Week 4: Places Plants 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 listen to and discuss the book A Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds, by Jean Richards. They examine a selection of fresh fruits and the seeds inside.

A group of children grow tomatoes and sunflowers in a garden.

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 view photos and measurements of their bean seeds and bean plants taken on different days. They discuss how the seeds and plants have changed and grown, and pose questions.

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 explore a virtual farm and discover how a balance of light and water helps plants grow. In the Kitchen, they make salad from vegetables that are leaves, stems, roots, and fruits.

In the video, children mark off a small space on the ground outside, then look very closely to see what living things they can find in that space.

Children arrange Bean Growth Sequence Cards in the correct order to show how a bean grows from seed to mature plant.

Children search outdoors for the items on the Nature Scavenger Hunt list and photograph the items they find: a big leaf, a small leaf, tree roots, two different flowers, and two plants that are the same.

Children reflect on their discoveries as they view photos and videos from the Nature Scavenger Hunt and Let’s Explore a Small Space activities.

Children view photos and measurements of their bean seeds and bean plants taken on different days. They discuss how the seeds and plants have changed and grown, and pose questions.