- bowl of sprouts (preferably real, but pictures if real are not available)
- plant
- sprout
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
English Language Arts/Language/L.PK.MA.6 Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, listening to books read aloud, activities, and play.
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Language Development/Expressive Language Uses language to express ideas and needs.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 2 Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
Talk Together: Edible Sprouts
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STEM Key Concepts: Plants grow in many places; Many foods that animals, including humans, eat come from plants; We eat certain leaves, roots, fruits, and seeds
ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Educator Prep: Wash the sprouts before children handle them.
Review the “Plants All Around” chart and ask children what new ideas they have to add to the chart based on their observations last week.
- Then hold up the bowl of sprouts. Have children describe the sprouts and then ask, What do you think they are?
- Pass a few sprouts to each child. Ask children to look closely at them and then have children describe the sprouts again.
- Ask, Do they look like anything you have ever seen or had before?
Explain that they are called sprouts and they are a plant that people and other animals eat. Tell children they will be learning more about plants that animals—including humans—eat.