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Experiential Learning
                                •      Take a wooden box and fill it with sand. Keep the sand

                                       moist and plant the following plants without seeds.
               Fun with                An onion bulb, a portion of a sugarcane stem with a joint,

               Learning                and a bulb of a lily.

                                       Observe them for a few days and note how much time is
                                       taken by each one of the above to grow into new plants.

             •      If you were a gardener, which part of a plant would you                     Logical Thinking

                    plant to grow a new :

                    1.  rice plant?                ________   2.  rose plant?                         ________

                    3.  onion plant?               ________   4.  ginger plant?                       ________

                    5.  sweet potato plant?        ________   6.  bryophyllum plant?                  ________

             •  The table below contains words that have been chopped in                             Sequencing

                  half. Find the pieces that fit together and write them in the
                  answer area.

                             see                   nation                cotyl               dis


                             edons                 bryo                  repro               light


                             sion                  persal                explo               dling

                             duction               phyllum               sun                 germi


             Answers  _____________                        _____________                 _____________

                            _____________                 _____________                  _____________


                            _____________                 _____________


             •  Take a walk around your home, a garden or a park, observe
                  the different types of seeds that you see. Make a report on the                      Research

                  types of seeds you saw.

              Fun Activity


              Collect different seeds from your kitchen (like, rice, beans, and mustard) and

            make a seed collage on paper to create a plant design.





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