Stage One: How Plants Grow Activity Plan
Introduction to How Plants Grow
In this activity plan you will learn about teaching garden and plants vocabulary and associating growing and plants with movement and sound. The activities include expressive mime, movement to music, playing musical instruments and project activities.
Below are a list of aims and materials that will be required for this lesson.
| Language Aims | Vocabulary: seed, ground, leaves, sun, rain, big, small, green, brown, yellow, gardener. Learning about plants growing. Speaking in chorus. |
| Performance Aims | Expressive movement and mime. Using musical instruments to create mood and atmosphere. |
| Materials required for this activity | a pot, a bag of planting soil, some fast-growing seeds, water. |
Tips for using this Activity Plan. Notes about timing:
- With any improvisation activities, it is hard to be exact about timing as the children may get very involved and want to continue for longer, or may not respond as you expected. However as a rough guideline, you could spend approximately 15 minutes on each activity. With very young learners it is better to do a little and often.
- When rehearsing for a performance, spend at least one lesson making sure everyone knows where to move and when.
- For Trinity Stage One, performances should last from 5-15 minutes.
Getting started..
These concepts will be introduced over the following sections of the activity plan. To begin click on the next button at the bottom of the page.