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Mrs.
Potato
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Caring
- Observation
- Enjoyment
of Nature activities
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The teacher will bring several potatoes to the classroom.
He/she will show the potatoes to the children, and will let them to
touch and smell the potatoes, to compare their sizes and colours, etc.
Then he/she will ask:
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Who likes potatoes?
- How
does your parents cook them?
- How
often do you eat potatoes?
- Any
of you know where the potatoes are grown up?
As you can see, potatoes are very important in our
lives; everybody likes them, and there are a lot of ways to cook them.
Some experiments to observe the growth of the potatoes:
- We
place a potato over a recipient full of water, in such a way that
the potato is in contact with the water. Then we place the whole thing
in a dark and cool place (somewhere like a wardrobe). We will have
to observe the changes as the time goes by. After a few days the potato
will have some roots; at this very moment we will have to plant it.
A child will water it each day. If our school doesn't have a small
orchard, we can plant it in a wooden drawer in the playground.
- Labyrinth:
we prepare a cardboard box with a hole in the upper cover (light will
enter through it). Inside the box we will built a kind of stairs made
with cardboard. Inside the box, at the bottom, we will place a potato
that has shoots. Each day we will observe the growth of the potato
and we will notice that the small branch has grown up sorting the
steps, looking for light.
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