All From a Seed: ACTIVITY

BF2-U5-L8

ALL FROM A SEED

Topic: Big Fun 2, Unit 5, Lesson 8; PLANTS

Audience: +5yo, Group or VIP class

Est Time: 20 mins

Supplies: Markers, three large sheets of paper, fruit tree pictures

PROCEDURE:

-Show students pictures of full-grown fruit trees and bare seeds explaining how one grows from the other.

-To illustrate the concept, on a large sheet of paper, draw a layer of dirt along the bottom and a seed beneath it.

-Draw the seed again, this time with a small sprout coming from it, explaining to the class what the first stages of a fruit tree's development look like.

-Draw one more stage before letting the student beside you draw the next version.

-Let the process continue around the table with each student drawing the next stage of he trees growth, adding flowers, then small fruit, then large. (And growing the root system.)

-Once the paper has been covered, continue the process on a second.

-By the end of the second sheet, the tree should have all of its features.

-On the final sheet, draw a single, fully developed tree large enough to cover it.

VARIATIONS:

-Give students smaller pieces of paper, having each of them draw a different phase of development. (Each doing two or three as necessary.) Once complete, mix up the pieces and have students work together to properly arrange the stages.

-If limited on time, draw all of the stages beforehand, (on separate pieces of paper), involving the students only with the arrangement phase.

MAKING THE CONNECTION:

-Review the relationship between seeds, fruit and fruit tress beforehand.

-Manage the process throughout the stages assuring that the different characteristics are added at the appropriate stages, explaining the significance of each.

-Do another review at the end, using the drawings to illustrate the key sentence, "Plants grown from seeds."

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