Lesson Five – Gardens
This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to investigate, describe and record how to use water to grow a range of plants and flowers when working in a family garden.
The class explain and model how to use water to grow a runner bean or a sunflower plant in the school garden over a number of weeks during the spring or summer seasons.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate, describe and record how to use water to grow a range of plants and flowers when working in a family garden
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe different ways of using water in a garden to complete different jobs, a template to record how to grow a plant in a garden using water tools and equipment and a worksheet to find and count different plants and flowers in the school grounds using a pictogram to record the information.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record how to use water to grow a range of plants and flowers in a garden.
This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to investigate and describe different sources and uses of water at home by families to understand its importance in the world. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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