Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Examine, draw and taste a range of fruits and vegetables that could be grown in a garden.
• Talk about experiences of growing plants or about someone they know who has a garden.
• Identify, label and sketch growing plants.
• Make a map of the garden plot, identifying the plants and predicting what they will turn into when they are fully grown. Label the map with any recognisable mini-beast habitats or sketches of mini-beasts found in the area.

Activities

1. Discuss a range of fruit and vegetables and make close observations and drawings.
2. Identify and closely observe plants outside the school building.
3. Make a collective map of the garden plot, labelling the plants and predicting what they will turn into when they are fully grown.

Investigation - exploring
Go outside to the school garden to look at plants.
Make a map of the garden plot, identifying the plants and predicting what they will turn into when they are fully grown.

Vocabulary
Plant, leaf, grow, weed, change, living, water, healthy, similar to, different from