Here’s an idea from the blogs that might be a good Key to the Living World: Plant Life project. Today Make: Crafts featured Crumbbums.com who have a DIY Growing Jar.
You may also like Sprouts and Plant Life.
Posted in Key to STEM, Key to the Living World, tagged jar, Plant Life, Plants, seed sprouts, sprouts on September 5, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Here’s an idea from the blogs that might be a good Key to the Living World: Plant Life project. Today Make: Crafts featured Crumbbums.com who have a DIY Growing Jar.
You may also like Sprouts and Plant Life.
Posted in Key to the Living World, Songs & Games, tagged Cat Grass, games, growing sprouts, Meeting plan, Plants on May 5, 2011| 2 Comments »
April 26 was all about plants. (Well, mostly – our games were not so plant oriented). We had two plants to plant in different ways, and one experiment.
Notes: I attribute the success of this meeting to (1) Planning and pre-cutting and sorting; and (2) Tall narrow freezer bags (not the zip tops, but the twist tie ones). Bags? Yes, Bags. By putting each project into a baggie after it was finished, it was possible to send the girls home with three separate projects without major spills or wobbly trays. These are the half quart sized – so narrow and tall.
6:30 Arrival Game – What time is it Mr. Wolf?
6:40 Circle Time
6:45 Brownie Ring
6:50 Program
Discussion: What do plants need to grow? What makes things grow?
Celery Experiment
Supplies: Plastic Cups, Celery cut up into stalks, Water, Food colouring, Plastic Bag
Then Game while we set up for the next – Something for Easter
Plant Cat Grass in Pots
Supplies: Cat Grass Seeds, Plant Pots ($0.34 at WalMart), Soil.
Then another game while we set up for the next.
Grow Sprouts in Jars
Supplies: Mung Bean Seeds, jars (I had baby food jars but bigger is better), Cheese Cloth, Elastics
http://www.i4at.org/lib2/sprouts.htm
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Growing_Edible_Sprouts/Jars
Then another game while we cleaned up.
7:45 – Campfire and Close
Reading: The Garden – from Dragon Sleep Deprived…
Green Grass Song
And that was it. A simple, fun meeting that required a bit of shopping, but not really a lot of work.
Posted in Key to STEM, Key to the Living World, tagged growing sprouts, Plants on February 9, 2011| 2 Comments »
We struggle with activities that require time to set because our meeting space has very limited storage and there is no place for us to leave things for the next week. Glue, paint, or anything that needs to dry or grow just don’t work well for us. We still do them, but have to be picky.
So plant sprouting is a bit of an issue. But this might be a great way to show kids how to grow sprouts at home. From Re-Nest.com: How to Make Sprouts from Lentils.
Any thoughts?