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Before doing the activity with the children we have
to ensure that we have a dryer press; it can be built by the teacher
or by any volunteer parent. Only two wooden panels and some long screws
and wingnuts will be needed. The panels will have small holes to introduce
through them the screws, which will be seized with the wingnuts (similar
to the picture). Children will pick up some leaves, flowers and plants
in an excursion we organise. The teacher must point out to the children that they
only have to take one leaf of each type and must try not to hurt the
plants (they don't have to root out the plants). The teacher will bring
some cloth bags in which the children will keep the leaves and flowers
they have picked up. t's the moment to star with the sheen. First of all
we will compile information about the plants we have some samples from:
their names, what kind of plants they are (a tree, a bush or grass),
etc. The children will put the different samples on the
press, separating one from each other with absorbent paper (we can also
use pages from a newspaper). When we have all the samples in the right
place, we will press them and put them in a dry place. From time to time the children check the state of the
samples, changing the pieces of paper if necessary. When they are dry,
we will glue them on a mural, where we will also write their names.
The children will colour the distinguishing mark according to the plant
origin (print supplementary material: click
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ready, we will protect the mural with some transparent paper. |
