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Gardening Workshops
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KS1/KS2 ACTIVITIES
HEALTHY PLANTS, HEALTHY PEOPLE
Plants and vegetables.
Lunchbox investigation! What comes from plants grown on a farm or in a garden?
What are the different parts of a plant and what do they all do?
Construction exercise in teams to ‘build’ a plant.
Meet our worms and find out what they do to help us make the soil good for growing.
Fun quiz boards to learn which animals and insects are ‘Friend or Pest’.
Try samples of typical foodstuffs from the farm/garden (bread squares, carrot sticks).
Grow your own vegetable, in our potting shed, to take home!
Finally, take a tractor and trailer ride around the farm to see the crops growing.
Curriculum
Links
Sc2, Sc3 a, b, c, d
Learning
Objectives
To know what the different parts of a plant are.
To learn how to plant seeds and how to take care of plants.
To learn what plants need to survive.
To be introduced to different plant words and concepts.
To understand the importance of plants.
To identify the benefits of including plants as party of a healthy diet.