Garden centres and seeds

Provided Resources

• Different gardens resource
• Examples of classroom garden centres
• How to grow a bean in a bag
• My bean in a bag diary

Additional Resources

• Things for setting up a garden centre in the classroom - small plants, role play cakes, till, baskets, plastic food, paper, pens, card for signs etc.
• Dried bean seeds & paper towels
• Stapler & ruler
• Plastic bag (the A4 sized kind which seals at the top works best)

Weblinks
Lowden Garden Centre from www.YouTube.com
Information video for teachers on sprouting bean seeds from www.YouTube.com
Time lapse video of a sprouting bean seed (3.26 mins) from www.YouTube.com

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