Gardening With Children
Added: 29 Apr 2014
Contributor:
Scoilnet
Resource type:
Guide/notes
Information and suggested gardening projects aimed at younger children. The projects are divided between possible indoor and outdoor and cover activities like collecting and counting insects, building a wormery and painting flower pots.
How it maps to the curriculum
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plants and Animals
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- become aware of animals and plants of other environments
- become aware that animals and plants undergo seasonal change in appearance or behaviour
- explore conditions for growth of bulbs and seeds
- observe growth and change in some living things
- observe, discuss and identify a variety of plants and animals in different habitats in the immediate environment
- sort and group living things into sets
Suggestions for use: Very practical projects - just select and off you go.
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plants and Animals
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- appreciate that living things have essential needs for growth
- become familiar with the life cycles of common plants and animals
- develop some awareness of plants and animals from wider environments
- explore, through the growing of seeds, the need of plants for water and heat
- group and sort living things into sets according to certain characteristics
- investigate how plants respond to light
- observe, identify and explore a variety of living things in local habitats and environments
- recognise that trees are plants
- understand that seasonal changes occur in living things and examine the changes in plant and animal life during the different seasons
Suggestions for use: Very practical projects - just select and off you go.
