Talk Together: Seeds, Seeds, Seeds #2

Materials

“Fruits, Vegetables, Seeds” chart
“One Seed, Few Seeds, Many Seeds” chart

Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
Language/L.PK.MA.6: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, listening to books read aloud, activities, and play.

MA Draft STE Standards:

Life Sciences/From Molecules to Organisms: Inheritance and Variation of Traits/LS1/3.A: Describe/draw and compare the body parts of animals (including themselves) and plants they are investigating [System] and explain functions of some of the observable body parts. [Structure and Function]
Life Sciences/From Molecules to Organisms: Inheritance and Variation of Traits/LS1/3.C: Use their sense in their exploration and play to gather information. [Structure and Function]

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.
Science Knowledge/Conceptual Knowledge of Natural and Physical Worlds: Observes, describes, and discusses living things and natural processes.

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/Life Sciences 10: Observe and identify the characteristics and needs of living things: humans, animals, and plants.

Talk Together: Seeds, Seeds, Seeds #2

STEM Key Concepts: Many foods that animals, including humans, eat come from plants; We eat certain leaves, roots, fruits, and seeds, Fruits have seeds; Seeds hold what a plant needs to make more of itself

ELA Focus Skills: Compare and Contrast, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary

Tell children they are going to explore lots of fruit and vegetable seeds today. Ask children if they had any fruits or vegetables at home yesterday or today. If so, ask them to describe the taste, feel, and smell, or aroma, and whether or not the fruit or vegetable had seeds. If some children cannot participate, ask them to remember a fruit or vegetable they tasted at school yesterday and to describe that.

Review that some fruits have different types of seeds and different numbers of seeds. Revisit the “One Seed, Few Seeds, Many Seeds” chart as you discuss. Then ask children if they have any ideas they want to add to the “Fruits, Vegetables, Seeds” chart.