Today's Classroom Activities :

Planting a Seed

Sprouting Seeds
Science Prepare some clear plastic bags with a small amount of soil and have the children place two seeds of the same kind in each bag. Try various seeds such as pumpkin, bean, marigold, etc. Number the bags. Apply a couple of drops of water to each bag and then staple them to a bulletin board that gets sun. Keep records as to the number of days before sprouting is seen, days when water is added (with eye droppers), bags that don't require as much water, etc. Graph your findings and transplant seedlings as they become ready.

Inside a Seed
Students will look inside seeds to discover the beginning of a plant, and will discuss elements that plants need to grow.

Grow baby plants from all kinds of supermarket seeds with Out! Out! Damp Sprout! by Vicki Cobb, Education World Science Editor.

Discover how The Edible Schoolyard, in collaboration with Martin Luther King Junior Middle School, provides urban public school students with a one-acre organic garden and a kitchen classroom.

Read about Lynne Cherry in Digging in the Dirt and find out how this accomplished author/illustrator and environmental activist has set her sights on a new goal - a garden in every schoolyard.