What do plants need to grow?
Download and reference Kindergarten: Bears Through the Season teacher guide (link to teacher guide) pages 154-157 and student guide (link to student guide) pages 96-99 for full lesson plan.
List of Materials
- Book: Plants Can’t Sit Still by Rebecca E. Hirsch
- Soil and pots for growing seeds
- Seeds from native plants from MDC, see MDC Teacher Portal for details. (Please reserve at least 4 weeks prior to conducting this lesson. Seedlings are available from September to April; reserve early for best selection.)
- Measurement materials (linking cubes, centimeter cubes, or other appropriate measurement tool)
- Student Guide and pencil
Estimated Time
2 hours
- Engage: 30 minutes
- Explore: 15 minutes
- Explain: 30 minutes
- Elaborate: 30 minutes + 10 minutes x 6 days (observations once a week)
- Evaluate: 15 minutes
Lesson Extensions
Cross-Curricular Extensions
Write and illustrate a story about your growing plant seedling and how it lives day to day. Does it receive what it needs to survive? If so, what will it look like at the end? Is it missing something that it needs? If so, what is it missing and what will it look like at the end of the story?
Standards
Topic
Plant Needs
Missouri Learning Standard
Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCI)
Science and Engineering Practices (SEP)
Crosscutting Concepts (CCC)