect.

Circle Time: Wrap-Up

1. Show, discuss, and compare the bean seed photos from the Sprouting Seeds Photo Album you have selected. Use a projector, if possible, and the Compare Class Plants tool, as described above.
2. Repeat with the photos you have selected of beans planted in soil, seen in the Growing Graph. Tap any photo to open it and scroll through the sequence of photos.
3. Encourage children to discuss the photos. Possible discussion ideas:
   • What did you notice about your bean seeds and plants over the past few weeks?
   • How have they changed? What plant parts do you see now that you did not see when we first planted the seed?
   • How many beans have sprouted?
   • What do you wonder about your seeds and plants?
   • What questions do you have?
   • Write down children’s thoughts. Encourage children to build on each other’s ideas.

Learning Center

1. Invite children to review the Sprouting Seeds Photo Album and the Growing Graph in pairs or individually. Encourage them to look at each sequence of photos and measurements.
2. Use prompts such as those above to engage children in science and math talk.
3. Model language to describe the changes that have occurred in the seeds and plants over time, as seen in the sequence of photos.
4. Encourage children to listen to and build on each other’s ideas.