Teacher Question: How have ideas and inventions changed our lives?
The child's question "Was there winter in the olden days?" and the children's interest in food preservation has led an inquiry into why food was preserved for winter in the old days. While making strawberry jam the children expressed knowledge that strawberries grow in the summer, so then, how did we get these strawberries for our jam? Some of the children thought that maybe strawberries can grow in the winter.
This questions "Can plants grow in the winter?" is the basis of today's experiment.
The children have soaked some pea seeds and placed them in baggies - one for outside and one for inside - and have predicted whether they think they will grow or not. It was very interesting to hear the children's thinking as they made their predictions:
- Plants grow outside so the outside seeds will grow, not the inside seeds
- Plants won't grow in the cold so the inside seeds will grow, not the outside ones
We will check the seeds next week and see what's happened!
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| examining the seeds |
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| Making our predictions |
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| Checking the temperature outside |
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