Love Food? Love Seeds! - Growing Seeds

EYLF Learning Outcomes:

Learning Outcome 2:

• Children are connected with and contribute to their world
• 2.4 Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment

Learning Outcome 4:

• Children are confident and involved learners
• 4.1 Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
• 4.2 Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem-solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
• 4.4 Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials

Learning Outcome 5:

• Children are effective communicators
• 5.1 Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes

Ages 0 – 2:

• You will need four or five small planting tubs filled with soil, a class set of gardening gloves, as well as equipment to label the tubes. You will also need as many seeds as you have tubs (quick germinating seeds include watermelons, beans, peas, zucchini and pumpkin – check your local nursery). You should choose just one type of seed to plant. Alternatively, you could choose to sprout seeds in a jar. 

Ages 3 to 5:

• You will need at least ten small planting tubs (unfilled) and soil, a class set of gardening gloves, as well as equipment to label the tubes. You will also need as many seeds as you have tubs (quick germinating seeds include watermelons, beans, peas, zucchini and pumpkin – check your local nursery). You should choose just one type of seed to plant. Alternatively, you could choose to sprout seeds in a jar. 
• Optional – Plant Life Cycle Factsheet

This lesson has been created in partnership with ACT for Bees. ACT for Bees is a not-for-profit organisation taking action to preserve these essential pollinators, ensuring a food-secure future.