Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Share knowledge about potatoes, including how they are grown and in what forms we can eat them.
- Look at and compare different types of potato.
- Prepare tubs , plant chitted seed potatoes and make predictions.
- Consider what we need to do to encourage our seed potato to grow and produce lots of potatoes.
Activities
- Share what they already know about potatoes, including how they are grown and in what forms we can eat them.
- Consider the different types of potato, including their similarities and differences.
- Work in teams to prepare tubs and plant chitted potatoes.
- Consider what each team needs to do to look after the potato plants.
Investigation - exploring
In groups, prepare tubs and plant chitted potatoes.
Vocabulary
Plant, leaf, grow, weed, change, living, water, healthy, similar to, different from, potato, chitting