Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Recall knowledge about plants’ needs.
• Know what cress seeds need and plant them in contrasting locations.
• Make predictions about cress growth and keep records

Activities

1. Understand what plants need to be healthy.
2. Know that cress seeds need water and the right temperature to germinate and grow.
3. Predict, and begin to give reasons for what will happen to the cress in the dark cupboard.
4. Start a record of the cress growth.

Investigation - exploring over time, pattern seeking, problem solving
Place one egg shell with cress in a cupboard and talk about what might happen to the cress and its growth.
Start a record of the cress growth and predict how long it will take for the cress to grow long enough to eat.

Vocabulary
Warmth, light, water, dry, wet, moist, growth, germination