Lesson Activities / Tasks

Resources:

VIDEO: How do plants grow?:

Pupils Workbook - 'Plants - what use are they?'

Lesson Activities

• Watch video - dialog below
• Class activity each pupils plants own pot of microgreens
• See http://www.grow2educate.co.uk/crops/microgreens/ for details of seeds etc
• Salad bowls can be found online like here - http://www.gmpackaging.co.uk/Cake-container-uk
• Start a diary of 'My Seeds' record what happens to the seeds as they emerge do this with drawings which pupils then label.
• Complete relevant section of pupil work book

Plenary:

• Do quiz for first section answers…

Video Dialog

• Can you name any plants? What about these?
• Can you name any parts of plants?
• Perhaps if you grow and care for some plants you will be able to name some plant parts and describe the basic structure of a plant?
• So how do we grow a plant?
• We can grow plants from seeds
• If you put a seed in a pot of soil or compost not too deep it should grow.
• Your teacher will help you do this - the seeds you could use are....
• Pea, Beetroot, Chard, Carrots
• You can eat some of the seedlings - they are eaten in some top restaurants as 'micro-greens'
• You could also carefully plant some of the seedlings into bigger containers or plant pots
• Then you can watch them grow and follow their life cycle
• Peas will  flower and produce seeds
• The carrots and beetroot will produce food you might know!