Tuesday 29 May 2012

Function of a dandelion

Line of Inquiry: How people/animals use plants

Yesterday we used Google Maps to locate the schools neighbourhood and the children used the Smart Board to identify where they have found dandelions.
This is where I find dandelions!
Today we continued our research "What eats dandelions?" and explored the function of dandelions: a food source. The children took turns suggesting animals they thought might eat dandelions and we looked for evidence in video on Youtube and saw bears, deer, rabbit, squirrel, people and horses eating dandelions. We could find no evidence of unicorns or dinosaurs eating dandelions!
Tracing the word 'food'

A finished web
The children organized their knowledge on a web.

We went outside and enjoyed the sounds of nature and big space to paint a field of dandelions!


2 comments:

  1. What fun! We'll keep searching for evidence of dragons. We can't give up that easily.

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  2. That's great The children had another question that we couldn't find the answer to; do dogs eat dandelions? We've decided that we will survey dog owners as they pass by our play space in the woods in the morning and ask them our question

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