This simple preschool lesson plan focuses on introducing the concept of seeds to young children. The activities below will introduce children gardening through a story, a circle time activity, a literacy activity, an art activity, a math/manipulation activity, and a music and movement activity. For each activity you will find the materials, instructions and discussion starters (verbal cues). This lesson plan works well in conjunction with a daycare center unit with a gardening or science theme.
Story Time:
Read The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
Circle Time
All about Seeds
Create a seed poster by gluing a variety of seeds in groups on poster board. Label each group of seeds. Show children packet of seeds and let them feel the seeds. Explain to children that seeds become plants.
Literacy: How Plants Grow
How Plants Grow
Materials: Construction paper, black marker, crayons, colored pencils, paint
Discussion Starters: Can you tell me how a seed grow into a plant? I’m going to write your story on this paper. Can you draw a picture of how seeds grow?
Instructions: Encourage children to dictate their understanding of the process of how a seed grows and write it on the bottom of the construction paper. Ask them to illustrate their ideas.
Art
Happy Face Plants
Materials: Plastic pots, latex paint in a variety of color, potting soil, lettuce seeds
Discussion Starters: We are going to paint flower pots and put happy faces on them. We will plant seeds in the flower pot and they will grow. What color will you paint your flower pot? What will happen as we water the soil and give it proper sunlight?
Instructions: Instruct the children to paint the outside of the pot in one shade of paint. Next, let the children draw a happy face on the front of the pot in other shades of paint. Allow the paint to dry completely. Help children add soil and seeds to the pot. As children water the plant regularly, the plant will grow.
Math/Manipulation: Seed Sorting
Seed Sorting
Materials: Construction paper, 4 different types of seeds, glue
Discussion Starters: There are four types of seeds here. Which seeds are the smallest? Which seeds are largest? Let’s sort them into four piles.
Instructions: Divide a sheet of construction paper into four sections by drawing lines with a marker. Provide children with a bag of four different types of distinctly different seeds. Children will sort the seeds and glue them onto the paper, with each seed in its own individual section. After the activity is complete children can cut along the lines drawn on the paper to separate it into four individual seed cards and plant the cards in individual small flower pots.
Music and Movement
This is the Way we Plant our Seeds
Discussion Starter: This sounds like “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush.”
Instructions: teach the children “This is the way we Plant our Seeds” to the tune of “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush”.
“This is the Way We Plant Our Seeds”
This is the way we plant our seeds,
Plant our seeds, plant our seeds.
This is the way we plant our seeds,
Early in the morning.
This is the way the wind does blow,
Wind does blow, wind does blow.
This is the way the wind does blow,
Early in the morning.
This is the way the rain comes down,
Rain comes down, rain comes down.
This is the way the rain comes down,
Early in the morning.
This is the way the sun shines bright,
Sun shines bright, sun shines bright.
This is the way the sun shines bright,
Early in the morning.
This is the way the seed grows up,
Seed grows up, seed grows up.
This is the way the seed grows up,
Early in the morning.
This is the way we hoe the soil,
Hoe the soil, hoe the soil.
This is the way we hoe the soil,
Early in the morning.
This is the way we pick our beans,
Pick our beans, pick our beans.
This is the way we pick our beans,
Early in the morning.
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