- chart paper
- marker
- sprouted seed plants from Day 1
- seed
- sprout
MA Standards:
Language/L.PK.MA.6: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, listening to books read aloud, activities, and play.
Head Start Outcomes:
Science Knowledge/Scientific Skills and Method: Participates in simple investigations to form hypotheses, gather observations, draw conclusions, and form generalizations.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 2: Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
Science and Technology/Inquiry Skills 4: Record observations and share ideas through simple forms of representation such as drawings.
Small Group: Growing Sprouts #2
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STEM Key Concepts: Some plants start from seeds; 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: Prepare a chart for children to record when they rinse the seeds. Make a three-column chart: left column, “children’s names”; middle column, “1st rinse”; right column, “2nd rinse.”
Assign a pair of children to be in charge of taking care of the sprouted seed plants from Day 1.
- Review with children how to rinse the seeds. Tell them that they need to rinse the seeds two times a day. Explain that each time they rinse the seeds, they are to put an “x” on the chart in the column next to their name. Say, This way we can be sure the seeds have been rinsed two times each day.
- Ask children to draw to record any changes they observe in the plants. Ask questions to focus them, such as, Have there been any changes to any parts of the seed yet? Are they sprouting?
- Then have children report to the rest of the group, using their drawings to help guide them. Tape the illustration on a large sheet of chart paper. Record the day under the illustration.
- Tell children that each day the children recording the sprout’s changes will draw a picture and tape it on the chart. Say, That way, we can all track the changes the sprouts have made from one day to the next.