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PLANT GROWTH
Truth to Teach (Source)
1 Corinthians 3:7 ‘So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who
makes things grow.’
Matthew 13:31-32 Parable of the Mustard Seed
Matthew 13:1-23 Parable of the Sower
God is the only one who can make living things grow.
To learn that plant growth is affected by the availability of light and water, and by
temperature.
To review ways of writing up experimental work.
To learn about germination, pollination, fertilisation, seed production and seed dispersal.
Way to Work (Means)
1. Review the results of the experiments set up last week.
2. Pass around some mustard seeds then read and discuss the Parables of the Mustard Seed
and the Sower, looking at why the seeds did not grow in the latter parable.
3. Talk about the conditions of water, light and temperature needed for growth of seeds.
4. Let the children devise experiments using mustard seeds and/or broad beans to prove the
need of these conditions and let them design tables, etc to record their daily results.
5. Explain the plant life cycle. (This will also be reinforced in lesson 8)
1. Germination
4. Seed Plant 2. Pollination
dispersal
growth
3. Fertilisation and
seed production
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