Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Share knowledge about gardens and gardeners.
• Design and set up a garden centre in the classroom.
• Plant a bean in a bag and keep it in the classroom garden centre.
• Predict the outcomes of the bean and seeds and set up a diary to observe the growth over time.
• Consider what seeds need in order to be able to grow and how you can keep seeds healthy.

Activities

1. Understand what a garden is and how varied they are.
2. Design and set up a garden centre in the classroom.
3. Plant a bean seed in a bag and consider what seeds need to be able to grow.
4. Predict the outcomes of the bean seeds and set up a diary to observe the growth over time.

Investigation - observing over time
Design and set up a garden centre in the classroom.
Plant a bean in a jar and seeds in a bag and keep them in the classroom garden centre.

Vocabulary
Plant, leaf, grow, weed, change, living, water, healthy, different, seeds, garden centre