Foundation Stage : Curriculum Topics : Water at Home : Lesson Five – Gardens
This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to investigate and record how to use water to grow a range of plants and flowers in a garden. The class try using water to grow a runner bean or a sunflower plant in the school garden.
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Learning Objectives
Answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about their experiences and in response to events. Talk about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another.
Learning Outcomes
I can answer questions about how and why something happens. I can identify uses of water in a garden.
Gardens
Teaching sequence to help the children investigate and record how to use water to grow a range of plants and flowers in a garden
Garden Jobs
Display posters for whole class discussion to help the class identify and describe different ways of using water in a garden to complete different jobs
Growing Plants
Template to help the children identify and record how to grow a plant in a garden using water tools and equipment
Flower Hunt
Activity to get the children find and count different plants and flowers in the school grounds using a pictogram to record the information
Gardens
Interactive activity to help the children investigate and record how to use water to grow a range of plants and flowers in a garden
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to investigate and record how to use water to grow a range of plants and flowers in a garden
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