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Task - Growing seeds into plants for class vegetable garden
====Over the next four weeks students will plant different vegetable seeds and will care for them daily to learn about the needs of plants and plant life cycles. This task requires the student to work in teams of three or four, and your teacher will divide you into your teams. In the beginning, you will learn about plants and their structures and how all living things have needs, that are essential for them to grow. You will learn how seeds germinate into seedlings, what needs seeds require in order to germinate, and what environment seedlings require to thrive and how to transfer the seedlings into the class vegetable garden. Your teacher will give each group a different vegetable seed to plant. In this way, by the end of the four weeks, your class will have a bountiful supply of different vegetable seedlings and they will grow into a mass of lovely vegetables for you to take home and eat with your family.====

====Every day you will need to tend to your seeds providing water and ensuring they are receiving sunlight, and you will make notes in a journal by making drawings of what you observe happening to your seeds. You will also take photos with the class digital camera to record your seed growth.The seeds will need to be tended to for over two weeks in order for them to germinate into seedlings, and then once they are big and strong enough, we will plant them in our class vegetable garden at the end of four weeks.==== ====In your groups you will use your drawings and photos to make a poster of the lifecycle of the plant, and then present your findings to your classmates as a team. After your team has completed your presentation to the class, your poster will be hung around the classroom, and your parents will be invited to view your poster. A class photo with your posters will also be taken, showing all your hard work and possibly published in the school newsletter.====



Possible Variations -
Students can learn about the similarities of the essential needs and life cycles of plants, to the needs and lifecycles of people. In each group, students can plant several seeds and treat each seed differently ie water and sunshine, water only and dark environment, sunshine with no water and observe the differences in seed germination and plant growth. This can also be linked to people and nutrition based on food, water and environment.

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