Lesson Plans - Growing beans LT-A2.3

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LESSON PLAN: GROWING BEANS (LEVEL A)

Attainment target:	ISE code
Give the conditions needed by animals and plants in order to remain healthy	LT-A2.3

Pupils understand that:

Carrying out Task

Pupils:

thinking through the various consequences for living things and for the environment of different choices, decisions and courses of action.

VOCABULARY

SEED, BEANS, WATER, COMPOST, GROWING

Planned Activities

Activity	Organisation	Resources	Questions
Read 'Jasper's Beanstalk' and discuss	whole class	Jasper's Beanstalk by Mick Inkpen	What tells you Jasper is going to do some gardening? What is he doing? What did Jasper need? What did he do?
Discuss with pupils plan for planting of bean seeds	whole class	beans, flipchart	Where is the water going to come from? What else would it need? What else would we need to plant a bean? What are we going to do next? What do we do to it at the window?
Pupils plant seeds	groups	pots, compost, seeds, trowels	What is the first thing we should do? How much do you need? How much water do you need?

Strategies

INTERACTIVE - TEACHING LEARNING

PLANNING FOR IMPROVEMENT - SCHOOL AUTHORITY -BASED APPROACHES

DEVELOPING - SKILLS UNDERSTANDING

OUTWITH THE CLASSROOM

RAISING ETHICAL ISSUES

HEALTH AND SAFETY

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